Re: Question for OpenMoko: can we please buy just a battery?

2008-02-21 Thread Marcus Bauer
For those with a soldering iron I can recommend mintyboost [1] Works great here, two AA batteries extend the life of the Neo for about two hours. As it is a dumb charger you need to manually activate fast charge, otherwise the Neo will only pull 100mA. Make sure you test the output voltage

Re: Question for OpenMoko: can we please buy just a battery?

2008-02-21 Thread Kyle Bassett
I can second this. I have used a similar design in some mobile handheld prototypes, holds up quite well! Much more efficient. -Kyle On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Marcus Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those with a soldering iron I can recommend mintyboost [1] Works great here, two

Re: Question for OpenMoko: can we please buy just a battery?

2008-02-21 Thread Nick Guenther
Okay, but let's not get distracted: can we *just* buy a battery? ((Some of us don't have skills with a soldering iron (yet).)) -Nick On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Kyle Bassett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can second this. I have used a similar design in some mobile handheld prototypes,