A serious iPhone battery zap

I'm not one to drive my car to see how far I can really go after the feed me light comes on, but I did that with my iPhone. So for the first time, I've got a better picture of what it takes to really zap the battery.

Total stats on a full charge:

• 12 hours "usage" (which in this case includes about 70 minutes of video and 10 hours of iPod music)
• 2 days, 6 hours of standby
• 45 minutes of talk time
• 12 MB of EDGE data transfer

All things considered, that a busy two and a half days I think for the phone. Color me impressed. I've gone three days with no charging and still 1/3 on the battery meter, and less iPod use, but I didn't tempt fate in those cases. My cheap ass Samsung phone, even when new, basically did about two days with a moderate amount of calling and texting.

All this, and Apple says the battery should still do about 80% capacity after 400 "full" charge cycles. To me that says the battery will last as long as I have the phone, probably two to three years (unless, or I should say when, they make one that's more kick ass). The bottom line is that battery life is what it should be in the real world.