[LUNI] Making my own PDA

[Larry Garfield]

Patrick R. White wrote:

> Gee, I have the Zaurus SL-5500 and the battery is really the weak link. 
> You have to charge it every week or it can go dead real quick like!  I 
> can look at the battery one day at 100% and two days later it is 30% and 
> I haven't used it in those two days at all!   Too many times the battery 
> was so dead the unit wouldn't even boot! :-(

Yes, the 5000d/5500 had serious battery life issues.  I've got a 5600 
here for testing (I'm overdue to write a review of it, I need to do that 
tomorrow...) and the battery is MUCH better.  The new memory 
architecture is interesting as well.  Definitely worth a look.

The catch is that while the software has improved, I still feel that 
OpenZaurus is a much better software system.  I don't know if they've 
got that working on the 5600 yet, though.  It's been a while since I 
checked.

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