[buckyg]

Mine's usually in the cradle during the day at work. It's nice to have my to-do list or email up on a separate screen so I can stay working in the same windows on my PC. I can just glance over at my iPAQ to see what I need.

On the weekend or overnight, I may plug it into the spare cradle at home or use the charge & sync cable, if the battery goes down low enough.

I just wish my wife would learn to put hers in the cradle if she's not using it. It's either sitting next to her cradle or by her bed for several days. If I see it, I plug it in. About once or twice a month, I have to help her restore from backups after recharging it, since the battery died.

[buckyg]

Mine's usually in the cradle during the day at work. It's nice to have my to-do list or email up on a separate screen so I can stay working in the same windows on my PC. I can just glance over at my iPAQ to see what I need.

On the weekend or overnight, I may plug it into the spare cradle at home or use the charge & sync cable, if the battery goes down low enough.

I just wish my wife would learn to put hers in the cradle if she's not using it. It's either sitting next to her cradle or by her bed for several days. If I see it, I plug it in. About once or twice a month, I have to help her restore from backups after recharging it, since the battery died.

[Kacey Green]

Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

Well, Pocket PCs "run" through their battery, even if they're plugged into a charger. If you take out the battery and leave the AC connected, the Pocket PC will not turn on. So, it's "always" using the battery; whether or not it continues to charge during a soft reset is something I don't have an answer to, and I'm not sure it makes a huge difference one way or the other.

--janak

I see my old nino would run without the battery (if it was connected to AC power) but it was also nimh so maybe that's just part of the adjustment to a more advanced device

[Janak Parekh]

Originally Posted by ckacey

I see my old nino would run without the battery (if it was connected to AC power) but it was also nimh so maybe that's just part of the adjustment to a more advanced device

Hmm. Then it's a more modern thing, or it isn't consistent across manufacturers. Nevertheless, I think most do run through the battery nowadays.

--janak

[Kati Compton]

I wouldn't say that's dependent on the battery's chemical composition, but instead just the design of the device. I mean, I run my laptop just on AC without the battery in it.