Originally Posted by moisie:
“You are advised to regularly fully deplete the battery and give it a full charge rather than constantly topping it up all the time. From memory a lot of batteries have a memory themselves so that if you're constantly letting it go from say 80% charge to 50% it will begin to think that's it's capacity.”
I know that applies to Ni-Cad, but I don't think it applies to Lithium type batteries. They actually don't like to be drained completely, and should be topped up regularly, but not stored on full charge either.
I would imagine there's a Lithium battery and not Ni-Cads in an iPod.