>I don't get this separate battery charger idea, specifically when you
>mention the phones being mainly for "emergency purposes".

Well, while they're for "emergency purposes", we both do use our
phones at least once a month, according to ecallplus.com requirements.

(My mother calls her sister, who lives in Cincinnati, OH, because
it's really not "long distance" via the cell phones, but it is from our
landline phone.)

And, my mother uses her vehicle so little, charging her phone in her
vehicle would seriously take a while! She only goes one place, once a
week, and she's typically there within ten minutes. And, on the weekend,
it's used, briefly. We typically go a couple places, on the weekend.

Now, it would be quite possible for me! I have about a 1 hour and
ten minute, one way, commute to where I work. So, I am driving my car
about two and a half hours every work day. :-)

It may be "habit"... we both like the idea of being able to charge
our spare phone batteries in the A/C house chargers we have, for our
current Nokia batteries.

Barry
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