Registered: Jun 2002
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battery life

in the details of the visor edge (in their web page : www.handspring.com ) says the battery lasts for 1 month, and the other models such as the visor PRO/ NEO/ and others have battteries that last for 2 months, is this really a big diference and should i consider the time diference at the moment i decide which model to get?

any help will be apreciated...

ov

Registered: Feb 2002
Location: Midland, MI
Posts: 92

Re: battery life

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Originally posted by oscar_v3
in the details of the visor edge (in their web page : www.handspring.com ) says the battery lasts for 1 month, and the other models such as the visor PRO/ NEO/ and others have battteries that last for 2 months, is this really a big diference and should i consider the time diference at the moment i decide which model to get?

ov

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Registered: Nov 2000
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Battery Life really depends on how much you turn on your visor.

I consider myself a poweruser. I turn on my PDA on average about an hour a day. That may not seem a lot but from the few pdas i've used, a visor deluxe with alkalines lasts 2+ weeks. I tracked it with uptime and saw that alkalines give ~15-20 hours of uptime per charge. In comparison, rechargables, with half the mAH lasted only 10 hours of uptime.

When i moved to the visor edge, i tracked the same way by charing fully, then disconnecting the ac adapter and left it like that for a while. The visor edge batter only lasts ~10 hours of uptime. so it's comparable to 1 AAA alkaline.

I believe the "standard" usage pattern that palm and most other pda manufacturers use is using a pda for ~15 minutes a day. This is calculated from 20 hours spread over 3 months (what the palmIII's battery life was). That means by average usage, a visor edge should last ~month and a half.

Anyways, my POINT: visors do last a month or 2 if you only use them 15 minutes a day.

anyone else have a differing experience?