Not really. My HTC Titan has 3G, and while it probably has less battery life than an iPhone, I plug it in every night when I get home. Ohhh... that was hard to do. add approximately 2 seconds to my process of setting it down on the dresser to also plug it in at the same time. Then when I wake up, imagine that, it's charged!! As long as you can make a full days worth of battery then I could care less. The rest is just people whining about numbers. The only time my phone doesn't last a full day is when I use it as a GPS becuase that drains battery with the bluetooth connection and if I'm using Google Maps or Live Search, it will probably go through at least 20mb of data on a fairly small trip if I turn on the aerial view (which is pretty cool when you see your dot on the same road as you).
Lets be simple here, Apple didn't add it because they wanted to be able to produce a 3g iPhone in a couple of months and get all the suckers to buy it again. The battery life crap is BS, because if that were really the case, they could have added an option in the settings for the data network to be "off, save battery, or full speed" and let you flip between data off, EDGE, and HSPA. That would have been a VERY simple way, not to mention the way tons of other phones work, in allowing the consumer to choose what's important to them at the moment, battery or internet speed.
If you really believe that Apple did it just for battery life, you're blind to Apple's marketing. Their marketing is pretty crappy for consumers, but it works amazing for them. They've created products that people will re-buy if they just come out in a new color. It's genius on their part, but makes the general public look like sheep following their master.
“Measuring 21.5 inches each, with 1920 x 1080 resolution, 1,000:1 contrast ratio, and optical multitouch technology under their chunky bezels, these two models represent the biggest mainstream push for touchscreen computing yet.”
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Not really. My HTC Titan has 3G, and while it probably has less battery life than an iPhone, I plug it in every night when I get home. Ohhh... that was hard to do. add approximately 2 seconds to my process of setting it down on the dresser to also plug it in at the same time. Then when I wake up, imagine that, it's charged!! As long as you can make a full days worth of battery then I could care less. The rest is just people whining about numbers. The only time my phone doesn't last a full day is when I use it as a GPS becuase that drains battery with the bluetooth connection and if I'm using Google Maps or Live Search, it will probably go through at least 20mb of data on a fairly small trip if I turn on the aerial view (which is pretty cool when you see your dot on the same road as you).
Lets be simple here, Apple didn't add it because they wanted to be able to produce a 3g iPhone in a couple of months and get all the suckers to buy it again. The battery life crap is BS, because if that were really the case, they could have added an option in the settings for the data network to be "off, save battery, or full speed" and let you flip between data off, EDGE, and HSPA. That would have been a VERY simple way, not to mention the way tons of other phones work, in allowing the consumer to choose what's important to them at the moment, battery or internet speed.
If you really believe that Apple did it just for battery life, you're blind to Apple's marketing. Their marketing is pretty crappy for consumers, but it works amazing for them. They've created products that people will re-buy if they just come out in a new color. It's genius on their part, but makes the general public look like sheep following their master.