iPhone 3G talk time better than expected

So we've been running battery tests non-stop since the iPhone was released on Friday and we've been getting some consistent results and some vexing ones. We're finally comfortable with the battery results we got for talk time, we'll be using our best result of five hours fifty minutes for the iPhone 3G's score. We also ran two other tests that were within half an hour, five hours thirty-nine minutes and five hours twenty-two minutes respectively. All of these results are better than Apple's stated talk time of five hours and are very good for a 3G device, where the network is very power hungry.

It's worth noting, however, that talk time may be the least of the factors impacting your battery life on the iPhone 3G. That display seems to be a power hog, GPS is another and of course data transfer and music playback will impact it as well. Still, it's good to see that the iPhone 3G didn't totally tank this test given the concerns about battery life that have been voiced.

See the iPhone 3G's talk time and all our current battery results here.