Re: Any reasons why I shouldn't buy a Dell Axim X50v ?
From: Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] (neil_at_nospam.com)
Date: 02/22/05
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Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:46:49 GMT
>I would be curious as to what different uses people put their Axims to which
>require long battery life away from a power source? I'm sure there are a
>few. Those people better have an extar battery, or at least the extra sized
>(2200maH?) one.
I did a couple of flights to the US from the UK and back. Thats about
8-10 hour air travel time, plus coach transfers (about 3h). I took my
standard 950mAh battery and the 1800mAh fat battery I got free when I
ordered an Axim X3i. The batteries were about 3 months old (the fat
battery had never really been used).
In total I got through 1.5hour video and about 6 hours of music during
travel on the way out, also reading a few ebooks and so on. The
batteries weren't empty though I forget the actual charge level.
On the return trip, I watched the video again (next time I'll take a
1GB card with 2 or 3 movies on !), listened to about 8 hours of music
and took & reviewed about 20 photos and 3 minutes of AVI video of the
Rockies, with the Veo SD camera - nice to have a window seat ;-)
At that point (on the return coach from the airport) I had about 10%
capacity in the standard battery, and about 12-15% in the 1800mAh
battery. In both trips, I had the screen brightness at 2 notches out
of 5, and volume at high (on the airplanes).
So probably taking the big fat one for movies and video, and the
standard for audio is going to get you about 10 hours or so before
you're seriously needing to charge them.
I guess I could have surreptitiously plugged in at the airport cafe
for 2 hours while I changed flights, that would have taken the
standard battery back to near 100%.
Cheers - Neil
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