You got it wrong friend. I've participated in some other conversations
here, but nothing about batteries. I might have commented in longer
threads that discussed batteries, but my comments haven't been specific
to batteries until now.

And my comment here was directly related to the claim B. Peg made about
 "it's life expectancy is only one year anyhoo." Granted he was talking
about the phone itself, but the overall thread was about it lacking a
battery compartment. I'm just saying that if the phone still works after
a year, and you don't need the "latest and greatest model" and the
battery still works as good as when you got it, what's the big deal
about having a replaceable battery?

I suppose all of you replaceable battery advocates drive around in cars
with replaceable gas tanks too? No you don't. You just fill them up when
you need to. Same thing applies here.

As for how long it lasts in a DAY: Personally, I've had my gen 1 iPhone
play a movie and several lengthy podcasts on a Phoenix to Philly
airplane flight. I've sat in a Phoenix courthouse from 9:00 am to 4:30
pm on jury duty (waiting, didn't get picked) and the phone lasted the
whole day e-mailing friends and listening to podcasts. I was
hospitalized in March for a week (Thursday to Thursday). Used the phone
to send text messages to friends and relatives on my progress. Listened
to a few podcasts, and took several calls. Charged it only once on the
Wednesday before coming home.

No, the battery charge doesn't last forever, but it lasts longer than
the BlackBerry (with replaceable batteries...) issued to me from my
employer. And it seems to charge much faster as well.

For you N800 guys, Walmart wants too much for a 2nd battery:
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5425100

http://www.pricegrabber.com/user_sales_getprod.php?masterid=8509352
&lot_id=7395788
I bought mine cheap from this guy.  They are real OEM batteries, but are
good pullouts for a lot less money.  The 3 I got had been in a phone as
you can see the marks on the contacts, but the batteries are in fine
condition and one cycle in my charger below brought them back up great.  
They even came fully charged, probably from the seller's battery tester.

USPS shipping was about $4 bringing it here for under $20, not $45 at
Wally World.

I play a lot of movies and stream TV from WorldTV99's playlist in
KMplayer/mplayer at high bit rates.  This eats the N800 at full display
brightness and loud audio in about 4-5 hours.  Just kick out the dead
horse and pop in the new one and we're back online for the rest of the
day...charging the dead horse back up in the drop-in charger in the car
upon arrival.

I also bought 5 of these at $2/each from the UK:
http://tinyurl.com/6mubwd

http://cgi.ebay.com/DESKTOP-BATTERY-CHARGER-FOR-NOKIA-BP-5L-E61-N92-9500
_W0QQitemZ120283559161QQihZ002QQcategoryZ20368QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQc
mdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1638Q2em122

They charge the battery, then when the battery's onboard IC says full,
shut down completely dousing the light to tell you it's charged.  Even
on the car cord, they charge the battery back up in about 1.5 hours from
dead.

The spare battery charges from any of my N800 charging cords, AC or DC,
in the car or on my desk while I'm off with the other one.  Using these,
and they ARE so cheap, you never have to actually charge the tablet at
all on its tether.  

Solutions not excuses....(c;

OK - on Ebay other External Batteries for the iPhone are available,
and typically sell for under $10

Interesting point.

Apple's been in the cellular phone business for only a couple years and
has had all of TWO products on the market for only a little over a year.
And most of that time they only sold in the US and a select few other
countries.

Nokia's been selling mobile phones and various communications devices
since the mid-1960's. And they sell in about every country in the world.
I can't find exact numbers, but they have to have sold hundreds of
millions of units since then.