The Pepper Pad managed about 2 hours on a charge with Wifi turned on and brightness set to 70%. The folks at Pepper told me that the Plus would do better thanks to larger battery (but didn't state by how much). Their previous estimate (not at the Connections show mentioned in my article) was 3 hours.

The 770 and Pepper tackle some of the same tasks but I still see them as fairly different due to size (even the Pepper Plus is much bigger than the 770). The 770 is great for pocket-sized Internet anywhere with relatively good battery life. The Pepper is great for home and coffee house surfing when you don't want bleary eyes after an hour, want something that can survive the kids and perils of the coffee table and won't be away from an outlet for all that long.

Needless to say, they both are instant-on and don't run Windows which means no worries about virii and all those Windows service packs. The UMPC will be relatively high maintenance for a casual device but it still has its appeal for those who really need Windows apps. At $599 for the Pepper Plus, you'd think it could seriously hurt the UMPC, but I'm not sure if Pepper had the marketing power to go up against the likes of Microsoft and Samsung.

Lisa from MobileTechReview.com