The phones software plays a very large part of battery conservation. I would suspect the 3G radio is ramped down when just waiting for a call or in standby. How well the software handles this is important.
Thjere is no magic with L-Ion battery technology. The get a higher capacity battery in a device you need to increase it's size. The iPhone is pretty thin and if they just increased the thickness by 50% the phone size would still be acceptable and you could bring battery capacity way up.
I do not think either RIM or Apple have not spent alot of R&D on the 3G battery problem. It will not take a day the bad news to get out about either phone if the battery life is not good!
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