From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:26:37 -0700 Message-ID: <20141211131924395544039@bob.proulx.com> References: <87fvcm51uf.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418329631 22972 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2014 20:27:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 20:27:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 11 21:27:06 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 1XzAKG-0000S8-Jo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 21:27:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54228 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzAKG-00059Z-5m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:27:04 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43420) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzAJw-00059B-UI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:26:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzAJs-0004oV-4c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:52397) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XzAJr-0004oL-To for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:26:40 -0500 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE762182C for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:26:38 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0621D2DC2E; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:26:37 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 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:101529 Archived-At: 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