wifi and 3G sip the battery juice fast. enable the wifi and 3g only when u need it.

The fact is, we don't even use up to 10-15 apps on the PC so I've no idea how people could use up to 40-60 on an iPhone For me, I'll just keep things I use and remove all others.

if ur on maxis data package, its better to keep ur 3g on at all times rite. but dat runs down d batt. so ur not really usin ur 3g to its full potential.

Actually you can turn it off (it'll automatically switch to Edge) but when you want to download your mails, surf the net, etc then have 3G on. Having 3G all the time really drains off the battery life

But I thought as long as its not transmitting or transfer data, having 3G on will not really affect battery life? I know about the near far phenomenon though (2G will always be more power efficient). Actually I had the phone connected on 3G with just 1-2 bars of reception and I have been receiving and dialing a couple of calls including sms, my battery is still full (according to indicator). Or maybe its not accurate?

It doesn't behave that way apparently. Even on my old N95, having 3G turned on would drain more battery. What you can do is full charge the phone, on the first time turn on 3G whole day to see how long it last and the next time, turn it off.

I've tried it out and having 3G on would make me charge my phone every night without fail or I would run out of battery the next day

I think you're right. I'll give that a try. I know on the iPhone 3G connecting to WIFI for surfing, chatting and FB-ing would drain the battery at a faster rate.

I have SBSettings installed so it's easy for me to toggle 3G, WIFI on/off You should get that app too (provided you JB your iPhone).

Ya, i face the same situation as his mention. It will quite drain my battery when i keep on my 3G. I have been do some testing on my iphone and i find out if i turn off the 3G service, the battery life (after the full charge) will stand for at lease 2days even i always use the iphone for listen music or make the call.

Personally for me, the only reason I would need the extra capacity is for my Itunes collection.. Unfortunately, since the largest capacity is only 16gb, that wasn't enough for my entire song collection so i am happy with my 8gb and it just means i have to be more selective with my songs.

In terms of apps i only really play bejeweled 2 on it so i guess i don't really need the space.

Do you actually listen to all 16gb of songs though o_o

I only have a few hundred megs of music on my iphone. My entire collection in my PC is like 40 gigs (been collecting since the days of dialup, aha), but 90+% of them I don't listen anymore so I never bothered putting it on my phone.

Waa..don't thought this thread will be so informative at the first glance. But really useful with lots of opinion instead. Makes me think to change to Iphone...with the most affordable price range one, of course. Go for 8GB!

Actually no i don't - but it's more like 17 gigs of songs that i've ripped from the CDs I own. I just like the idea of carrying my entire CD collection with me

A 32gig Iphone would be perfect for me if it existed

But 8gb is good enough for now.

after half year with my iphone 16GB
I still have 7GB free space man!

was so lazy to tranfer songs/video to it.

haha, actually 8GB is very very enough, i choose 16GB because of white color, currently my iphone storage just around 4GB =p

different user different usage ....

some ppl bought 16gb but utilized 1 - 2gb only...

regret ? nvr think about it..
if i bought another handphone and dont buy iphone, i will regret why i dont buy iphone..^^

using iphone 3G 16GB already 4 month, always travel KL-JB by bus or KTM, so put a lot of movie inside.. currently my iPhone have 300++ songs and 5 movies, used memory 8GB ++

so i think every 1 can fully utilized iphone if u get 8GB.. ^^

if I were to use i phone for PDA usage and medium entertainment(MP3 and bit of video) 8GB should be ok for me right?

yes. videos (visual podcasts, music videos, movies, tv series et cetera) are capacity killers

thanks for the info... I now in midst of extending my credit limit for it.... iphone3G 8GB...