On Wednesday 17 January 2007 14:37, kenneth marken scribbled in crayon on the back of a kid's menu: > Christopher Heiny wrote: > > On Wednesday 17 January 2007 13:48, David Schlesinger scribbled in > > crayon on > > > > the back of a kid's menu: > >> On 1/17/07 1:44 PM, "kenneth marken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> hmm, i seems to be getting a bit of flak about this on osnews when it > >>> comes how bulky the phone can be. err, do people expect long lasting > >>> wifi from something with the bulk of a samsung ultraslim slider? > >> > >> We enjoyed the WiFi sleeves for the Compaq iPaqs when I was working at > >> Palm. Took the battery life of the device down to about forty minutes. > > > > I used an iPaq for a year. Even with a sleeve with an extra battery in > > it, power was in short supply. And the darn sleeve was so bulky, it > > was like carrying a brick in my pocket. > > something tells your trying to say that sleeves is a bad idea...
Gosh! Was it that transparent? :-) Actually, I don't know if sleeves themselves are inherently a bad idea. The iPaq's sleeves certainly sucked, but it's entirely possible that better implementations are possible. _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
