>>Well, thanks for the confirmation, guys. That's kinda disappointing. It >>can't take all that much work to provide a display that shows, say, tenths >>(or even quarters - <g>). Oh well...
> It wouldn't be that hard to have more increments on the scale, but it > still wouldn't be any more accurate. Well, even fourths would be more useful. > Designing an ACCURATE battery gauge truly is hard to do, especially if > the product will accept such a wide variety of batteries as the > *istDS. Yes, I guess I can see that... > In fact, I've never seen a product with an accurate battery gauge > in my entire life. Maybe NASA or the military have some devices with > accurate battery gauges, but I've yet to see that sort of thing in a > retail product. Well, my laptop has an (apparent) granularity of 1%, and Windows XP's Power Meter also (allegedly) reads to 1%, and the two readings agree within 2% most of the time, so I guess that they are a whole lot better than the "full", "half-full" (or "half-empty"), and "empty" DS scale. However, I do have to admit that the laptop battery is a "known quantity" - my laptop does not give me the option of substituting, say, a bunch of AA's - <g>. Fred
