USAGE:
I unplugged the phone from it's charger at around 7:00am this morning, made several phones, received text messages all day long from Twitter and other users (and sent a few text messages), checked email hourly, read/composed email, and listened to an hour's worth of music stored on the device. I also took half-a-dozen photos and uploaded a few to Flickr via the Sharing feature. I also streamed a short video segment via Qik.

16 TIPS to PROLONG the N900 BATTERY:

1. Set Display brightness level to 2 out a possible 5 (in Settings | Display)
2. Set Backlight-Timeout to 30 seconds (in Settings | Display)
3. Turn on Power Saving Mode (in Settings | Display)
4. Turn off Touch Screen Vibration (in Settings | Display)
5. Turn off Notification Light for Device On state (in Settings | Notification Light)
6. Turn off Vibrate for both Silent and General Profiles (in Settings | Profiles)
7. Turn off Bluetooth (in Settings | Connectivity)
8. Turn off GPS (in Settings | Connectivity)
9. Turn off FM Transmitter (in Settings | Connectivity)
10. Set Connect Automatically to your cellular data network (in Settings | Connectivity)
11. Set Search Interval to 60 minutes (in Settings | Connectivity)
12. Disable Switch to Wifi When Available (in Settings | Connectivity)
13. Set Wifi Transmission Power to 10mw (in Settings | Connectivity | Connection Setup | Advanced | Other)
14. Set Power Saving Mode to On (Maximum) (in Settings | Connectivity | Connection Setup | Advanced | Other)
15. Set Availability for Skype & IM accounts to Off by default (in Status Bar | Availability)
16. Reduce the number of Desktop Views from 4 to 1 (in Desktop Menu | Manage Views)

User vasilov at the Talk.maemo.org forums has some great ideas as well, so be sure to read their post as well.

I'm curious what performance & battery life experience others are having.

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For years, my browser-of-choice has been Flock, the social media browser built on Firefox. Last month I switched my browser to Firefox 3.5 with the Yoono plug-in to see how it compared w/ Flock, and to learn what using a 'more standard' browser experience felt like. Aside from using all the same plugins and addons as Firefox, the experience was very similar.

But I couldn't get comfortable with using Yoono. It's UI feels disruptive, cluttered, and less useful than Flock's built-in social media enabling features. Now that Flock has added more functionality for Twitter (easy re-tweets, replies, and direct-messages) and integrated Facebook chat into the chrome (so you don't have to be on a Facebook page to access it), I've switched back. I've even explored the "My World" page built into Flock. With just a few simple customizations, I was able to reproduce the same functionality as TweetDeck, which can now be removed (right after I un-instill Firefox).

Way to go Flock! Be sure to check out it's new version 2.5.1 available for all platforms