were you downloading maps on the go over cellular or had you cached in advance? I find Maemo (or perhaps my GPS) seems to think I am moving at times when I am sitting still -- like at my desk. With tracks on, I can see my location float a bit... otherwise, it's a very cool program. On 4/12/07, Michel Brabants <michel.brabants at euphonynet.be> wrote: > Hello, > > I just had a trip to Frankfurt for my company and took the N800 with me. I > used it to map the road and a colleague used it to browse the web for a > second (ebay). I looked at the screen from time to time, ... The trip took > around 3 hours, but I also used it during the evening to get some food and > back and also to go to the hotel. In total maybe around 5 hours for mapping > and looking where to go (Tomtom failed at a moment and we didn't know that a > reset would help ... and radio-navigationsystem doesn't have precise maps of > Germany. So, 2 gps-systems and maemo-mapper to the rescue :).). Anyway, I'm > very pleased of battery-time. I didn't use Wlan really yet however. So, I > can't comment on the Wlan. For the rest, I'm very happy up till now to have > bought the device. > > Greetings, > > Michel > > Op Thursday 12 April 2007, schreef Laurent GUERBY: > > FWIW, my globalsat BT-359 GPS linked via bluetooth to my N800 running > > maemo mapper on during a whole Paris-Toulouse-Castres TGV (high speed > > train) trip ran on one charge taking 19910 data points from > > 2007-04-06T08:25:02+02:00 to 2007-04-06T15:11:46+02:00 so a bit less > > than 7 hours, resulting .gpx file is 2.6MB for about one data point per > > second. I turned the N800 off with one bar left when I reached the end > > of my trip. > > > > I turned on the screen from time to time to see the speed of the train > > so this is not a bluetooth only check, and maemo mapper was > > running of course. > > > > The only thing is that I had to switch sound off because top > > speed warning in maemo mapper is limited to 300 km/hour and the TGV is > > sometimes above it during the trip :). > > > > All in all I assume bluetooth doesn't consume that much. > > > > Let us know your experience. > > > > Laurent > > http://guerby.org/blog/ > > > > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 12:37 +0900, Brenton Bills wrote: > > > Greetings folks, > > > > > > Well there has been a bit of talk on WIFI power usage for the N800, > > > just wondering if it uses less power than bluetooth or the same or > > > what? Also wondering if the N800 can listen to bluetooth requests > > > while in sleep mode or if that would just kill the battery too quick > > > or even if thats possible? I was thinking of seeing how difficult it > > > would be to be to push say nagios alerts to the N800 over bluetooth > > > and cause it to wake up if it gets such a request? Pushing stuff from > > > my computer to the N800 would be cool. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > maemo-users mailing list > > > maemo-users at maemo.org > > > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > > maemo-users mailing list > > maemo-users at maemo.org > > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > -- Jonathan Greene m 917.560.3000 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com
