>> As an owner of iPhone 2G I attest that was completely true. It really depends on what you compare it to. I owned a Treo, a Sidekick and a few windows mobile

>> As an owner of iPhone 2G I attest that was completely true. It really depends on what you compare it to. I owned a Treo, a Sidekick and a few windows mobile devices in the years before the iPhone. All had worse battery life. Yes, Blackberry and feature phones were much better. But they weren't modern smartphones either. The iPhone was the first to combine truly impressive software, a large screen and 8 hours of active use in one package. My Sidekick was dead by 2 pm; my windows mobile phones needed a battery swap around noon.