I’m not making this up in Walt Mossberg’s video review of the 3g iPhone he says a couple of days in his two week trial the battery didn’t last the full day.

He goes into this topic around 2:20 of the clip below.

Now you can imagine the problems having a phone with a non removable battery that doesn’t last a full day. You end up with no form of communication.

All that GPS, 3g, Google Maps, Visual Voicemail go out the window if the device doesn’t have the juice to turn on.

In the keynote for the iPhone 3g Steve Jobs took great pleasure in announcing “better battery life”.

Can you imagine a keynote where the claims were a bit more realistic.

Hi, I’m Steve Jobs

This is the iPhone 3g, we think its cool, we think you going to love it, isn’t this just amazing, look at that screen its gorgeous, but if you plan on using it all day the battery probably wont last. 

Anyway watch Walt’s review which is generally positive but he does point out the fact its more expensive to own than 1st generation iPhone.

Link: http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20080708/newer-faster-cheaper-iphone-3g/

After a being pretty vague on the release date Microsoft have announced this will start appearing on selected Windows Update users machines starting 10th July.

As an I.T. person I knew this was coming but little more notice would be helpful.

I am going to be watching the early deployment of this Windows Update version closely.

Tech Tip: If there are widespread problems there is a panic button in the form of a Service Pack Blocker. This tool offered by Microsoft will delay the automatic SP3 install.

Link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d7c9a07a-5267-4bd6-87d0-e2a72099edb7&displaylang=en&tm

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