The battery life on Apples new 3G iPhone isnt great, but it beats that of other 3G smartphones weve seen. PC Worlds Test Center ran it through our standard talk-time battery life test, and found that on average it ran 5 hours and 38 minutes, which we consider to be fair.
Thats a big tumble from the superior performance of the original iPhone, which ran on AT&Ts slower EDGE network and lasted the maximum 10 hours of our test. But the 3G iPhone beat out the rest of the current 3G smartphone pack, most of which fell shy of the 5-hour mark thats the cutoff between a word score of fair and poor in our performanceratings.
Of other handsets that support AT&Ts HSDPA/UMTS network, only the HTC Touch Dual came close, with average talk time of 5 hours, 18 minutes. The AT the Motorola Q9 Global at 4:43; and the Palm Treo 750 at an abysmal 3:53. The iPhone 3G also beat out competitors on Sprint and Verizons EVDO mobile broadband networks, including the Palm Centro (4:19) and the Samsung Instinct (5:33).
Power-Hungry Networks
3G networks in general are notorious power drains, but the network type used by AT&T is particularly power-hungry since voice calls use the same mobile broadband network as data tasks. In contrast, the EVDO technology on which Sprint and Verizon base their 3G networks supports data only; voice uses older CDMA networks, which (in theory at least) use less power.
The good news for AT Sprint and Verizon users cannot simultaneously do both.
And the good news for 3G iPhone owners is that theyre probably better off than other 3G handset owners in terms of battery life. But that wont help when your 3G iPhone stops running at the end of a long and busy day.
Thats a big tumble from the superior performance of the original iPhone, which ran on AT&Ts slower EDGE network and lasted the maximum 10 hours of our test. But the 3G iPhone beat out the rest of the current 3G smartphone pack, most of which fell shy of the 5-hour mark thats the cutoff between a word score of fair and poor in our performanceratings.
Of other handsets that support AT&Ts HSDPA/UMTS network, only the HTC Touch Dual came close, with average talk time of 5 hours, 18 minutes. The AT the Motorola Q9 Global at 4:43; and the Palm Treo 750 at an abysmal 3:53. The iPhone 3G also beat out competitors on Sprint and Verizons EVDO mobile broadband networks, including the Palm Centro (4:19) and the Samsung Instinct (5:33).
Power-Hungry Networks
3G networks in general are notorious power drains, but the network type used by AT&T is particularly power-hungry since voice calls use the same mobile broadband network as data tasks. In contrast, the EVDO technology on which Sprint and Verizon base their 3G networks supports data only; voice uses older CDMA networks, which (in theory at least) use less power.
The good news for AT Sprint and Verizon users cannot simultaneously do both.
And the good news for 3G iPhone owners is that theyre probably better off than other 3G handset owners in terms of battery life. But that wont help when your 3G iPhone stops running at the end of a long and busy day.
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