I don’t think so.

Looking at pics of the new iPhone, it’s obvious that that gorgeous screen is going to take a lot of power to drive. The phone was also built to be a locally-stored media powerhouse - also requiring some decent claims of battery life.

If you take these needs, plus the awesome form factor, and add in the power-hungry requirements of 3G, I think you’re asking for a bit too much out of current-generation battery technology.

Does the automatic WiFi switcheroo feature help the cause at all? I’m curious to see how aggressive the phone is at searching out hotspots. Scanning all the time would be worse than 3G data use, but it would be great if you could easily hop on a free or unsecured network when it finds one.

In the end, Apple’s slick use of widgets and a great web browser will probably run quite nicely on EDGE. Sure you won’t be able to sling to the device or stream hi-fi media unless you’re in a WiFi area, but with Apple’s ability to create intuitive software, it might start getting close to my desire to have widgets really start to predict and think and actually be helpful.

I do worry about the soft keypad though. Typing with no tactile feedback is tough.

As a software developer, I’m also worried about yet another mobile development environment to deal with when porting applications. But I’m excited by the fact that widgets are easy to develop and am hoping that the device will eventually run Flash or Flash Lite. If Flash is put on this phone as a first-class application, and distribution is unsecured, Flash suddenly has a huge chance to start overcoming J2ME.

Exciting times.