Tone Deft wrote:http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs-3g.html
http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
3Gs - Audio playback: Up to 30 hours
2G - Audio playback: Up to 24 hours
24 hours of mp3 time seems fine by me, that'd be 2 days at least. probably a week since it would be mostly for my short commute and walking around town at lunch.
camera goes from 2megapixel to 3megapixel, adds autofocus, touch to focus, record VIDEO...
compass, meh.
it would double as my mp3 player with a smaller version of my mp3 library. if I get one of these things, I would have to use iTunes to manage the library, so it would be a separate (f-ed up) iTunes library. iTunes has a f-ing lame flat directory structure I'm not doing that to my mp3s.
my current phone sucks and my mp3 player is bricked, so this is an option, I guess.
you can point itunes to your mp3's, and disable copying them into the itunes directory, but they'll show up in the library, ready for syncing with your iphone. and you should be able to manually manage the ipod on the phone, i prefer manually managing my ipod- i agree with beats here, i'd kill the iphone battery, as my ipod runs for ~ 8 hours a day, so i don't use the ipod feature on the phone at all, but for what you said, it should be fine, just take your power cord with you to work, or get another one, hell, you could hook it up to a usb port on your work comp. although once a day charging *should* be fine, you could leave it hooked up at work so you always have it on full charge... but i wouldn't mind putting some movies/tv shows on it for long trips or whatnot, the screen is very nice. i charge mine every other day, every other phone i've had, i charged every 10-14 days, but that wasn't accessing the internet, or using the calculator, or texting. i'm sure if i just used the phone features, it would last a week...
the video feature looks really nifty, but it would cost me 500 bucks
not happening! if that wasn't essential for you, the 8g for 99 is a pretty nice deal, although there is a processor upgrade in the 16/32 models... it really is a fun phone, you wouldn't be a fanboi if you
only had the phone
and your apc would have worked immediately if you had a mac 
GAFM ***
and e-mails) on my way to and back from work... do phone calls, send sms and use youtube a bit [all over 3g / edge], and it lasts for a whole day... i have one charger at work and one at home... that is sufficient...
