Apple iPhone 3G battery life 'best'. But still bad

by Julian Prokaza
on Mon 14 Jul 2008 2 Comments

Our friends over at the PC World Test Center have determined that the iPhone 3G’s battery life is just 5 hours 38 minutes – but still better than that of the competition.

During tests connecting the iPhone 3G to AT&T’s HSDPA/UMTS network, PC World’s tech guys determined that users of Apple’s 1m-selling handset could natter away for that amount of time before the power cells would flake out.

That compares badly with the original iPhone’s ability to manage 10 hours during similar tests on EDGE carried out by PC World last year. But the surprise news is that, even at a semi over 5 hours, the iPhone 3G’s battery performance is better than the competition. Yep, we said better. Read on after the cut to find out how much better.

Not very much better, is the answer. HTC’s Touch Dual, for example, managed 5 hours and 18 minutes’ talktime. Mind you, pity those poor folks with a Palm Treo 750 – they see just 3 hours and 53 minutes’ worth of talktime, according to PC World’s tests.

Certainly these results tally with our brief experience with the iPhone 3G: per charge, we’ve barely managed more than 5 hours’ active use out of our review model. And more on that soon.

[ PC World]

Originally published on www.mobilecomputermag.co.uk, now incorporated into Broadband Genie
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  • neutral

    by at 01:17 on 15 Jul 2008Report abuse

    iPhone detection by websites in Safari on the iPhone is denying us theREAL INTERNET!Apple promised me the REAL INTERNET in Safari on the iPhone. Websitesare taking that away from us with these stupid sites that detect theiPhone and redirect away from what I'm trying to do online. It isEXCEEDINGLY AGGRAVATING. There needs to be some way to keep them fromdoing that.If I want to go to Jirbo.com's regular site on my iPhone in Safari, Ishould have that choice. The site should surface a dialog asking"iPhone or Regular Web?" But no, no go. Go to that site yourself iniPhone and try, I dare you, try to click the Contact link to get tothe contact form. It redirects. And there's no equivalent given forthe iPhone.PLEASE, Apple, hear us, do something right away about this before itgets out of control! I'm at a cafe and I have to go HOME to browse asite because of this? Terrible!

  • neutral

    by at 08:31 on 15 Jul 2008Report abuse

    Sure the battery on iPhone 3G is not that great, but what can we do? We want small size phones, powerful features and lengthy battery life.Just get a backup battery.

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