Re: Best digital under $200?
- From: ASAAR <caught@xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 15:39:02 -0400
On Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:37:52 -0700, SMS, a 'carry on regardless'
kind of guy, wrote:
Many portable information products do not conveniently fit this pattern.
PDAs and cell phones are charged regularly but drained sporadically.
Some people give their PDAs only occasional use. Many, perhaps
most use them daily. Apps that provoke this use are the email and
calendar/appointment apps. Some people may place and receive calls
on their cell phones only occasionally (and I'm one of those), but
many people use them far more often. In any case, your hunt to
stack points in favor of your argument has led you into the
accidental trap of being totally incorrect anyway with regard to
cell phone usage. As I demonstrated in another message recently,
most (and I literally mean 'most') camera owners fully charge their
camera's batteries from only a couple times per year to a dozen or
perhaps two dozen times/year for quite active picture snappers. By
contrast, even if cell phones aren't used for many calls, many
people keep them powered on so that they are able to ring and allow
the owners to accept calls if they wish. Just keeping them on in
'standby' mode will use the batteries heavily enough to require them
to be charged weekly, if not more often. That's more than 4 dozen
full charges per year for minimal use of the phones, and represents
far more charges than camera batteries usually get.
These products need Lithium-Ion batteries.
Ha. I just demonstrated that you're wrong about the 'sporadic'
use argument. Indeed, my older Nokia cell phones never needed to
have their NiMH batteries replaced. I only stopped using them
because the carrier that the phones were tied to need to be changed.
Their batteries are still quite usable and they're now about 5 or 6
years old. Since I stopped using those phones and switched to Nokia
phones that use Li-Ion batteries, I've had to replace two of them
due to excessive loss of capacity. You're also mistaken about the
need for Li-Ion batteries where my PDAs are concerned. I'm still
using NiMH cells in mine, and have been for nearly 10 years.
Li-Ion batteries are good technology and can be used more
appropriately for some uses by some people, in some devices. But
with your need to show that they're almost always not only the best
choice, but the only one that should be considered, you scrape the
bottom of the barrel looking for more and more arguments to help
support your abnormal bias. They usually turn out to be bogus
arguments that end up making you look more and more foolish.
.
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