[geeks] Filling a gap for the Sidekick...

[sammy ominsky]

On ipe 28, 2004, at 08:40, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> Eric Dittman wrote:
>
>> I have an old Agenda VR3.  That was a good try, but the thing eats
>> batteries
>> like there's no tomorrow.
>
> A good rule of thumb is that the display backlight uses as much
> electricity
> as the rest of the electronics except for "wireless".

Ah, but the Agenda backlight only fires on command.

Actually, Eric, look for some of the later OS releases for the VR3. A
lot of early issues were fixed, and minimal battery life was one of
them. I was getting over a week of heavy usage on a pair of batts.


---sambo