So basically carry a big 'battery' to charge your small battery. Don't
think that is really addressing the problem.
/KB
Braun Brelin wrote:
> Toshiba is apparently releasing a product that addresses battery life on
> mobile electronics...
>>http://www.toshiba.com/taec/news/press_releases/2009/dmfc_09_580.jsp>> I have no idea whether or not its available for sale in Europe, nor do I
> know anything
> about its efficiency.
>> Braun
>>> On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:28 AM, CP Hennessy <cp.hennessy at openapp.ie>wrote:
>>> On Sun 18 Apr 2010 13:51:07 Robert Grundulis wrote:
>>> On 26 March 2010 13:10, CP Hennessy <cp.hennessy at openapp.ie> wrote:
>>>> On Fri 26 Mar 2010 11:34:19 Philip Trickett (List) wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 11:14 +0000, CP Hennessy wrote:
>>>>>> Even though the N900 is not available in vodafone shops it is
>>>>>> available online (depending on your package you can get it for as
>>>>>> low as €269). However the chappy in the Jervis St vodafone kiosk,
>>>>>> who was kind enough to let me have a go on his n900, told me that
>>>>>> vodafone will only have
>>>> it
>>>>>>>>>> on it's website for a few more weeks as o2 have the license to sell
>>>>>> it in Ireland.
>>>>>>>>>>>> I've just ordered mine and look forward to spending much to much
>> time
>>>>>> playing with it.
>>>>> So, is an N900 users group on the card then? ;)
>>>> I guess that any more than 2 people would be a group ;P
>>>>>>>> CPH
>>>> --
>>> Me ma got me an N900 for my birthday. It's pretty amazing.
>>>>>> Nokia are cool about people rooting them and doing what they want. If you
>>> try to sudo at the terminal, you are told to install a package to enable
>>> root access, but that if you make a mess of the phone it's your problem.
>>>>>> There are no OS restrictions at all, I had Apache and mySQL running on it
>>> just for fun. It's also pretty nippy too.
>>>>>> The only downer is that it eats batteries for breakfast. I am lucky to
>> get
>>> just over a day out of it without making any calls. I'm sure higher
>>> capacity batteries will make it to market though.
>> It seems that most(all?) smartphones are battery hungry.
>>>> But there are obviously several things you can do to help:
>> - install the app so that you choose the phone mode : 2G, 3G, dual
>> - change the screen brightness and timeouts
>> - do not automatically connect to a network
>>>> ... and all of the other standard linux power hungry items you would also
>> do
>> on your laptop, including :
>> - turn off bluetooth (unless you want to listen to the FM radio as they are
>> on
>> the same chip)
>> - do not have too many dynamic items on your desktop
>>>> I guess the extreme would be to disable everything which is not directly
>> associated with making and receiving phone calls. I'm guessing that this
>> should give you several days of power. But whats the point in that ;)
>>>> CPH
>> --
>> Irish Linux Users' Group mailing list
>> About this list : http://mail.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug>> Who we are : http://www.linux.ie/>> Where we are : http://www.linux.ie/map/>>> --
> Irish Linux Users' Group mailing list
> About this list : http://mail.linux.ie/mailman/listinfo/ilug> Who we are : http://www.linux.ie/> Where we are : http://www.linux.ie/map/>
--
This message has been scanned for viruses and
dangerous content by MailScanner, and is
believed to be clean.
Maintained by the ILUG website team. The aim of Linux.ie is to
support and help commercial and private users of Linux in Ireland. You can
display ILUG news in your own webpages, read backend
information to find out how. Networking services kindly provided by HEAnet, server kindly donated by
Dell. Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds,
used with permission. No penguins were harmed in the production or maintenance
of this highly praised website. Looking for the
Indian Linux Users' Group? Try here. If you've read all this and aren't a lawyer: you should be!
