El mar, 01-07-2008 a las 13:22 -0700, steve escribió: > A deeper back cover is an option. The cad files are open. I also thought of > an external battery pack
What about this: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/travelpower/7d34/ ? The specs says: Output power: 6.58 Volts - 320 mA (max) in direct sunlight. Can it power the FreeRunner (power no just charge) ? > ( maddogg sent me some stuff on it). Lots of ideas, too little time > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 7:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Battery life & case design > > Mikko Rauhala wrote: > > ti, 2008-07-01 kello 14:35 +0200, Arne Zachlod kirjoitti: > >> Im not sure, but I think with an even thicker phone there will be > >> more no-geeks who dont care about the freeness who wont buy the phone > >> only because its thick and heavy (and such a phone would be heavy). > > > > Actually reading the text you would have noticed he was suggesting for > > someone (maybe Openmoko, maybe not) to produce a large battery back as > > an optional accessory, so your criticism misses the point entirely. > > > > For myself, I would be at least somewhat interested (depending on bang > > per buck, of course; it's not a must-have for me), for largely the > > reasons the OP mentioned. That is, simply for getting to have more of > > it on more of the time doing useful stuff. > > > > Power management is obviously important regardless, as is getting > > decent standby time with the default battery. (If anyone would like to > > offer a short summary to the community on how cpufreq and suspend are > > progressing, that would be interesting.) > > > > Thankyou, that is exactly what I was suggesting. For instance, I was > pretty > excited over the ideas for the mybot program (is that what its called?) > having a phone that alters its behaviour based on GPS and where you are.... > I'd like to take that idea further and include WIFI so the phone also knows > where it is based on what SSIDs it can find.... but can you imagine how long > the phone would last with GPS and WIFI turned on?? kind of makes the idea a > no go. > Which is a shame as such functionality really goes a long way to make the > phone a transparent and intelligent technology which you'd quickly be lost > without... also its something that most other if all other phones do not > do.... > > So in short if there is anyone who has the means to mass produce a new > deeper back cover for the phone so we can have a large battery in it then I > think it would be in our interest to pursue that. I'm sure as time goes on > there will be many other great software ideas for the openmoko/gta02 that > will require the goodies to be switched on at all times. > > I've had a gta02 for a few days now. It really interested me as a platform > for my various codings. My old mobile was a P.O.S so I started using the > gta02 as a phone straight away (which is fine with some tweaks). However, > already I have the habbit of getting to work and plugging the gta02 into my > PC's USB port.... thus whenever I leave the office for a while I usually > leave my phone behind which completely defeats the idea of a mobile :-) > > Regards, > > Jon > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- Diego Fdez. Durán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.goedi.net GPG : 925C 9A21 7A11 3B13 6E43 50DB F579 D119 90D2 66BB
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