Your statement is only true for old technology batteries such as Ni-Cad.
For Li-Ion Li-Poly, there's no need or should I re-phrase, NEVER to let your battery die off. It'll kill your battery in no time.
I have to suffer the consequences with one of the Motorola smartphones and the ori battery died just right after 6 months, which the warranty only covers 6 months.

After that, I never do that to my PSP, laptop, other handphones, and the battery is going strong. Even my 6600 which I bought since it first launch, the battery is still alive and kicking; I'm not using it, just using it as alarm clock, but it can last at least 2 days.

i second that... for Lithium based battery, keep it full charge whenever possible...
my N95 battery is still going strong after 2 years of full charge everyday..
it's still possible to last at least 2 days of usage without charging.

so, my conclusion is.. just charge the phone anytime, regardless of the battery level. As long as it's not dead low

With the new technology that cuts from overcharge, the risk is LOW from exploding. But you can't ignore the risk, if it have a chance to explode, your phone is a gonner.

This post has been edited by Leo the Lion: Feb 2 2010, 01:47 PM

the technology is not new my friend.... if you use your ori battery and ori charger, the chance of it "exploding" is basically 0%.
maybe you shouldnt walk near a car as well as car runs on fuel which is flamable, and there is a risk of it exploding, though the risk is low.... joking..

read here..
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/partone-12.htm

Maybe I'm kinda outdated.

TQ for highlighting the stuff I dont know.

Yes, the risk is there, similar with laptops, which previously happened to Dell (the source mentioned it was due to the battery supplier).
So, in this case, one question remains, if you're using your laptop for long hours, when plug into the power outlet, should one remove the battery? I don't think many people do that. I used to do that last time, but it's too troublesome and I believe manufacturer wouldn't build laptops that requires owner to remove the battery everytime when it's plugged into the power outlet.

Nonetheless, the risk is there and pay attention to the battery; usually, you'll notice the battery already bloated or something wrong. I experience one original battery which bloated causing the casing unable to close properly.
I have no comment on non-original battery and non-original charger though. Non-Ori I would refer to those without proper QC or something like that.

Do take note that the charger is also important, if you buy a cheap-fake charger which claims to charge faster, etc. Possibly it's giving more volts than it's required, which causes the battery to heat up faster, etc. It can also possibly damage your battery and in actual, you battery aren't fully charged (even it showed fully charged) because for the full charge cycle, there's 3 stages it need to complete. I've use a cheap fake car charger before and it spoilt my N81 original battery, the battery life suddenly becomes very bad.
You can try google to read more about it and the risk of it.
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/partone-12.htm

Anyway, regardless it's a battery or not, as long as it's electronics, even light bulbs, it's important to use the correct rating.

Seems we have gone out of topic, hehe;
Just sharing some information above, not saying it's 100% safe to leave it charge always; Surely there is risk, but it's not always we can unplug the charger immediately it's fully charged, and surely, the manufacturer would've think of this, thus there is automatic cut-off.
My point is simply, for Li-Ion and Li-Poly battery, NEVER let your battery died off and for best efficiency, always keep the battery above certain level (maybe 50%). Simply put, unlike Ni-Cad batteries, we don't have to wait until the battery low then only charge.

Here's a test done by someone using the N95, you can see the difference with different charge cycle.
http://blogn95.blogspot.com/2007/07/gentle...-batteries.html

Hey Andy, are you a 206ers?

Glad to see you're n900 fan too

LoL, you're here too~

Yup, a fan of N900 =)

anyone having prob playing flv video from any website?

i hv np using laptop, but N900 not able to play....

I can play video files from YouTube.

As for FLV files. It's not supported. I have tried the "extra-decoders support" which is currently still under extras-devel, seems most FLV files can't played yet, only 1 of my flv file played successfully, probably depending on how each videos are encoded.

On the other hand, SmartMovie on the Symbian is great, able to play most FLV files and many types of video files. Waiting for similar on the N900.....

i hv np wif youtube or other search engine...

but this particular website dat is not able to play...

guess hv to wait......

Try instaling Zoutube
AFAIK by installing zoutube, it will also install codec for playing FLV vid on media player
Correct me if im wrong though

tried dat...but to no avail

Hmm weird enuff...BTW from what site does the FLV vids come from? Becoz if im not mistaken, not every flv vids is simillar...for example, FLV vids from youtube differs from FLV from Myspace video

Again, correct me if im wrong though LOL


BTW for those who uses google maps on their N900 Browser wif Maemo-geolocator plugin (am i spelling it rite LOL),
Care to try this site?

http://n900maps.ath.cx/

or

http://www.tomch.com/maemaps.html

These site seems to be providing optimized Google Maps for N900 Browser
Share your feedback please. Been eager to know how the experience

This post has been edited by zero_kbom: Feb 3 2010, 02:00 AM

Do you guys have chinese text display issues on N900?

Check the previous pages. There's someone who post about chinese text display

Hi,

Just wanna know what GPS software did u guyz use in N900?

Which are the best?

Anyone can recommend me a place to purchase n900 with reliable AP company?

Maybe you can buy from us. Today price AP is RM2000.

This post has been edited by Clareen: Feb 3 2010, 12:43 PM