Why is battery so much worse on the iPhone 3G?

I've been using the old iPhone for a year. And a month ago I switched to the 3G phone. And the battery lasts around 50% compared to the old.
- 3G is off
- Email set to manual
- Brightness less than 50%
- Unlike the old phone, my iPhone 3G is not jailbroken.
I did a test some days ago: Charged the phone fully, and it said "Standby and Usage: 1 minute". The next day when i checked my phone is said standby 12 hours and usage 7 hours. Appearantly the phone was in use, when it was locked?
I'm getting really tired of this phone... The old one was much better

No genious bar in my country, only option is mailing it to a servicepoint which will probably take several weeks
Anyway, what could possibly be running? Battery has been like that since i got the phone, and i've upgraded firmware several times, now running 2.1. I restart the phone a couple of times during the week.

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iPhones are ONLY sold by Carriers and Apple an Apple reseller is unlikely to be authorised for iPhones and certainly would not sell an iphone with a foreign plug
You have clearly purchased a grey import a genuine Polish sourced iPhone sold by a legitimate iPhone reseller would have the correct plug for the Country
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I then delete a bunch of photos, podcasts, etc. effectively freeing up plenty of space to take a photo.
Nope - iPhone Camera still things there is no space available.
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I notice that some items I delete seem to free up the space much more quickly. Removing an app entirely or deleting from my Music generally shows up as available space in Usage pretty quickly.
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