Well, Well Well.... i got 17hrs yesterday. I turned off Data,wifi BT on the phone was on but my BT ear piece was turned off. 3g was on ALL day. The day started for me around 6am. Every now and then i turned on data to get email and did a little surfing. Around noon i still have over 70% of battery life left. Around 6pm i used it heavily chatting and talking on the phone. Around 11pm battery was still around 43% remaining. Today i will leave BT ear piece on do different things to see what will happen with battery life.

PS so far since 6am when i took it off the charger. Xterm using lshal reports as follows:

6:00am: battery.reporting 1190 mAh - 94%
8:21am: battery.reporting 1003 mAh - 79% --at this point i turned on Data...hopefully it should turn its self off
8:44am: battery.reporting 981 mAh - 77%