The Nokia N96 gets a lot of stick for short battery life. When I first got mine it wouldn't last the day, but it turns out the fix is extremely simple.

The N96's behavior out of the box is to scan for wireless networks. This draws quite a lot of power from the battery. If you're using it the way I do, you end up using the same wifi networks most of the time anyhow and don't need the phone connected 24/7 anyhow, which would have been the main advantage of continuously scanning for wifi networks.

I turned this off and am now getting up to 2½ days of battery time.

Not the most interesting post ever, but no one else seems to have latched on to this tip so I thought I'd throw something up for google to munch on.

Now that I've bored you, you may move along.