little things: update

...on the topic of recharging:

i generally charged my nokia phones without much consideration (in the days before lithium-ion batteries, it was supposedly fearfully important to fully discharge the battery before recharging lest the dreaded "memory effect" rendered the battery functionally useless - which it did, in time, regardless: it was just how much time you could keep the battery alive before replacing it).

the k310i is different. recently, i noticed that even if i kept the phone plugged to the charger overnight, it would never give the "battery charged" indication text. the battery icon in the top right corner would just have this "lightning" zigzag graphic overlaid on it - and it wouldn't go away so long as the charger was connected.

now, not having read the manual thoroughly (my eyes tend to glaze over while doing this), i decided to test a notion that popped in my head. what if charging the phone was similar to charging a cybershot battery in-camera?

so: turn phone off, plug charger, connect to phone.

in about two hours, the screen lit up with the the battery charged text.

...hmmm. i wonder if this is going to be a boon or a bane...