Re: Should I swich over to the Darkside? Pocket PC

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 22:35:13 GMT, Jason <jasont@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
was understood to have stated the following:

>On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:42:25 -0400, Ted Kennedy Murdered His Pregnant
>Mistress <ausstu@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>>>But this is simply not true, unless the program is using alarms, or if
>>>>it has to wake up the device at a certain time eg to schedule backups
>>>>etc. And thats the same for Palms.
>>>
>
>>Well, given that Palm OS isn't by nature a multi-tasking OS, the
>>chance of leaving an app running in the background is greatly reduced.
>>:-D
>
>Like I said though, leaving for example "Pocket Word' or 'Pocket
>Internet Explorer' open in the background on PPC, and switching off
>the device has no impact on its battery life in my experience.

I don't believe that the person who originally brought the issue up
was discussing battery consumption while the unit was powered off.

>On the other hand, certain programs by their nature, are designed to
>wake up the device, such as setting alarms/scheduling backups etc. We
>install the program for this particular purpose only. This will use
>up battery life when the device is off, on both Palm or PPC, no
>matter which OS is more multitasking.

Excuse me? It's obvious that powering up the device and performing a
task is going to consume battery power. However, how many times does
the typical user's PDA power up to perform an automated task?
Realistically, my device powers up frequently due to the plethora of
alarms I have set, but the main battery drain comes from when I'm
reading on the device. AFAIK, the only app capable of running in the
back ground on my Palm is RealAudio, which suprisingly enough uses
*very* little battery power after it turns off the display.


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