http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=6395

I know there is the above thread which asked about battery life and how it factors in music playing, but I thought I'd ask in a poll.

For me I've been weighing the iPod Touch and the N800. I want the N800 most, but battery life is my biggest concern. For the Touch, my biggest concern is reading PDFs without having to jailbreak or use stupid hacks (I've searched and found a buncha ways to convert/save PDFs, it's just dumb... there are reasonable things that Apple should've done but they didn't). I know there's going to be an Apps store in June...

Your thread was exactly 12 month old, how about something more recent, http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...d.php?t=20117?

NITapps reports 11 hr.

bun

How would I know? I don't sit around for 8+ hours listening to music and doing nothing else...

Is this a realistic use case for you?

I guess I'm the only person with the idea of walking around town or on photo trips with an MP3/media player that very well could take several hours.

While I was in Japan, I walked around with it playing all day, off the SD card. Lasted pretty much exactly 8 hours, in offline mode, and locked, using the stock media player.

My feet hurt thinking about walking that long...
Even when I am walking around, I usually find other things to do with it. (Jot notes, log a GPS track if it's not somewhere I go often, play games, write programs...) Guess I'm just the sort of geek that can't leave a computer alone when it's in arm's reach...

Sorry if it seemed like I was criticizing you; it just seemed surprising that anyone would actually use it that way.

It's ok.

But yeah, I have an iRiver Clix - it does MP3/video/radio/pictures and ... TXT. I definitely need a more robust replacement (especially to put some semblance of maps or JPG 'maps', PDF reading, along with a decent media/music player) and the N800 seems to really fit the bill.

I know it's not a dedicated music/media player, but I'd be happy to get 10 hours out of it - perhaps 8. My clix, I dunno... it can go a few days with several hours of use a day, before needing a charge.

If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say about 8 or more, but I don't think I've ever left it more than 2 hours without other use.

I do think it'll fit what you want pretty nicely (Maemo Mapper is awesome, BTW), but you might need extra battery capacity; there are some AA/AAA or rechargable Li-* battery packs available that you can connect to the charging port, while its in your pocket. If I went roving like that, I think I'd get one.

If you want long battery life for playing music, your best bet is really an el-cheapo flash MP3 player. My old 1 gig iRiver gets around 40 hours of MP3 playback on a single AA battery.

In my usage of the N800, playing back MP3 files stored on the device don't adversely affect discharge time all that much. I tend to use the built-in speakers the most (especially for talk show podcasts), but I would think there would be a small gain in battery life by using good quality headphones.

Streaming live Internet radio is also something I do regularly. This really does drain the battery quickly though since the wifi chip pretty much has to run at full tilt to keep the bits flowing, even though the required bandwidth is relatively small. I get maybe 3-4 hours after a full charge if I'm streaming audio so I tend to keep it plugged in when listening to streams.

Are you referring to those battery "boosters" that you charge up and use when you need it? What exactly do I need to search to find this, regarding the BP-5L battery?

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