N900 ( was Re: [ILUG] Android phone availability in Ireland?)

[Braun Brelin]

Toshiba is apparently releasing a product that addresses battery life on
mobile electronics...

http://www.toshiba.com/taec/news/press_releases/2009/dmfc_09_580.jsp

I have no idea whether or not its available for sale in Europe, nor do I
know anything
about its efficiency.

Braun


On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:28 AM, CP Hennessy <cp.hennessy at openapp.ie>wrote:

> On Sun 18 Apr 2010 13:51:07 Robert Grundulis wrote:
> > On 26 March 2010 13:10, CP Hennessy <cp.hennessy at openapp.ie> wrote:
> > > On Fri 26 Mar 2010 11:34:19 Philip Trickett (List) wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 11:14 +0000, CP Hennessy wrote:
> > > > > Even though the N900 is not available in vodafone shops it is
> > > > > available online (depending on your package you can get it for as
> > > > > low as €269). However the chappy in the Jervis St vodafone kiosk,
> > > > > who was kind enough to let me have a go on his n900, told me that
> > > > > vodafone will only have
> > >
> > > it
> > >
> > > > > on it's website for a few more weeks as o2 have the license to sell
> > > > > it in Ireland.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've just ordered mine and look forward to spending much to much
> time
> > > > > playing with it.
> > > >
> > > > So, is an N900 users group on the card then? ;)
> > >
> > > I guess that any more than 2 people would be a group ;P
> > >
> > > CPH
> > > --
> >
> > Me ma got me an N900 for my birthday. It's pretty amazing.
> >
> > Nokia are cool about people rooting them and doing what they want. If you
> > try to sudo at the terminal, you are told to install a package to enable
> > root access, but that if you make a mess of the phone it's your problem.
> >
> > There are no OS restrictions at all, I had Apache and mySQL running on it
> > just for fun. It's also pretty nippy too.
> >
> > The only downer is that it eats batteries for breakfast. I am lucky to
> get
> > just over a day out of it without making any calls. I'm sure higher
> > capacity batteries will make it to market though.
>
> It seems that most(all?) smartphones are battery hungry.
>
> But there are obviously several things you can do to help:
> - install the app so that you choose the phone mode : 2G, 3G, dual
> - change the screen brightness and timeouts
> - do not automatically connect to a network
>
> ... and all of the other standard linux power hungry items you would also
> do
> on your laptop, including :
> - turn off bluetooth (unless you want to listen to the FM radio as they are
> on
> the same chip)
> - do not have too many dynamic items on your desktop
>
> I guess the extreme would be to disable everything which is not directly
> associated with making and receiving phone calls. I'm guessing that this
> should give you several days of power. But whats the point in that ;)
>
> CPH
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