netBEUI
05-06-2003, 07:38 PM
My first PDA was a Sony Clie PEG-S300 then palm m505. My current PDA is a HP Jornada 568 and I'm on the list to get the freebie Viewsonic V37. I want to make the V37 last as long as possible and I learned a few things along the way which I'd like your advice on.
On the Sony I played so much solitaire that I damaged the top right corner of the screen from tapping that area to deal cards. You'd think I would have learned from this but sure enough my current HP has a mark on the upper left corner from tapping the Start Menu and the upper right corner from tapping the X to close the current app. This mark is very hard to see, most people wouldn't notice it. But I can clearly see it if I angle the screen to a bright light. Ever since I realized this I mapped a hardware button to the Start Menu and another hardware button to a program called ZapIt which kills the current app. I am definitely going to follow this route when I get the V37 but I wanted opinions or suggestions on how anyone else out there gets around without using the stylus or using it as little as possible.
I read somewhere that lithium-ion batteries can only be recharged a certain amount of times. The V37 battery is not replaceable. Apparently the 900mAh lithium-ion battery in the V37 will die or severely diminish after 500 recharges or about 18 months if you recharge it every day. My questions are:
1. Is this true?
2. If this is true, is there any problem with draining the battery almost completely before recharging? (My thought being that this will prolong the life of the V37)
3. How many of you, if any, unplug the AC power to your cradle and ONLY plug the AC power when the battery is very low? In other words, would it be severely anal of me to only plug the USB portion of the cradle 100% of the time and plug the AC power part ONLY whenever I need to recharge?
Any advice or feedback is appreciated.
On the Sony I played so much solitaire that I damaged the top right corner of the screen from tapping that area to deal cards. You'd think I would have learned from this but sure enough my current HP has a mark on the upper left corner from tapping the Start Menu and the upper right corner from tapping the X to close the current app. This mark is very hard to see, most people wouldn't notice it. But I can clearly see it if I angle the screen to a bright light. Ever since I realized this I mapped a hardware button to the Start Menu and another hardware button to a program called ZapIt which kills the current app. I am definitely going to follow this route when I get the V37 but I wanted opinions or suggestions on how anyone else out there gets around without using the stylus or using it as little as possible.
I read somewhere that lithium-ion batteries can only be recharged a certain amount of times. The V37 battery is not replaceable. Apparently the 900mAh lithium-ion battery in the V37 will die or severely diminish after 500 recharges or about 18 months if you recharge it every day. My questions are:
1. Is this true?
2. If this is true, is there any problem with draining the battery almost completely before recharging? (My thought being that this will prolong the life of the V37)
3. How many of you, if any, unplug the AC power to your cradle and ONLY plug the AC power when the battery is very low? In other words, would it be severely anal of me to only plug the USB portion of the cradle 100% of the time and plug the AC power part ONLY whenever I need to recharge?
Any advice or feedback is appreciated.