Battery life is what I would be concerned about too. I recently signed up for Broadband Access Connect with Verizon for a couple of days and I was using Motorola E815 over bluetooth. I ran pidgin when I was connected to broadband. I noticed pidgin causes packets to be transferred every 8-10 seconds. With that, battery life was about 3 hours on E815 and phone got really warm. I guess pidgin kept phone from switching into low power mode with constant data transfer.