From: Eckhart Köppen (eck1001_at_gmx.net)
Date: Tue Mar 09 2004 - 14:01:53 PST
On Sat, 06 Mar 2004 08:39:17 -0500, Mark Rollins wrote:
> I settled on a Sony Clie UX50. Not cheap, but when you add 512MB memory
> stick and the requisite battery pack (total only a bit thicker than the
> Newt) you have a package that costs less than the MP2000.
One thing that annoys me about the current crop of PDAs (and the iPod)
is the battery life and battery design in general. While adding the
internal Bluetooth module to the Newton, I learned a bit about the
Newton's power management and have to say that this is probably
unmatched in the PDA world.
A PDA has to be something I can totally rely on. I can just put the
Newton somewhere and forget about it. I don't have worry about the
battery running low when I'm not using it. And even if the battery ran
low, it certainly would not lose any of the internal data. The best
thing: I don't have to worry about carrying along a power adapter, I
can just get AA batteries!
Any PDA which keeps me worrying about stuff like this is of no use for
me... cell phones are bad enough to keep charged.
In the long run, it gets even worse. The trend to non-replacable
batteries with custom form factors is quite bad. I want to keep using
my PDA for a couple of years, so what will I do if the battery dies
completely? I'd probably have to get a new PDA or buy an expensive
replacement battery (see e.g. the iPod).
Show me a PDA that uses plain AA batteries and uses flash memory, and I
might get interested (I haven't looked thoroughly, maybe something like
this exists already?)
Eckhart
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