[parkjam]

Just curious, and I wonder why no one has asked this, what is signal strength like in the location she is with the phone all day? Low signal strength, and being in fringe coverage areas, is a death sentence for battery life.

For example, if I am around where I live, I get great coverage, my battery can last through two days. I unplug in the morning, I am not forced to plug back in until the following evening, and that is with light usage and push email.

If I go to my mother-in-laws house, where the coverage is spotty at best, the phone is constantly switching between 1 bar EV Sprint, roaming, and no signal (she literally lives in a dead-zone for CDMA, IDEN, and GSM networks). In that area, my phone lasts about 12 hours on the same charge! It is crazy!