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I think I switched batteries with my girlfriend.. I borrowed her SIM card
so that I would be able to associate my phone with my google account.. before
I had it activated. And so I had the back off both phones (She has a G1 too).
Anyway my battery life sucks. I can't wait for my new battery.
Anyway my battery life sucks. I can't wait for my new battery.
And she's got an older G1 with a battery that might be worn down a bit?
I guess with smartphones you have to get into the habit of daily charging.
I used to go for half a week with my RAZR without putting it on charge. Is it true that with modern batteries you don't really worry about the memory effect anymore? [AThat was just ni-cd batteries, right?
I guess with smartphones you have to get into the habit of daily charging.
I used to go for half a week with my RAZR without putting it on charge. Is it true that with modern batteries you don't really worry about the memory effect anymore? [AThat was just ni-cd batteries, right?
You don't have to worry about memory, once you have fully charged/discharged
a few times. But you do lose life from charge cycles. As far as my battery
problem it turns out that the battery I ended up with was one my gf had been
struggling with for a while. We had another battery from her original broken
G1 which worked fine, so we are all good with battery for now. And I am waiting
for the double sized battery in the mail.
Ok, so considering that for all practical purposes you have to charge it every night, I would imagine that a typical smartphone battery would probably last a year to a year and a half before it needs to be replaced? As in, long before the phone wears out or becomes obsolete?
Well, it really depends. It's no different from laptop batteries.. sometimes
they last really well, sometimes they die way before their time. Most are
somewhere in between. But if you are a heavy user and you are constantly
recharging your phone just to keep it topped off, you are going to lose your
battery sooner.
Not my best, but it was off the cuff.
Apparently one of my best rants was my going away letter to AT&T. People still comment to me about it.
Apparently one of my best rants was my going away letter to AT&T. People still comment to me about it.
Are there any left? We turned off our dialup nine years ago, and even then,
nobody missed it. Modems are pretty much a defunct technology at this point
-- even more so now that everyone's starting to get mobile Internet connections.
I guess every fax has a modem built in? ;-)
most probably you won't get > 32kbaud through a modem?
One must wonder how long it will take for fax to go awayu.
On the other hand, it gave me an idea for a completely redundant product that would probably sell a lot of units anyway. We need a cheap, sheet-fed scanner that plugs into your office Ethernet and has a little keyboard at the front to enter an email address instead of a fax number. The recipient gets a PDF of the scaneed-in image.
Make it one-step and I'll bet a lot of technology-ignorant people would buy one.
On the other hand, it gave me an idea for a completely redundant product that would probably sell a lot of units anyway. We need a cheap, sheet-fed scanner that plugs into your office Ethernet and has a little keyboard at the front to enter an email address instead of a fax number. The recipient gets a PDF of the scaneed-in image.
Make it one-step and I'll bet a lot of technology-ignorant people would buy one.
I got one....from Ricoh. Fax, printer, scanner, document server. We've cut our paper usage by a significant amount by sending PDFs instead of faxing and printing everything. I bitched and screamed about it for months....I used to regularly recieve 47 page faxes and only use one page of it. Now everyone in the company scans and emails everything. The down side is I'm the only one that knows how to program new addresses into the server. They simply refuse to learn.
A dvd rewinder would be cheaper to produce however. A lot more margin there.
Faxes aren't going to go away for a while because they're still standard ubiqutous and in laws. pdf's aren't quite there yet and not everybody in the world has a scanner.
Faxes aren't going to go away for a while because they're still standard ubiqutous and in laws. pdf's aren't quite there yet and not everybody in the world has a scanner.
The "all-in-one" devices are too complex for technophobes who are unwilling
to let go of their fax machines.
This device needs to be dumbed down. As technology people we want to make it feature-rich, but that adds complexity. It must not scan, print, copy, etc. A single-function device. You feed it a document, enter an email address at the keyboard (which appears on a tiny LCD screen), and it emails the document.
Build with cheap Chinese labor and components, sell for well under $100, move zillions of units.
This device needs to be dumbed down. As technology people we want to make it feature-rich, but that adds complexity. It must not scan, print, copy, etc. A single-function device. You feed it a document, enter an email address at the keyboard (which appears on a tiny LCD screen), and it emails the document.
Build with cheap Chinese labor and components, sell for well under $100, move zillions of units.
This device needs to be dumbed down. As technology people we want to
make it feature-rich, but that adds complexity. It must not scan,
print, copy, etc. A single-function device. You feed it a document,
This holds true for cell phones too.
Helll yeah. My G1 is awesome but I've gotta press like four different buttons
to get to the screen where I can dial a phone number.