New iphone 5 charge or drain?

I just got my new iphone and I plugged it into my laptop to sync music and stuff, should i continue to charge it until its full or unplug it and let it die completely? It's a little over half way charged now.

For new iPhone, charge completely. I always like it fully charged. Never know if you may need it for a long call.

I generally let it charge completely, but I don't do a full cycle and continue to use it.

Do a full cycle charge once a month (that's optimum), but most people do more than that:

Apple link for battery care, it will also tell you about full cycle charges. Both links are different articles, read different links:
Link 1: http://www.apple.com/...batteries/
Link 2: http://www.apple.com/...phone.html

[sorry I would give instructions in the answer but I can't put the graphs here so I have put links instead]

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