[wplug] Zaurus Users

[Liam O'Shea]

>From my use, the only time i've had a problem with the battery runing dry is when i've mistakenly cranked the display illumination up to 100% and been constantly using it.  On the whole, I get good life out of mine.

As for the MP3s (from another message), yeah, I use a 128 CF card.  It truly isn't that cost effective, but as i was working at CompUSA and got the Zaurus for 300 and the card for like 30, i wasn't gonna complain too much.  Let that be a lesson: Find a compUSA that will let you work only saturday or sunday and take full advantage of employee purchase!!

www.myzarus.com has an area for developers, if anyone is interested.  They usually run contets ever other month or so, i think.

Liam

----- Original Message -----
From: J Aaron Farr <jaaronfarr at yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 10:36:41 -0700 (PDT) 
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: RE: [wplug] Zaurus Users


> 
> --- "Weber, Larry A" <laweber at switch.com> wrote:
> > I have heard stories that the battery life is pretty short on the Zaurus.
> > What is your experience?
> > 
> 
> I've been using mine very heavily since I got it about a week or two ago.  In
> general, I can go a day or two without recharging under normal use, although I
> wouldn't really suggest it.  Generally I recharge daily (which isn't an issue
> since I just dock it at my computer at work or home when I'm there).
> 
> Playing mp3s or mpeg files seems to drain the battery faster.  However, I don't
> do that a lot with my Zaurus (yet), so I don't know how long the battery will
> last.
> 
> I do know that wireless (801.11b) cards can drain your battery dry pretty
> quick, but wireless cards to that to laptops too.  I tried it the other day and
> within about an hour I had drained the batteries fairly well (but the battery
> hadn't been at full charge to begin with).  I bet you could get a couple of
> hours of wireless off a full battery.
> 
> My only real complaint so far about battery life is that the battery indicator
> is pretty lame.  It's not really accurate from my experience.  Perhaps there's
> a replacement application for it, I don't know.
> 
> jaaron
> 
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