With regard to the battery life, I am going on day number two of not charging it. I got the phone on friday, ran the battery dead immediately. Took it home turned it off gave it a full nights charge and woke up on saturday and haven't charged it yet. Its now 7:40 PM EST on sunday and I have one yellow bar left. I have used the phone plenty, done plenty of browsing and haven't put it down using BBM. I would say its pretty comparable to my curve. The phone is definately growing on me.