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iPhone 3G Battery Life Not Great, But Better Than Most

Monday July 14, 2008 11:59 am PDT by Arnold Kim


PCWorld has performed some real-life battery testing on the Apple iPhone 3G and found that while its battery is worse than the original iPhone, it still beats many of its competitors.

In their tests, they found that the talk time ran for an average of 5 hours and 38 minutes as compared to 10 hours in their tests for the original iPhone. 5 hours and 38 minutes was enough to best the other 3G phones in their testing (see graph above).

The results, however, have been criticized due to the omission of the 3G Blackberry.
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cloudnine
Posted: 50 months ago
I think it's funny that they neglected to include "Previous Version iPhone" in their little bar graph :P
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AaronHeth
Posted: 50 months ago

I think it's funny that they neglected to include "Previous Version iPhone" in their little bar graph :P


Yes, but it's a graph of 3G phones.
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KaiMac
Posted: 50 months ago
Uh, I'll stick with the Al iPhone on 2.0 software.
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xix
Posted: 50 months ago

Uh, I'll stick with the Al iPhone on 2.0 software.


You read my mind, friend.
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shadowfax
Posted: 50 months ago
you can always use the 3G iphone in edge mode and have more talk time than the original...
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rush0
Posted: 50 months ago
I don't buy it
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mrJnC
Posted: 50 months ago
I always find these sort of tests misleading as Li-Ion batteries require a good number of charge cycles before they become consistent. On the original iPhone it took about two weeks IIRC for the operational time to stabilize, improving upon each cycle.
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brockumpodness
Posted: 50 months ago
That's saying that the 3G iPhone using a ***3G*** Network has less batt. life than an older iPhone on the other network. If you want to make a good comparison, use the 3G on the non-3G network and you will see that *The 3G has Better batt. life than the older one using the old network (period).* Good day.
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Aznsensation45
Posted: 50 months ago

That's saying that the 3G iPhone using a ***3G*** Network has less batt. life than an older iPhone on the other network. If you want to make a good comparison, use the 3G on the non-3G network and you will see that *The 3G has Better batt. life than the older one using the old network (period).* Good day.



Touche my friend.:)
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Surely
Posted: 50 months ago

That's saying that the 3G iPhone using a ***3G*** Network has less batt. life than an older iPhone on the other network. If you want to make a good comparison, use the 3G on the non-3G network and you will see that *The 3G has Better batt. life than the older one using the old network (period).* Good day.


Proof? (Besides saying that Apple says so)
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