Apple hit by lawsuit over iPhone batteries

Published: July 30, 2007, 4:19 am

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Filed under: Consumer experience, Apple Inc (AAPL), Marketing and advertising, AT and T (T)Apparently some people who bought the Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) iPhone believe that the company misled them about the battery in the handset. For some time most consumers believed that the power source could be replaced by getting a new battery at an AT&T (NYSE: T) store or over the internet. But the iPhone is no ordinary handset. The battery is built-in and cannot be replaced by customers Aside from the lawsuit, a group called Foundation for Consumer and Taxpayer Rights claims that Apple mislead consumers. Although some news sources wrote that the battery could not be replaced by users, Business 2.0 writes that Apple may not have made it clear that the battery would have to be replaced by AT&T until after the phone was launched. So, Apple gets a class action suit and some complaints. It is hard to believe that the legal action will prevail. Since the battery is sealed in the phone, the

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