Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon

[J. David Boyd]

Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:

> J. David Boyd wrote:
>> Robert Thorpe writes:
>> > J. David Boyd writes:
>> > > A friend of mine has a Samsung brand of Android tablet.  Gets
>> > > about 8 hours battery life.  When he connects the keyboard, it
>> > > adds ~7 more hours batter life.  That's the kind of keyboard I
>> > > would like.
>> >
>> > I expect most tablets would give better battery life with a
>> > keyboard.  Capacitive touch-screens use quite a lot of power.
>> > There's been a lot of work recently on reducing that.  It's
>> > getting better gradually I believe.  I work for a company that
>> > used to design chips to drive them.
>>
>> On the Samsung it gets longer runtimes because there is another
>> battery in the keyboard....
>
> Sounds like the ASUS Transformer tablet keyboard combination.  There
> is an auxilary battery in the keyboard.  While the keyboard is
> attached it uses the keyboard battery first.  I know someone with one
> of these and they like it quite a bit.
>
>   
> http://www.trustedreviews.com/asus-eee-pad-transformer-review-keyboard-and-battery-life-page-2
>
> Bob

Hmm, you're right.  Wasn't Samsung, was ASUS Transformer.  The owner loves
it. He gets about 15 hours between charges using it plugged into the
keyboard.  And the keyboard feels pretty good, as well.

Dave