Great minds think alike: I was halfway through a similar article when Kevin C. Tofel of jkOnTheRun posted an article about the fantastic battery life of the C7M powered Samsung Q1b. Another great mind, Steve Paine of umpcportal.com, was in progress making a related video.
Apparently, it was the C7M vs Battery testing day in the UMPC blog world. This is likely hot off the heels of the first Intel McCaslin UMPC news.
Since actual battery technology is stagnating, the advances in battery life are going to come in the forms of:
- Better chipsets
- SSD or hybrid hard drives
- LED backlit screens
- Passive cooling, if possible. I had a VIA EPIA 800 based home-built briefcase computer that was later featured on VIA's EPIA Case Mod Gallery. After I destroyed the first motherboard (What do you mean "a car's 12V socket sometimes puts out 14.8V?") I replaced it with a fanless EPIA ME6000. I was shocked at how well a computer can run with no fans.
- Solar power recovery. While a fully solar powered UMPC may be a little far fetched, it would be possible to extend a UMPC's on-the-road life with solar cells.
- Creative battery design. Lithium Polymer batteries can be formed and shaped much more than Lithium Ion cells. It may be possible to tuck extra juice into some nooks and crannies on UMPCs.
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Verizon is about the only place you can get the authentic RIM product and matching door. Most other sites are out of stock and even when they are in stock they have the black battery door which looks like crap.
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