Re: Lost my programs

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From: Zevi Barekt (bareket_at_comcast.net)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 23:19:32 -0500

Tim,

I am not even going to reduce myself and respond to your hint that I'm a
liar. I already have two babies to deal with at home -- I don't really need
another virtual baby.

To clarify myself to the rest of the people here, hoping perhaps to get
comments about the life expectancy of the battery: I've been using Palms for
over 6 years now. When I'd go on vacation, sometimes as long as 2-3 weeks,
my use of the PDA would become very limited: pretty much calendar and
contacts only. I *never* bothered taking a charger with me! My m505 would
never get under 25% charge under these conditions. Moreover, I never had to
be burdened with the thought about how long I can leave it unattended.

Recently, the m505 got damaged. I wanted to take the opportunity and explore
the PPC world, since I'm interested in some applications for PPC that do not
exist for the Palm.

Is the 4350 an overkill? Maybe. But I liked its form factor and the
keyboard. I am, however, finding out that it may be too "delicate".
Furthermore -- I couldn't find any hard case for it! If on top of that the
battery is going to be such a critical issue, than maybe I should re-think
the PPC.

Cheers,
Zevi.

"Tim Branyen" <tim@webestablish.com> wrote in message
news:eO1dvgL$DHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Here's a simple resolution to your problems. Open the built in iPAQ
Backup
> utility and set it to backup before it runs out of power. Then viola all
of
> your data will be backed up when you come home. Judging by how quickly
you
> seem to get rid of your iPAQ it leads me to doubt you even bought one.
That
> is such a useless excuse when you actually use an iPAQ, especially the
4350.
> Anyways there you go a solution to keep you happy.
>
> Tim.
>
>
> "Zevi Bareket" <zevi_bareket@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:cSt%b.2549$Nz2.51538@news.itd.umich.edu...
> > > You didn't charge it for nearly a week, no wonder the
> > > battery died. The RAM is kept viable by using the battery -
> > > unlike a PC there's no Hard Drive to write the info to.
> >
> > This is ridiculous! You want to tell me that if I do not touch my iPaq
for
> > 1-2 weeks (leave it off), it will drain and loose everything???
> >
> > I just bought a 4350. I had a Palm m505 before that. Sometimes I would
> leave
> > the Palm untouched for days or a couple of weeks -- it hardly "nicked"
the
> > battery charge.
> >
> > If what you say is true, and the iPaq sucks the juice out of the battery
> > when unattended for a couple of weeks, resulting in loosing my stuff --
> I'm
> > sending this baby right back!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Zevi.
> >
> >
>
>

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