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If the iPhone had shipped with 3G you'd have about one hour of battery life.

3G is pretty widespread now on EU phones and the battery life on those isn't as bad as you make out. My N95 has WiFi, Bluetooth and 3G on and the battery life is fine.

There also a few Windows based phones where the 3G version has pretty much the same battery life as the 2.5G one.

In fact the HTC 730 actually has a longer standby time when using 3G as compared to 2.5G (though it does have a shorter talk time).


Standby time:

Up to 290 hours for GSM
Up to 388 hours for UMTS

Talk time:

Up to 318 minutes for GSM
Up to 210 minutes for UMTS

The 2.5G version of the same phone, the HTC 710, has a standby time of only 175 hours, so it looks like while adding 3G they also managed to increase the efficiency of the 2.5G radio.
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