Yupper.
I don't remember actually turning off the phone, but I did it
overnight, when it wasn't automatically checking emails and no one was
likely to be calling me.
You are welcome for the remembrance. I enjoyed listening to him.
Didn't have a television until I was 12, and I have a difficult time
remembering who I only heard on radio and who I got to see some of on
TV, but to hint at possibilities, I remember when the NBC peacock was
born -- promoting color pictures on our b-w TV.
I don't have the history your dad had, but with any kind of luck a
few folks will recall with some favor my journalistic endeavors.
Richard E Johnson, MD wrote:
> Right - new batteries certainly are expected to need initial
> charging. So, you initially just charged it in the phone while using
> the phone, without ill effects?
> Thanks,
> Dick
> P.S. By the way, my Dad (career NY paper/CBS/NBC journalist) and I
> love(d) Eric Sevareid. Thanks for the remembrance.
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> Richard E Johnson, ScM, MD, DABA
> Palm/Treo 680
> Mac G4, iBook G3, PowerBook G4
> Lawton, OK 73505 USA
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> On Jun 14, 2007, at 9:18 PM, J Messeder wrote:
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>> Almost every rechargeable battery I've ever bought came with
>> instructions to charge it first. I also don't have a separate battery
>> charger, and though I could have turned off the phone (probably the
>> greatest battery hog), I didn't -- and mine's working just fine.
>> Had it
>> in Miami over a long weekend and got two full days of emailing and
>> telephoning and still had some battery left on the third day -- though
>> not enough I was willing to leave home without charging it.
>>
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>> Richard E Johnson, MD wrote:
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>>> I just bought a Seidio 2400 mAh replacement/extended battery for my
>>> 680. The only instructions tell me to charge it for 8 hours before
>>> putting it into my phone for the first time. I have never seen any
>>> prior mention of a requirement to pre-charge this battery outside the
>>> phone, and I have no external battery charger for either this or the
>>> OEM Treo 1200 mAh battery. What is going on here and how do I use
>>> this battery?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Dick
>>> -----------------------------------------------
>>> Richard E Johnson, ScM, MD, DABA
>>> Palm/Treo 680
>>> Mac G4, iBook G3, PowerBook G4
>>> Lawton, OK 73505 USA
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>
>>>
>> /“Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family
>> table.” /
>> (News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th
>> anniversary
>> of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64)
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