While not having done as much extensive research as Neil, grin, my brother, who is sighted, says that the screen curtain effectively shuts off the display, while still making it sensitive to touch, so, the less amount of light being emitted by the cell phone only stands to reason that it would save battery life.
Having said that, it's been my experience that my battery drops more quickly when my screen curtain is off doing the exact same thing, as when the screen curtain is on, so I guess in this respect, the research I did was experiential. Smiles. One can even take this a bit further using a laptop as an effective means of understanding the concept. If one puts a laptop side to side with a screen-less note taker, one finds that the note taker uses up it's battery life a great deal longer than the laptop. Even if using a laptop compared to a netbook, especially those utilizing a solid state hard drive, the smaller screen means less in the way of power needed to form the picture on the screen, especially comparing the 17 inch screen laptop to the minute 7 to 11 inch netbook screens. In conclusion, the less power you need to run something, the more battery life you'll save. At least that's been my experience. Victor Gouveia Vice-President Training Coordinator VIP Tech Tel: 1-(888)-737-1115 Fax: 1-(888)-737-1116 vipt...@rogers.com victor.gouv...@rogers.com Limiting Disabilities with Limitless Possibilities -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
