Comments on: Barbecue Area http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/12/26/barbecue-area/ Durable Laptop Batteries Tue, 30 Apr 2013 01:48:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: James Morrison http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/12/26/barbecue-area/#comment-30066 James Morrison Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:27:01 +0000 http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/12/26/barbecue-area/#comment-30066 Its working again, I guess I should have proceeded with caution like any new model and waited the 3 months or so for them to sort out the major bugs.

Not the only person to suffer from it/>

]]> By: James Morrison http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/12/26/barbecue-area/#comment-30065 James Morrison Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:27:54 +0000 http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/12/26/barbecue-area/#comment-30065 It appears to have gone into a coma once again :(

Its actually seems quite stable when it boots up.

The video center application is very smart, there is a service from YouTube and Reuters designed for it and you can add other RSS feeds with video enclosures.

The reuters news items work very well on it and its an excellent way of watching the news, I hope the BBC are considering doing shorter video download items like this.

The inbuilt mapping application works ok and is integrated with the GPS reciever, but the downloadable Google maps application works a lot better for my needs.

The browser works quite nicely, and the inbuilt loud speaker is quite powerful.

Getting an exchange done next week.

]]> By: James Morrison http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/12/26/barbecue-area/#comment-30064 James Morrison Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:07:54 +0000 http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/12/26/barbecue-area/#comment-30064 It came to life a couple of times, long enough to upgrade the firmware (a major revision number).

I think its shocking that Vodafone are putting out the phone with a version of the firmware with obvious problems.

Battery life is pretty poor, I think the wifi is a big drain on battery.

The reliability of the wifi is also pretty poor,

]]> By: dougiebeck http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/12/26/barbecue-area/#comment-30063 dougiebeck Wed, 26 Dec 2012 01:52:06 +0000 http://blog.laptopbatterylife.com/2012/12/26/barbecue-area/#comment-30063 Hmm. I’ve been reading a few horror stories about the N95 – battery life seems to be a HUGE issue, and what you are describing is quite familiar. When I called Vodafone to upgrade a few weeks ago the person I spoke to practically told me not to bother with it…

You getting it replaced?

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