The news that Apple hasn't shoehorned 3G into the UK iPhone will disappoint many people here, even if it wasn't a huge surprise (not least because if the company had, can you imagine the backlash from iPhone users in the US?) At the launch this morning, Steve Jobs said battery life is what's stopping Apple releasing a 3G iPhone, with the claim that a 3G model's talktime would be cut to 2-3 hours, rather than Apple's preferred 5+. Instead, Jobs talked up the faster speed of Wi-Fi surfing, and offered us Brits the carrot of a deal with Wi-Fi hotspot provider The Cloud for free access through its 7,500 UK hotspots.