The iPhone 3G has been the best phone I have ever used in my life! It replaces multiple devices into one! It is basically my little handheld computer!

After participating in multiple iPhone 3G forums on battery life, I don’t see anything from Apple or users what they are actually getting in standby times and usage times. Along with a few software bugs in 2.0, this is by far one of the biggest issues that is affecting a lot iPhone owners.    

Now, I know the iPhone 3G uses up a lot more power than the original 1st Gen iPhone. However, normal everyday use of these phones and escpecially mine has proven to be not very good – even with everything turn off (3G, Wifi, GPS, Push). So basically the phone is running just like a normal 1st Gen iPhone in Edge. Apple specifications report around 10 hours talk of battery life on regular old Edge and 5 hours talk on 3G. Now that totally makes sense since 3G uses a ton more power.

Now I am a pretty heavy mobile user, but results I got were pretty sad when running on Edge only.

• On Edge – all other services turned off
• 12 hours Standy with 4 hours of use
• Only around 30 min of call time
• Phone in airplane mode for about 4 hours when I was flying
• Battery at 10%

That was pretty normal times on my battery. I read in a couple different forums where people were getting over 1 day of Standy and bigger usage times.

I called Apple Support on Friday and was giving them my battery times. She couldn’t find any exact numbers but she told me that it sounded like my battery was about half of what it should be getting when on Edge only. I went for the option of having my iPhone 3G replace by Apple and should be here tomorrow via DHL. I could have went to the Apple store to get it replace, but since the store is about 2 hours away and basically there are no iPhones in stock confirmed by iJustine’s video of “The World is out of iPhones”, I just paid $29 in shipping to have the iPhone shipped to me.

Now, this is where I want to hear from all the iPhone 3G owners out there. I want to hear what  your normal battery times in standby and usage times and under what configurations. I haven’t seen a centralized location with this information from real life users. So please post below, and let’s hear what your times are to help out other iPhone 3G owners.

I thought I would also share iJustine’s awesome video of “The World is Out of iPhones”

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKEkD6KFvs]

The Apple iPhone 3G! I LOVE IT! Except the battery sucks! – from my experience, the 3G will kill the battery, I had to turn it off in the settings.

Except for the battery sucking, this is absolutely the best mobile device I have ever used! Apple has surely raised the bar on mobile devices!

I spent all night in front of the Apple Store in Durham, NC at the Streets of Southpoint. I arrived around 10:30 p.m. and became the 2nd person in line for the night! YES!  The first person was going to be a freshman in college his year, and he was also the first in line at the same store for the original iPhone launch. He could have not been anymore excited than myself to get his hands on the 16GB white iPhone 3G. I decided to go with black to keep the white plastic from changing colors because of the dirt. Although, I did want the white one!  

After sitting all night, the store opened at 8 a.m. with a lot of enthusiasm. We were the first new iPhone customers to enter the store. Well, at least he thought he was going to be one of them.

As he was going through the AT&T setup, the computer told him he needs to go to the AT&T store to get his new iPhone 3G. He was rejected by the Apple Store from purchasing the new iPhone. He didn’t have a business plan. Come to find out, I think he had a corporate discount applied to his current plan which made AT&T think it was a business customer. I ran into this same problem and had to call AT&T and get the FAN removed. Once it was removed, the process worked like a charm. I am now an iPhone 3G owner – Black 16GB.

Unfortunately, the first person in line didn’t get his iPhone after waiting from 10:30 at night till 8 the next morning. If this was myself, I would have been one mad customer.

A couple of the news stations were there along with a group of students from Savannah Art College. I ran across their video on Youtube about the first person in line getting rejected from getting his iPhone 3G.

[youtube=http://youtube.com/watch?v=ok6lSP6asLU]

If that was you, what would you have done? If this happened to you, what did you do? Do you now have an iPhone 3G?