I don't know whether to laugh or cry over this! I got my N900 last week and I think it is a brilliant piece of technology. The fact that you can write perl scripts to monitor the battery life is brilliant. The fact that such script, when run, will substantially eat into the already ridiculous battery life is a travesty. The N900 is a Nokia device which has cellular technology built in. As such, Joe public (even the Linux nerdy ones) will expect this to encompass all Nokia knows about mobile phone technology. In my view this would imply that the phone would last at least a day on a single charge. It is sold as lasting 2-4 days (yes, read the pre-release garb and listen to the guys in the Nokia store). I have stripped my phone down - no e-mail update, GSM only (no 3G), 10 second backlight, no widgets (none added, maybe I should remove the calendar too), no background applications running. It still only lasts about 4-5 hours!!!! (after 15+ charge cycles). This is just not acceptable, and almost certainly makes it "not fit for purpose". I'm hoping that something can be done soon in a firmware update. If they had been straight and said 5 hours battery life I would have walked away. Instead I've been teased with brilliant technology but can't use it, unless I carry a phone charger/USB lead around with me all day and stay near a power point/desktop computer! Well hey, I don't want to make phone calls with a USB lead in my ear. Rant over BZ