[geeks] Looking for a Mobile Phone

[Michael Parson]

On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> On Aug 19, 2009, at 15:36 , Michael Parson wrote:
>
>> I also found out, on a recent trip, that if you have the screen set  
>> to never time out and screen brightness set to full, with the GPS  
>> on while using the Google Map app, the car-charger doesn't supply  
>> enough juice to keep it going...  4 hours down the road, the batter  
>> was running out, even though it had been plugged in the entire time.
>
> Wow.  That's just amazing that they would release a device with a  
> serious design flaw like that.

> You sure it isn't a bad charger?

It might have just been the car-charger I use.  It's not a real HTC  
one, it was some generic mini-USB charger they had in the store.

> Maybe the next Android will fix that.
>
> Are the better batteries for G1 really significant and worth the  
> cost?  Anyone done a time comparison?

I'm still on the stock battery.  I just long ago gave up on having  
good battery-life on my 'smart' phones.  Just have chargers everywhere.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org