On new phones, everything I read says it's not worth it, and could do damage to the life of the battery if you do it to often. (Not that anybody keeps a smartphone for the length of time it would take to kill it completely.) I read that discharging it once a month to calibrate it is fine, but otherwise staying at 50% or higher is optimal. I don't think it makes a huge difference, and closing apps, turning off GPS etc probably do much more to eek out a little extra juice than any charging regimen.
Played with the Turbo in the store the other day and loved it, but I wanted a bigger screen. The Note Edge comes out soon, but it is being way overpriced (the Edge program was somewhere close to $50 p/month iirc) so I grabbed a Note 4 that'll be here tomorrow. Should be a decent upgrade over my S4 and I know most people hate it, but Touchwiz doesn't bother me, and I can just wait for root and play around with ROMs to find a balance.
I'm just excited to tell T Mobile to fuck off and get back on Verizon's network. Any ideas why the 4gb plan is priced the same as the 10gb on the Edge plan with the discounts applied? Thought that was odd, and since I need 5ish gigs per month I went with the 10gb plan with the intention of adding a line or two in the coming months, but it surprised me. They're also running a promotion for a $150 bill credit per line if you port a number over to Verizon so if anyone is on the fence, that credit wipes out the price difference between them and T Mobile, at least in my case.
