On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Andrew Crystall wrote: > On 18 Oct 2007 at 0:08, Russell Chapman wrote: > >> Andrew Crystall wrote: >>> People carry spare batteries for electrical equipment, including >>> mobiles, all the time. I keep a spare, charged mobile battery in my >>> backpack. >>> >> I'm curious what battery life you get from your phone. I bought mine > > ~4 1/2 hours. It's not been enough on several emergency occasions. (I > generally charge it once per week and it's typically down to ~25%) > >> because it was so tiny, and it connects via bluetooth to the car for > > "Tiny" is bad, afaik. I want one which is deacent sized so I can hit > the keys. And something like bluetooth afaik is a gimmick. I have a > laptop for that...
While I am completely in line with your comments about the iPhone's manifold weaknesses (I'm completely surrounded by Apple Fanboys at work, so I know whereof I speak), I can't agree about bluetooth. I use a bluetooth headset lots of time while on the phone in the car, and it beats the hell out of arriving at destination, opening the door and having my Blackberry go flying out into the parking lot because the earphone cable was tangled in the seatbelt... I admit that I get out of my car rather quickly, and that I am a bit of a klutz, but having a bluetooth headset is a boon. Also, I have paired various phones with my laptop as a modem, which has given me network (albeit rather slow network) when I would otherwise have been offline. Whether this is, in the largest sense, a blessing or a curse is still under consideration. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
