Igor Stoppa wrote: > No, the LED is off by default and the power-savvy user will wisely keep > it off and even switch it off if it gets accidentally enabled. > If you are more interested into running your device for longer time than > having that disco effect, keep it off. Full agreement on that. > The LED is meant to tell you, at basic level, "I'm alive even if the > screen is blank". Plus some other things like "You have email/You have > missed calls". The first one is bad, the second may be good (if desired). >> I am aware that Bluetooth&Wlan power management is very good and that >> it probably is not that relevant for power management to explicitely >> kill all connections when putting the cover on the device. > yes, arguable choice, but it can be disabled. Not on my 770, for sure... > 770 wasn't explicitly sold as always-on and therefore connectivity got > killed by default. UI and marketing choices .... "arguable"? Good choice, I think he was somehow implying. > Sorry if we have undermined your mental landmarks, but you just have to > adjust to the always-on concept. That's the fashion of the day. I see you're looking for flames: great, bring 'em on! ;-) I do appreciate your post about kernel timers, polling, and app developer responsibilities, and heartily hope you're being sarcastic here. Put another way, who gives a [____] about the fashion of the day? > Yes, we gave up the shrink division and hired more developers :-D > No, unfortunately that's only my wild dream. Good thing the programmers are *not* running the asylum. ;-P -- Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ In the developed world, we do not have a shortage of IPv4 addresses at this time. [...] In the developing world the situation is already dire. In some places, entire universities are hidden behind a single routable IPv4 address, and in others, NAT's are as much as 5 levels deep. -- Jim Gettys, June 2006
