How to maximize your phone’s battery performance by Palm!?
Palm, Inc. just released Palm Self-Paced Learning Guides for their smartphone series; it’s sort of cool for users to walk through a dynamic guide rather than just plain user guide.
When I got in there, my curiosity took me to the guide of Centro immediately. Everything seems decent, not much detail but Palm provides you enough information for new users. However, there is a Tips & Tricks section that made me Oh-O!! It’s Maximize Battery Performance. See it by yourself.
First two are okay, some may not know that Li-ion doesn’t like to be drain-out. This definitely helps. Nonetheless, the third one make me think that Palm should NOT be in smart-or-stupid-phone market at all. They want us not to use our phone and turn it off. Why should we buy the phone but plan not to use it then? What is the point of mobility? let all calls be picked up by voicemail, LOL!!
Have you ever heard any manufacturer tell you this–buy phone but not to use it? Please, go back and work on only your great PDA, Palm.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X300: back to Premium!
Oh, man! this ThinkPad is so cool. It’s almost no compromise in design with countless features, such as ThinkLight–I really missed it, Roll Cage, Stainless steel display hinges, shock mount HDD, LED backlight, mic, camera, fingerprint, spill resistant keyboard, 802.11n, Bluetooth, Opt. WiMax/WWAN in this small chassis which is also hardware removal/installation friendly.
Battery light is also great as well with
- 4.3 hours with 3-cell battery (3.13lbs)
- 6.5 hours with 6-cell battery (3.32lbs)
- 10 hours with 6+3-cell batteries (3.51lbs)
I have no idea about 6+3-cell batteries how it would be though–thru dock? However, 6.5 is impressive already, you maybe just carry another battery, then you will be all set. What you are sacrifice is faster CPU, instead they choose to pop Intel Core 2 Duo LV 1.2GHz 4MB L2 cache. I prefer longer battery life as always though.
BUT, sadly I couldn’t afford it. With the premium price tag–$2,700. That’s super far beyond my reach. At least, ThinkPad X300 is a dream machine of most people. I wish Thinkpad X200 will be almost the same with HDD and low price tag as X61s or X70 will be out soon.
X300 Brochure leaked via Forum.ThinkPads
X300 take apart via Forum.ThinkPads
update (Feb 26, 2008): After coupon and else, we could actually get this cool ThinkPad around $2,100-2,200. Not bad, not bad at all! (but still couldn’t afford it :-/)
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InkSeine is out!
Finally, it’s released one day earlier than what we knew at the first time, Valentine’s gift probably. You can go grab it here.
Since it’s BETA, it would be impossible that it is bug-free program. See the limitation here. However, that’s not going to make this great program bad at all. We all know that we could workaround this anyway.
To improve this program, don’t forget to tell what you think to developer Thus, we will have better program in any perspective. But for now, I have to go testing InkSeine myself.
Have fun.
updated: comments, suggestions, feedbacks via gottabemobile forum — here you will learn lots of thing also.
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Dell XPS One (PRODUCT) RED wallpaper
This is basically XPS One in red, it might not be interesting one at all for someone. However, there is one thing that is really cool about it which is Wallpaper. I bet many thought like I do.
Thus, today I grabbed all of wallpapers of XPS One (Product) RED. They are so cool as it looks in the web site.
Here they all are for you I forget to tell you that they all are 1680×1050. But you won’t have any weird feeling using on 4:3 screen like using on my Thinkpad X61T
(Click to see full-sized wallpaper)
Enjoy!!
more info about (PRODUCT) RED
updated (Feb 20, 2008): Mirror (if above doesn’t work):
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First take: fixing loose Fujitsu S2110’s power jack
Actually, if you have Fujitsu laptop, you are likely to have this problem since this is just a bad selection of power jack, or I could say that it’s a bad design instead. Nonetheless, it has been served me very well since late last year. No one wouldn’t disagree how good Fujitsu is though.
The problem is when you plugged the power jack, it randomly disconnected. You had to move the power adapter tip a bit to get it work properly again. Since I’m setting a brightness when plugged in and on battery differently, so I found this problem is really bothering me; it just keeps switching brightness back and forth any time I move my laptop. In my opinion, it is because the power adapter tip isn’t that smooth at the edge and when you plug it in, it does have some trigger (to avoid loosing power jack perhaps). That, however, it’s the bad part; the more you plug in and take out, the more power jack on the print circuit (and/or its mechanism) is loosing. I bet you won’t find this problem with Apple Magnetic power adapter and many other manufacturers.
Well, I don’t know if I’m good at explaining this situation. But I know that the picture says thousands of useful words.
You may know what is the cause of this problem now and you might have a solution already too. As you know, this is a first take; I won’t do anything much since I found that soldering of DC power jack is still good enough, there is no need to take it out and find a replacement. At first, you have to get this part out. (if you don’t know how to do, take a look at this. It might not cover this part truly, it gives you an idea though.)
I took a look at this part to see how to fix this for a while.
I found that if you could fill two holes I showed above to prevent DC power jack moving, it might help. You know? I tried that but no luck; I had nothing that can fill that out. Thus I came up with another idea which is finding something to put in between DC power jack and print circuit making it more solid and securely attached.
It’s working beautifully by inserting a paper (in fact, I should find some non-arc thing like plastic) between them. I haven’t found any random power disconnection for few weeks by now. I know this is not permanent solution, but the phrase, “If it works, don’t fix it,” is always a good solution. When this problem shows up again, you will see another solution indeed.
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