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NTT DoCoMo cooks up low-power chip for Super 3G
In technology, speed is almost universally the enemy of power, and that rule certainly holds true in the world of cellular data standards. You heard it from His Steveness himself — one of the main reasons we don’t have a 3G iPhone on store shelves is because he isn’t happy with battery life on HSDPA chipsets yet (consumers’ opinions be damned, apparently), and in general, runtimes on 3G handsets large and small flag their 2G cousins, sometimes by a significant margin.
