[manephelien]

Continuous searching for a signal drains the battery almost as much as talking on the phone for the same amount of time would, if the signal was good.

Older ni-cad batteries had to be drained to charge properly, newer lithium ones can be charged without going to zero in between.

I like my phone, except that it takes forever to boot it, and it gets snarled up like any other computer device, so you have to do that occasionally.