Originally Posted by jjx

I believe modern battery charge monitoring software already accounts for that to some extent, and will not allow you to charge the battery to "true" 100% or "true" 0% in normal circumstances.

So you should be fine charging the battery to the point where the phone says "Ok, I've finished charging now".

And if the electronics are at all sensible, it should stop charging the battery at that point automatically.

Originally Posted by DannStarr

I would hope it doesn't let you get to these true 100 and 0%'s too, it just that there is a lot of confusion over how *best* to treat these batteries.

Personally I go up to the 100% and then after my day (on current 3gs) am usually down to about 20% I then go all the way back to 100% - however, my point is that if I can grab extra juice during the day, that is only a good thing, and you don't need to feel bad about not giving it a full charge

Originally Posted by MNX1024

Well, my battery life is pretty good. Ranges from 6:30-8 hours. My first usage was about 7-8 hours. I was using a minimum of 3 hours of wifi and the rest on 3G-3.5G(if that matters) while streaming music constantly before it went dead on me. When I wasn't using anything what so ever, I got over 9 hours of battery life and it was still going(had to charge at that point because it was dangerously low, lol). But I have to say, if you're using the device as a music player, don't bet on it because it's pretty bad. It went dead on me after 5 hours with about an hour of 3.5G data usage. It drains even faster than wifi....

Originally Posted by thinh

mines was pretty bad also, but after i tune my brightness down one notch and turn off my 3g when i'm not using it, it actually get by almost a full day uses.

but compare to my e61i it's miles away, but then the e61i isn't a powerful as the n900

Originally Posted by sadfist

I went out today with a full charge. Tried to get noksnes running a game for a few minutes but its pretty flaky. Then I played Urquan Masters for a bit. Listened to a bit of music. After maybe a 40 minute train ride, battery was almost at 50%. This was around 3:45pm EST. The half charge kept me going with shooting off an email with 1mb attachment, one brief call, checking the phone periodically, a few min of web surfing, a few pictures (with flash).

I think we'll see battery life improve as apps get more polished.

EDIT: oh yeah, I started getting battery warnings walking home from the train a few minutes ago (11-11:30pm EST)

Originally Posted by jjx

Note that some people, in other threads, are advising against cycling the battery all the way down. I've no idea what to believe.

Originally Posted by bugelrex

How about if you used it in a similar way to the e61i? Would the battery be comparable since you would not be using the extra features?