11-06-2003, 10:00 PM
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Dell Axim X3i - Amazing Stand-by Battery Life
This is so crazy I can hardly believe it: I received a Dell Axim X3i from Dell on October 18th, and it was fully charged before I left on October 19th. I brought the charger with me for the Pocket PC Summit/CTIA, but I didn't plug in the device. My usage was very light - I had the device powered up for a total of perhaps two hours over that week doing demos of a forthcoming Spb application. Since returning from Vegas, the Dell X3i has been turned on perhaps half a dozen times, WiFi used here and there. Today I powered it up, half expecting it to be dead, and was shocked to find that it still had 36% main battery power and a full backup battery. That's over three weeks of standby time! This certainly wasn't a scientific test, but I've seen similar (though not quite as good) battery performance from the X5 I have. I don't know what voodoo magic Dell's ODM (Wiston?) did to get these devices to have such awesome standby time, but they should share some of that mojo with HP - anything based on the classic iPAQ design has a standby time of days rather than weeks, which has always irked me (the 2000 and 1900 series are much better).
Kudos to Dell for making battery life such an important part of their Pocket PC design!
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11-06-2003, 10:02 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Hmm... I've heard much drearier stories from other places.
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11-06-2003, 10:21 PM
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Executive Editor
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Originally Posted by Skoobouy
Hmm... I've heard much drearier stories from other places.
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Really? Like what? Remember, I'm talking about standy battery life not day to day runtime battery life.
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11-06-2003, 10:32 PM
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5000+ Posts? I Should OWN This Site!
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With maybe 3 hours of usage on my X5, I got about a week of standby time before the battery (and backup battery) drained completely...
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11-06-2003, 10:49 PM
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Philosopher
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I haven't done any formal tests, but my Jornada 568 seems to have very long standby time. I have used Jornadas for years and Casios before that. Standby time has never even come up as an issue.
Of course, because of pride, HP's iPaq team has disavowed knowledge of the Jornada and its technology.
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11-06-2003, 11:14 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Actually, it seems that anything but an iPAQ has good to excellent standby time. The high drain of the iPAQs has been and still is my major gripe with the Compaq/HP hardware.
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11-06-2003, 11:26 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Other than PPC drain many other things can effect battery life...
Type of battery
Quality of battery
Age of battery
Devices installed in PPC
Ability of charger to fully charge the battery
Software???
I've got Dell X5 now and it's been great, unless I forget to remove the WiFi card. My old iPaq seemed to be good at first, but quickly fell off with age, then with the upgrage to 2k2, myself along with many others started reporting decreased battery life.
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11-07-2003, 01:37 AM
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2000 Posts And This is All I Get?
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Originally Posted by Kati Compton
With maybe 3 hours of usage on my X5, I got about a week of standby time before the battery (and backup battery) drained completely...
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Battery life is one most important aspect that pulled me toward axims. I run running voice GSM from 6 am to 10 pm nonstop (with screen off), run mp3s for hours, play some games, a lot of ICQ messaging, etc. and I never have the battery dropped below 40% at the end of the day. 3400mAH battery is simply marvelous.
When I am using the regular 1400mAH battery, I can still run running voice GSM from 6 am to 10 pm nonstop and do a lot of ICQ, but I have to cut down a bit on mp3 playing and games.
Axim rules ! :mrgreen:
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11-07-2003, 03:49 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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Is this standby time with machine off completely?
Sorry dont mean to be impolite. But when you say standby time, do you mean that the machine was off with no communication devices open? If so I think most PDA can do that. Unlike a cell phone a PDA does not have to have radio turned on, so standby time is really off time.
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11-07-2003, 05:12 AM
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Re: Is this standby time with machine off completely?
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Originally Posted by foresscum
Sorry dont mean to be impolite. But when you say standby time, do you mean that the machine was off with no communication devices open? If so I think most PDA can do that. Unlike a cell phone a PDA does not have to have radio turned on, so standby time is really off time.
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Not really since you, at minimum need a slight charge to the RAM to keep from losing all your info. Until reciently Pocket PC's have not had a good track record when it came to standby batt life.
I think in the future any review should include standby time in addition to your more traditional batt life reviews.
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