Eric Smith wrote in yesterday wondering whether Apple had done anything about the rather poor battery life of the iPod , which dwindles from about ten or eleven hours on purchase to about under an hr or two a year subsequently . Well it ’s not clear whether or not they ’ve corrected the problem with the new iPods , but Belkin has done something about it and derive out with a Backup Battery Pack for the iPod that work out with rechargeable or regular AA batteries and total about fifteen to twenty hours of life .
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UPDATE : Sanford May writes in that the iPod ’s electric battery problem was , “ a firmware problem , not a battery life problem . One of the interim firmware releases broke the world power direction computer software on the iPod . They fix it . Only a slender few iPod develop real battery life problems and those are handled under warranty during the first year . So , yeah , the battery life story is ready in the unexampled iPods , but it ’s also fixed in ALL iPods for those who bother to download the late microcode rising slope . ”
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