While Apple claims the device gets up to five hours of battery life--just about enough for a cross-country flight, provided you're not delayed--the inability to replace the battery on the go could be a problem for hard-core road warriors, who pop batteries into their machines the way a long-distance trucker gobbles amphetamines.

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During my trip this month, I took long-distance road trips across Tamil Nadu, Kerala, and Uttar Pradesh, and this core character of India was readily apparent.

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Despite the low pixel count however, there's an unspecified 1.2GHz quad-core processor beating away inside, running Android 4.1, which suggests that the phone should go the distance, at least performance-wise.

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