http://www.aa.net/~desmoine/omnigo/omnigfaq.htm
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> These are good questions. I am currently working on a list of question, to
> ask in a Ogo Ram survey. I should have an preliminary questionare for review,
> in a few days. Hopefully this will help future users contemplating add on Ram
> cards.
In your survey, you should probably ask people to use Battery Watcher for
more accurate accessments of their experienced battery life. I've been
using Battery Watcher myself, and notice a big dip in the battery meter
curve whenever I check after my OmniGo reads or writes to my flash (or SRAM)
card. The dip seems much greater when writing to my flash card. Strangely,
this greater dip also occurs whenever I use Pocket Quicken, which resides
on my flash card, even though my data is stored on the internal ramdisk.
One thing is certain: Using a memory card to run apps will cause greater
battery reading fluctuations; thus, the OmniGo will likely give you a low
battery warning significantly sooner than otherwise even though battery
power is not actually quite so low yet. This may also cause very brief
taps on the backup battery on such occasions, but it's unclear how much
it'd affect the backup battery's life.
Domenic, you probably do not need to hurry on the survey since not everyone
will have used Battery Watcher for even one full battery lifecycle; I
haven't since I was roughly halfway through my current Duracell alkalines
when Battery Watcher became available.
_Man_
PS: Please forward this to the OGO mailing-list on my behalf as before.
Thanx. (Did it!)