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Yeah it really is kind of sleazy the way they tout in TV commercials that the phone is cheaper, when in reality over the life of the contract, it's actually more expensive, particularly since there's no free text messaging. Speaking of which, what's up with companies doing unlimited data service but not throwing in the text messaging. That's pure profiteering right there as the text messages use almost no bandwidth and really are almost 100% profit in the pockets of the cell service providers. - Alex Scoble

At the end of the day though, it's just a freakin' phone. Most people (90%) would be better off getting whatever free phone is available for AT&T through Verizon. Blackberry Curve anyone? - Alex Scoble

Who is Alex Scoble and what has he done with Robert? - Eric Schlissel from twhirl

There's definitely something weird going on with battery drain. Sometimes my phone will be dead if left to sit overnight, other times it's practically fully charged. - invariant - farewell FF

Why isn't there a voice guided turn-by-turn application already available? I read somewhere that in the iPhone SDK terms-of-acceptance, it says that you are not allowed to develop voice guided turn-by-turn. Is that true? - oregon_tony

Interestingly none of those reasons apply in the UK. The monthly cost is the same (both data and voice/sms), but many more minutes & sms are thrown in now. The handset one-off price is much cheaper. O2 are doing deals to enable 2g iPhone owners to upgrade before the end of their 18 month contract. The O2 3G network is OK (not good, but OK), and the O2 Edge network is crap. Because network coverage is better, the phone does not need to work so hard, and so the battery issue is much less of a problem. - Ian Fogg

I upgraded my iTouch and immediately noticed the poorer battery life on that device too. If I use wifi the device is lucky to last 2 days. If I turn that off and stick to my music/podcasts, I can get several days without needing a full charge. I also wonder how much extra power the different apps use. Games like Super Monkey Ball and Labyrinth and the NYTimes app, or Facebook or any of the others that rely on wifi/data connections? Think I'll stick to my Nokia E90. Cheaper with more benefits and software. - Stephen Cropp

Ian - having upgraded last week I have found the battery performance disastrous. The 3g network in London is patchy to say the least. Power managment within the OS seems inefficient. Some form of activity monitor is required - there are times when you know that an app is running in the background and draining the battery yet you cannot confirm or control the process. The GPS without... more... - Mark

Same with my Touch (2.0). Then again, I use the wi-fi quite alot at home. the games drain the hell out of my battery. Although Apple made fun of Task Manager in WM6, I'd much prefer it if there was one to use on my Touch. - Roberto Bonini

I think i like my Nokia phone and will stick with it and not go crazy about iphone - Vidya

I used my Blackberry (and now iPhone) as an alarm clock. My usual routine is to charge it every night if the battery is low enough. I'm pretty diligent with conditioning my batteries. Occasionally, I'll have to do an afternoon charge because I'll let it discharge well below 20%. I wonder if people are complaining about battery life because they have to charge it once per day? I keep bluetooth off, everything else is on. It seems to auto-switch WiFi off in standby and flips it back on when wakes up. - Paul Reynolds

i gave four good reasons nearly two months ago: http://bit.ly/3hFVm3 - Rob Shields from twhirl

I have to agree with Thomas. I'd like to note that A-GPS is rather unreliable as it often doesn't work (at least in my case.) I've made the decision replace my iPhone 3G with the N95-3. - © b e e n s w a n k

If you turn of the push feature, then you get much better battery life. I did it and now it much better. And here in Sweden the 3G / HSDPA network is quite good. - Svartling

I had a ATT Samsung 3G phone for about a year prior to buying a 1st gen iPhone. The Samsung would also occasionally just drain the battery even in sleep mode. I suspected it was something to do with the 3G radio and its behavior in poor reception areas, but couldn't reliably reproduce the problem. - Steve Wilhelm

Another theory on the 3G battery life is the radio power is cranked up right now to compensate for the weak coverage and it can be adjusted remotely by the carrier. I forgot to mention I turned "push" down to every 30 minutes. - Paul Reynolds

Just switched over last week after about 7 yrs of BB devices. Certainly has "cool factor", form factor and UI, but BB still better for power user of basic email and phone services without the bells and whistles of iPhone. That said, I think iPhone is a worthwhile investment and good device to have to monitor what is happening with mobile devices and device convergence. Mobile commerce and communication will be important elements to many business strategies. - Fred Neil

I'm very tempted by an unlocked 2nd hand gen 1 iPhone. Being tied to a carrier doesn't work for me no matter how compelling the device - James Clarke

Well James, unlocking for a different carrier is great, but don't expect any good apps in the jailbroken installer. Nothing but stupid themes. - Dennis Jackson

BOOOOO. But thanks. I'm waiting until my contract runs out and it's literally been killing me. At least this helps cool me down a bit. - Sarah Perez

Sometimes it might help to 'get Bold' instead of following the wisdom of the crowds :) - Mrinal Desai

Agreed. As I posted elsewhere, there is nothing compelling enough for me to spend an extra $30 per month. My beat up edge version works beautifully and mine was free! - Brad Nickel

What bugs me is that everyone is saying to turn this feature off or that feature off to preserve battery. What's the point of having an iPhone 3G if you have to turn all the features that make it different from the original iPhone off? Hopefully Apple will work on better battery life. For now I'm sticking with the 1st gen. - Dennis Jackson

Seriously, if you're worried about 3G battery life in your car, you might want to invest in a $20 car charge adapter for your $199 (or $299) phone. - Ernie Oporto

Don't call me Shirley. - Russellreno

Bada-bing! - Chris Baskind

even advertisements are longer than 12 seconds nowadays! - Imran Hussain from feedalizr

haha.. we've actually got a pretty decent 12second pitch I think. We were actually talking about something like TechCrunch's elevator pitch idea, but you only get 12 seconds :-). Don't know if someone has offered you an invite yet, but let me know if you want one. - Jacob (1 of the 12second Founders) - Jacob Knobel

i just realized how awesome that'd be to meet him. I wonder how long before he would get sick of people running away from him after 12 seconds. - Bartek Ciszkowski

Chris: I already read TechCrunch so didn't need a pitch. But, seriously, we talked about this service on our Photowalk on Friday. Consensus is that this might be interesting to watch. I will watch it once the hype dies down and see who uses it for what. - Robert Scoble

I hope for his sake that nobody comes up with the idea of "11seconds.tv". Why waste an extra second? - Jemm

Joni: I'm pretty sure we bought the domain name just in case :-) - Jacob Knobel

Jacob: How many founders does 12 seconds have?? - Imran Hussain from feedalizr

Imran: 2 main ones and then me - I've been there from day 1, but I head up the tech side of things. - Jacob Knobel

Not a bad idea if they can move the user base past the usual SV early adopters. Cool that you can upload from a cell phone. Another device agnostic platform - smart. Mobile is very early, but if they can keep up the business and make the audience grow, they could well position for future success/exit. - Patricia

Wouldn't 12 seconds be in direct competition with Qik for mobile? - Imran Hussain from feedalizr

Robert: I agree -- it will be interesting. Like you, my first thought was, "Twelve seconds?" Jacob: great to see you pop in. If I'm you, nobody gets to work on the project if they can't reliably pitch it in 12 seconds. :-) - Chris Baskind

I love 12 seconds. More fun than seesmic - David Jacobs

Imran: Not really.. qik is live streaming.. you're specifically going there to watch an event, interview, or something else happening. We're more short updates. Updates vs events - not really the same thing. A few of us here have or had qik compatible phones and we love the service! - Jacob Knobel

David: Glad you're enjoying it. On that note -- i don't even think we're in direct competition with Seesmic either - in the same way that traditional blogs aren't in competition with twitter. Rather, they compliment each other and serve different purposes. - Jacob Knobel

Liking this purely because a founder is taking part in the discussion! - MiniMage TKDteacher of FF from NoiseRiver

MiniMage: i've been a light twitter user, had a friendfeed account for a while, but never really used it. Today has really made me aware of how cool this service actually is and I hope to be on it a lot more. There's something really cool about being able to start conversations (usually with Twitter) and continue them with people that otherwise would be pretty hard to get in contact with. - Jacob Knobel

David: the feeling is mutual :) I've just started using my FriendFeed account today as well, and so far I'm loving the experience here. I'll give 12 seconds a try too, i think we had gotten 100 invites from you. - Imran Hussain from feedalizr

Oh you're so cleaver. I'm sure he's never had that happen before. - James Tenniswood

I'd be very interested in 12second's pitch. I've been in web video probably longer than most people in the internet business because of the IP telecom engineering background, and doing a ton in entertainment now. It'd be very interesting to hear it. - Patricia

I've been having fun with 12 seconds. Like it a lot. videos compatible with the the iPhone for playback would be cool. http://12seconds.tv/channel... - Capn' One Eye - adrift

Geoff: It's coming. It didn't make it into the feature set for launch, but we will be offering this feature at some point. - Jacob Knobel

i'm totally with you, scoble...i have a really hard time imagining any kind of widespread appeal for a video service with such a huge restriction on it. even back when i had a phone that supported immediate video upload, my videos were short...but considerably longer than 12 seconds! i really don't get it at all... then again, twitter seemed silly to me at first too. - Shawn C. Reed

hey robert... i'm the founder you didn't meet that night :) funny thing is I was waiting to have a conversation with you but you were being interviewed on camera and it was taking too long, so I split. ;) either way i'm totally stoked that this conversation is happening on FF. 12seconds is about video that's easy to make and easy to consume. It's about showing and telling your friends what's going on with you. That's it. Video should be accessible. Anything and anyone can be interesting for 12seconds... - David Beach

Well, if they talked as fast in person as I usually do, you could have gotten the guy's life story in 10 seconds and had an extra 2 to wind down in! ;) - Lucretia Pruitt

12seconds is a good idea, but where's the timeline? I want to see what everyone else is saying ... - Ivan Pope from twhirl

wow loic - probably one of the BEST vids i've watched in a long time! Relationships are EVERYTHING!! definitely look forward to connect with ya ;) - Alejandro Reyes

Loic, I could not agree more. What I can add is that people need to focus on their passions and connect with these similar people. However, go outside your comfort zones. No blogging is not dead - its just getting better, and better, and better...if anything it's getting bigger. I really enjoy your perspective and thanks for doing what you do. It's people like you, Robert Scoble, Chris Brogan and others that I look to - to help me serve my audience better. - Jason Cronkhite

Interesting insights Loic, thanks. I agree, it is becoming decentralised. Sometimes the conversation will jump from one network to another. I like what you said about finding the right group for what you have to say. I've experimented with crossposting the same micro-post to different platforms to see if there is a different reaction, a different number of replies. There usually is. Now I try to think where what I have to say would best fit - Twitter, ff, Plurk, Seesmic, Phreadz, Qik, Utterz, flickr, blog.. - jjprojects

very interesting take on blogging and decentralization. I run into the same thing based on where my friends hang out whether I updated them on Facebook, twitter, church, or within my Team In Training cycle team. Don't force people to sign-up to receive updates on your life. You need to adapt to their means of communication. - Randy Ksar

I think the general answer to "Is x dead" is generally no, unless it's roadkill. - Cat Laine from twhirl

So if everything is being decentralized, then the network needs to be portable across all of these social software tools. - Justin Whitaker