At 14 Jul 2008 14:34:22 -0700 4phun wrote:
> This is a hoot with all the wannabe experts saying that the 3G iPhone
> sucks because of its little built in battery.

No, that aspect of it's design sucks because of the little NON-SWAPPABLE
battery.


You seem awfully chipper pointing to a chart from an article titled: "3G
iPhone's Mediocre Battery Life Still Beats Rivals..."

http://www.pcworld.com/article/148348/

(Of course, you only linked to the chart - not to the less-than-glowing
article that spawned it. Hmmm....) *

> Weekend tech tests show the 3G iPhone little battery has the best
> battery life of all 3G phones!

No, it had the best battery life of the TEN smartphones PC World tested and
put in the chart. No Nokia phone is listed, 3G "dumphones" like the Moto
Razrs aren't listed, and I don't see any Blackberries. My wife's work-
issued Blackberry runs so damn long compared to our WinMo phones, I've
always suspected RIM has mastered Cold Fusion and just never told anyone...


> It even beats Sprint's Instinct which
> is a less power hungry network for voice calls.!
>
> Ha HA Boo Hah


By about five minutes. Very impressive.


> Here is the offical chart to view at your leisure...

Oh, let's fix that link for you, 4phun:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/148348/

So the iPhone's battery life sucks a little less than the other phones
tested. Wheee...

PC World said of that stellar performance: "the 3G iPhone beat out therest
of the current 3G smart-phone pack, most of which fell shy of the 5-hour
mark that's the cutoff between a word score of Fair and one of Poor inour
performance ratings."

Wow. The iPhone's battery life is "fair" instead of "poor." I wonderif
Apple will add that to the brochure?

My AT&T Tilt's battery life (coming in nearly an hour shorter than the
iPhone's on that chart) is absolutely terrible. (Or should I say 'poor'?)
I REALLY feel for the owners of the five phones on the chart that the Tilt
beat. Hopefully those phones come with an external batery pack- maybe
something along the lines of a backpack with a 12V deep-cycle marine
battery in it! ;-)

Looking at the chart you linked, I should be thrilled with the Tilt's
battery life- it's 80+% of the iPhone's! If that's the case, the iPhone
would get maybe 15 hours of life from my usage pattern compared to the12
my Tilt gets. Wheeee...

PC World summed it up with: "the good news for 3G iPhone owners is that
they're probably better off than other 3G handset owners in terms of
battery life. But that won't help when your 3G iPhone stops running atthe
end of a long and busy day."