Motorola RAZR V3C Battery

I have a Motorola RAZR V3C and lately I've been noticing that the battery goes dead (from a full charge) every afternoon. I bought a new battery since I thought that the one that came with my phone may have developed a "memory" but that one does the same thing. I think that it has something to do with the lack of signal available inside the building where I work, or perhaps it's constantly searching for an available network, so yesterday I tried turning the phone on "Home Only" network setting and the battery lasted all day until 10 PM last night. I don't really want to have to keep switching between Home and Automatic networks - has anyone else had this issue? Is there a way to put the phone in powersave mode?

When Will iPod Phone Be Available?

Want an iPhone? Want to know when the Apple iPod iPhone will be available? Me too! I can't wait to see the iPhone in action and I'd like to be one of the first to test it out, live and in person! Click the link and you can find out how to sign up to get email alerts on when the Apple iPhone will be available for purchase sometime this summer. To tempt your gadget tastebuds, here are some more pics...

New Motorola Phones

Last year, I upgraded to a Motorola RAZR v3c from a Kyocera slider and I have to say that I am very happy with the RAZR by Motorola. Years ago, I bought my first cell phone and it was a Motorola StarTac. That was a quality phone that had great sound, was durable, and had great signal strength for those days when towers were few and far between. I had almost forgotten how good of a reputation Motorola has and going from the Kyocera, which was a decent little phone, to the RAZR was like going from a Pinto to a Lexus. I love the customization you can give the phone and it's power-packed features including the still/video camera quality - very nice. Motorola has a couple of new offerings including the Motorola K1 and the The Motorola Z3. The MOTOKRZR K1 is a flip or clam style phone like the RAZR that takes crisp photos, offers entertainment and helps you make the most of your time. The MOTORIZR Z3 is a slider style phone with features that you can access when the phone is open or closed. Listen to music, call a friend, play a game or use the full screen viewfinder as a digital camera.

Text Messaging: Teens vs. Adults

If my teenage daughter is any indication of the results of this poll,
I already know the answer to this one without even reading the story or viewing the results of the poll. It didn't take me long to figure out that the best way to go with a teen who has a cell phone is to go ahead and add the unlimited text messaging to their phone even if it's $10 or $15 per month - believe me, you'll come out ahead in the long run. Or, you could have text messaging capability removed all together from the phone; I have a friend who had to do this since his son had the unlimited in-network plus an additional 1000 out-of-network text messaging plan, and still went over, way over...

Anyway, here's the poll...
Associated Press
Poll: Nearly half of teens use instant messaging, fyi
WASHINGTON -- Almost half of teens, 48 percent of those ages 13-18, use instant messaging, according to an AP-AOL poll. That's more than twice the percentage of adults who use it.

According to the poll:
Almost three-fourths of adults who do use instant messages still communicate with e-mail more often. Almost three-fourths of teens send instant messages more than e-mail. More than half of the teens who use instant messages send more than 25 a day, and 1 in 5 send more than 100. Three-fourths of adult users send fewer than 25 IMs a day. Teen users (30 percent) are almost twice as likely as adults (17 percent) to say they can't imagine life without instant messaging. When keeping up with a friend who is far away, teens are most likely to use instant messaging, while adults turn first to e-mail. About a fifth of teen IM users have used IM to ask for or accept a date. Almost as many, 16 percent, have used it to break up with someone.

A bow to the traditional: When sharing serious or confidential news, both teens and adults prefer to use the telephone, the poll said. The survey of 1,013 adults and 500 teens was conducted online by Knowledge Networks from Nov. 30-Dec. 4. The margin of sampling error for the adults was plus or minus 4 percentage points, 5.5 points for teens.