From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Campaign for Tablet which runs Emacs closes soon Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:18:34 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fvcm51uf.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418311166 24861 80.91.229.3 (11 Dec 2014 15:19:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:19:26 +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 16:19:18 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 1Xz5WO-0006hy-OU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:19:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52024 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz5WO-0000W1-9j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:19:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43834) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz5W7-0000Vl-06 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:19:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz5Vz-0007Os-Gc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:18:58 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz5Vz-0007Ob-9j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:18:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xz5Vv-0006L0-4o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:18:47 +0100 Original-Received: from 169.15.136.127 ([169.15.136.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:18:47 +0100 Original-Received: from dboyd2 by 169.15.136.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2014 16:18:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.15.136.127 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:YhxGPW78EgyJNnOc1riQPISsN14= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:101519 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > 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 On the Samsung it gets longer runtimes because there is another battery in the keyboard.... Dave