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 hour or two a year later. 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 come out with a Backup Battery Pack for the iPod that works with rechargeable or regular AA batteries and adds about fifteen to twenty hours of life.
UPDATE: Sanford May writes in that the iPod’s battery problem was, “a firmware problem, not a battery life problem. One of the interim firmware releases broke the power management software on the iPod. They fixed it. Only a slim few iPods develop real battery life problems and those are handled under warranty during the first year. So, yeah, the battery life is fixed in the new iPods, but it’s also fixed in ALL iPods for those who bother to download the latest firmware upgrade.”
