They've both had the lithium Ion battery as long as they've been out. Only 
upgrade I know of is is the early ICT90A's had receiver issues where they 
were way too broad, get in a high noise area and it was useless but they 
fixed that after about the first year or so apparently since I've had 2 of 
them and neither one had that problem though the newer one is even better 
than the first one was with noise. Neither one I've had was near as bad as a 
couple people I know and they showed me how bad they were. They were bought 
in the first 6 months it was out though.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rich De Steno" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 10:02 AM
Subject: Two Accessible HT's


> Regarding the two accessible handie-talkies mentioned yesterday, the 
> Kenwood
> TH-FA6 and the Icom T-90A, I did some checking on the web.  I was 
> surprised
> to learn that the Kenwood is about $70 more expensive than the Icom. 
> These
> HT's have been around for about seven years and are still going strong. 
> At
> least the Icom has a lithium ion battery, which I assume it did not have
> until a few years ago, since NiCads used to be the standard.  I wonder if
> they have been upgraded in any way since the first came out.  These
> companies used to discontinue HT's after a year or two.