This is what I am planning to do. Sitting in a cradle it will act like a mini dedicated touchscreen. I have also heard that the AXIM's have excellent IR range and may look into putting all of my Home Theatre control onto it.
Jim Dibb Wrote: > One solution to the battery life is to keep a charging cradle in your > 'listening area'. Then set it there when you're not using it. If the > cradle is in a convenient enough spot, you can use it while it's > actually on the cradle. > > Another thing to think about is that the unit will 'stand by' every > few minutes of inactivity. I've found that it takes a little while to > get the wifi connected upon coming out of standby, so it's not going > to be instant response like most remote controls. > > If you're in a position to leave it on the cradle, you can leave it > 'on' all the time and not go into standby. > > On 4/20/05, padolph <padolph.1nsrmz (AT) no-mx (DOT) > forums.slimdevices.com> wrote: > > > > > Seems like battery life might be the downer for this approach. I > forgot > > about that aspect. I checked aximsite.com and it seems that with an > x5 > > you get no more that 2 hours with Wifi on, which confirms what > 'philip > > bouscarle' reported. I will have to think more about how I plan to > use > > this to see if this will actually be a problem. For comparison, > Sonos > > claim that their remote battery lasts 2-5 days per charge. -- bjmacdow _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
