From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Thorpe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:58:48 +0000 Message-ID: <87fvcm51uf.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418266766 9114 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2014 02:59:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:59:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 03:59:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XytyG-0000uO-Nq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 03:59:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48878 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XytyG-00012O-AM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:59:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57459) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xytxy-00012H-S9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xytxr-0003fF-LP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:58:58 -0500 Original-Received: from outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com ([81.17.249.38]:38975) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xytxr-0003eu-Fh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:58:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.blacknight.com (pemlinmail04.blacknight.ie [81.17.254.17]) by outbound-smtp05.blacknight.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 84B1198626 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 02:58:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: (qmail 13293 invoked from network); 11 Dec 2014 02:58:49 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO RTLaptop) (rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com@[109.76.224.139]) by 81.17.254.9 with ESMTPSA (DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 11 Dec 2014 02:58:49 -0000 In-Reply-To: (dboyd2@mmm.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 81.17.249.38 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:101518 Archived-At: dboyd2@mmm.com (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. BR, Robert Thorpe