I've been reading about battery problems or differences in battery use on
the mPower units since they were released. I just received my voiceNote
mPower on Monday. I charged it up and had to do the calibrate function
because the unit informed me calibration was needed. I haven't installed
any external cards or other devices yet but see at least ten percent fall
in battery power every day, even if I don't use the unit for more than a
few minutes. On my old VoiceNote running KeySoft versions 5.x and 6.11,
and with a 1 gig compact flash card always installed, I would only lose
about five or six percent of power a day under the same conditions. I
would guess the faster processor must account for the higher battery
drain. I will be doing more with the unit over the next week or so and
will be interested to see just how fast the unit kills the battery under
real life use. By the way, I just checked the bluetooth option on my unit
after reading a message warning about its drain potential, and my unit's
bluetooth is still turned off.
Richard Ehrler
