I agree. People also forget about the various battery types...
the Symbol 17xx series have LI-Ion batteries, as do a good number
of the newer Palms. Then, you have to deal with the various
Symbol libraries (laser barcode scanners drain a LOT of battery,
the MSR takes some up as well...then you have those pesky Qualcomm
units, various Handspring attachments, etc.).
I'd think that it would be a pretty tough project to take every kind
of Palm unit and configuration into mind when desiging power consumption
api's...
-Rus
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dave Lippincott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 9:34 AM
>To: Palm Developer Forum
>Subject: Re: power estimation
>
>
>>
>> Hardware access would need to be sorted out through, e.g.
>how much power
>> does the UART chip use when the port is open, sending, etc??
>
>That part may be hard to nail down. Different models seem to
>draw varying
>amounts of power. I've even seen the current consumption vary
>between units
>of the same model. I guess you could figure it out through
>experimentation.
>
>
>
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