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True enough. But for this to truly happen you need to have a device with a battery that you can feel confident will last all day with regular use.
by akgerber 16y ago
True enough. But for this to truly happen you need to have a device with a battery that you can feel confident will last all day with regular use.
- andrewljohnson 16y agoI have a Brunton battery pack and a 6W solar panel. My devices stay charged in the back-country :)
- gaius 16y agoAbout 10 years ago, I arranged to have everything powered by AA batteries - even my PDA and my phone (it was a Motorola brick). Everything but my laptop, but the PDA (a Psion 5) would do in a pinch. GPS and CD player as well. Torch. Alarm clock. Nowadays I don't think you can even buy stuff to do that with, everything has a proprietary battery and charger.
- listic 16y agoYes, that tendency bothers me as well. If you want to buy that kind of stuff that is powered by commodity batteries, you are really limited. Some recent stuff you should be able to buy easily (though they are powered by AAA betteries, actually): iriver T60SE mp3 player http://www.iriver.com/product/view.asp?pCode=001&pNo=73 http://www.iriver.com/product/view.asp?pCode=001&pNo=73 WikiReader http://thewikireader.com/store/ http://thewikireader.com/store/ but, alas, those are few and I feel like these things go against the general direction of technological progress.