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[The Wikipedia article is about how long the batteries keep charge, not how long the batteries last before they degrade. A vastly different thing.] Unfortunately your guess is wrong. These batteries have terrible shelf life. I have bought new batteries for my phones and gadgets numerous times...

Well, considering that li-ion/li-poly batteries have a supposed shelf life of 3 years.. if they weren't stored in a freezer, or at least cool, they will have detoriated somewhat. BTW: Why wait with giving the go-ahead for the video cables? I mean, at least for those of us who ordered the...

You could well be right. Interesting idea, anyway.

Is there any possibility for a Java applet plug-in for Firefox? That's the only thing I really need Java for.. every bank in my country is using a java applet for their common log-in system.

The problem with switching channels is that usually that's not an option :) You can only do that at home. Not at work (unless you're your own employer), and never at those places where I use my wi-fi-enabled mobile devices: Cafeterias, libraries, pubs, bookshops, all those public places. (I...

The 2 full-size SD slots is _the_ reason I ordered the Pandora. Those must never be given up, for space or anything. The flaws, as I can see them without actually having received my Pandora yet, seems to be with the wi-fi which may not entirely be a software problem only. Let's hope that's not...

The reason these devices pop up that message isn't to protect the battery, it's to get you to remove the charger because the charger may still eat some current. And vendors are now mandated (in some regions) to pop up that message to reduce the 'stand-by' wasted current. The irony is, of course...

You couldn't download a general version for sure, because that would be the wrong architecture. But that's not the only option. Skype already runs on ARM so they already ported it. N800, N900 are the Linux-based versions. As far as I can tell the N800 version is a build based on one of the early...

The N900 doesn't drop below 250 MHz I believe. People tried 125 MHz but there wasn't much point as I understand. And the N900 still lasts much longer than the Panda, even with its puny battery.. so the power saving must be looked for elsewhere, presumably in shutting off other parts as...

The patch, and also the alternative shell-only version, only affects processes with a tty. Which doesn't include e.g. graphical desktop tools. To quote one person on the kernel list: "The kernel patch discussed here *has* *no* *relevance* for normal users. The kernel patch discussed here...

What application, if any, is running when it lasts 30 hours? Or do you mean it lasts only 30 hours when doing nothing? If so, that sounds worryingly like there's a long, long way to go with the power optimization. The N900 lasts much longer than that, and I thought it was pretty bad, battery...

You're not literally throwing it in the garbage I hope.. these batteries should be recycled and in any case never dumped in a landfill.

I can't - yet - haven't got my Pandora. But there must be someone else out there with both? Anyway, I'll test my E220 with the Pandora when I get it. A lot of time has passed now, but I did a lot of hacking and scripting and testing when I got my E220 working with my desktop and laptop...

So (glancing towards my Apple USB Ethernet dongle) one way forward would be to find some wi-fi dongle that plugs directly into an Ethernet port and use it with the USB/Eth dongle.. :) I wonder if there is such a thing.

No, and this is important: The batteries don't have their own charging circuits. What they have is a protection circuit, and it's there for an entirely different purpose. Don't mistake them for charging circuits, they aren't. It should be fairly safe to replace with a slightly smaller battery...

The Freedom keychain GPS should work fine as it's about as standard as can be (standard chipset, one of the good ones, speaks NMEA etc.) And people use it with e.g. the Nokia N800. That price is not the cheapest I've seen though. Other good ones are e.g. the one I have, Holux M1200, also...

There's one sitting right beside me on the table. They're not as unusual as you may think. And I don't agree with your analysis about handhelds vs. desktops either, except those handhelds with non-replaceable batteries. With replaceable batteries there are lots of folks who like to swap...

I haven't got my Pandora, but with desktop or laptop Linux boxes my Apple USB ethernet device comes up as eth0 (or sometimes eth1, if udev has been renaming stuff).

Even with a built-in "huge" replaceable battery I still think it would be better if it also had an additional button battery solely for the RTC. It would allow the device to be completely off in its "off" state. I suspect that the mechanism necessary for powering the RTC via the big battery in...