danramos | # 41 | 2011-03-22, 22:26 | Report

How about a correctly designed, working USB port? That might work!

misanthropisht | # 42 | 2011-03-23, 11:39 | Report

I surrender, you have beaten me at playing internets with this incisive, witty comment.
It would somewhat mitigate my humiliation if you could at least give me a hint why an inductive charging wouldn't work. I stupidly thought it would be a fun experiment.

danramos | # 43 | 2011-03-24, 01:19 | Report

Because it's highly inefficient and you're far less likely to carry around your induction pad or find one freely available in a cafe or restaurant and a whole HELL of a lot less likely to see induction pads on the seats in an airplane. Just saying.

F2thaK | # 44 | 2011-03-24, 01:43 | Report

next best choice: a brand new N900

Joseph.skb | # 45 | 2011-03-24, 02:13 | Report

Get a spare battery??? I'll be travelling from this weekend, so I'm going to get a spare battery to keep my N900 alive.

Joseph.skb | # 46 | 2011-03-25, 04:00 | Report

Just got a new (original) Nokia battery. Charged it the whole night yesterday, still full bar until now with slightly heavy usage. Does this mean?

• The 6-mth old battery was has degraded (by now, normally reduced 1 bar)?
• Problem with the battery indicator?
• Longer charging = longer lasting?

Will continue to monitor the battery differences. By the way, anyone knows how BatteryGraph monitors new batteries vs old (because I noticed the mAh and mv were the same)? Does it even matter?

misanthropisht | # 47 | 2011-03-26, 09:27 | Report

Interesting. However, my post stated that an induction charger would be preferable to swapping batteries all the time, which had previously been suggested. What you've written does not appear to be pertinent to the discussion because, unless I am mistaken, an induction charger would not preclude you from swapping the battery when necessary. Although it is nice to know you must travel in a better quality of aircraft than i do.

danramos | # 48 | 2011-03-27, 04:48 | Report

Don't all airplanes pretty much have powered USB ports on all the seats nowadays? I mean.. that's what I've seen and I travel cheap. :P Last time I travelled, though, was by Amtrak train from Massachusetts to Colorado and back, and that had two standard AC ports along every seat. I imagine induction charging the whole time would have been both a little weird and space consuming (have to lie the thing down on it all day. All I had to do was plug in my tablet and phone via USB adapter and it didn't matter whether they were sitting on the tray at my seat or stored away in a pocket or a bag while plugged in (i.e. while I sleep).

I'd still argue that a well designed, repaired or working port is preferable to swapping out batteries as well as induction charge for every reason stated--and it does appear to be in line with the conversation despite your disagreement. Thanks, though, for trying to make me feel like I travel around in higher quality... I'll try to remember that next time I'm buying the bargain coach fares.

kingoddball | # 49 | 2011-03-27, 10:03 | Report

Buy a new toy. Just experiment with new toys. Try WinMo.

I grabbed an iPad 2 - no real reason except it's a brilliant ebook reader. N900 is too small to read on (eye strain).

Get a high powered phone like LG Optimus X2 and just run Maemo in a chroot! Best of both worlds!!!!

azkay | # 50 | 2011-03-27, 10:47 | Report

Ive yet to be in a plane with any form of charger (usb, laptop, etc). Maybe its a first class thing.

I will never buy an LG phone, no matter which one or how powerful, ill constantly see it as a washing machine or something.