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Originally Posted by piku View Post
Interestingly the Wikipedia entry says you shouldn't. They also say LiIon batteries die pretty quickly if they get too warm - say in the back of your N800 attached to the dashboard of your car on a sunny day.

Apple say similar things about their batteries.

NimH and NiCd batteries are the ones that need deep cycling.

Then again, I've yet to own a mobile device whose battery hasn't totally given up within a year anyway (my laptop's battery is totally dead, it doesn't hold charge overnight any more). So I don't think it really matters
Personally I think there's not much that can go wrong with a LiIon battery with functional and sturdy charge monitoring circuitry. Whether the new-battery-deep-cycle works or not, it shouldn't do any harm to a LiIon battery anyway. And if you do happen to have a dodgy one, better to find out early, eh?