TheAlgo
01-08-2006, 07:29 AM
I had recently purchased a UX50 from ebay. Very happy with it, just want to ask a few questions
1. The unit was in near new condition, but I have found the battery life to be very poor. I know that this seems typical of the UX50 But i only seem to get around 2 hours battery life out of it and that is just by the brief experimentation (not continious movie playing, game playing etc). I assume that when i put it in the charger and when the light turns green, that indicates that it has been charged fully.
Observing the battery meter after shows that the battery has been charged at 100% and then this gradually goes down.
I have read somewhere that a 'Cradle Reset' can be performed to allow the device to be charged properly, although in my case the battery gauge does not seem to be off? Any ideas?
2. The custom processors of the UX50.. The Sony UX50 has both GFX and Audio processors to take the load off the processor when playing media. Just how powerful are they? I also have a Tapwave Zodiac system running at 200mhz and it can easily play back 480x320 DivX video with 128kbs MP3 running at 25fps and benchmarked at around 160%, That is blistering fast
On the other hand, The Sony UX50 can just about playback DivX at 320x240 at 100% CPU load. (This is running the latest version of TCPMP (71d) and using the HHE plugin. Maybe the Decoding is not fully implemented in hardware yet. I know the Zodiac has 200Mhz processor in comparison with UX50s 132mhz but there is too much of a speed difference (eg 480x320 full divX on zodiac and it is only using around 60% load) Is the Zodiacs accelerator more advanced? (I think its processor has multimedia capabilities as well - Hardware MP4 decoding) as well as its 8mb ATI 2D chip.
3. Just how fast is the internal player (MQV) in comparison with TCPMP? and what convertors are recommended for creating these files (apart from Image Convertor 2)
1. The unit was in near new condition, but I have found the battery life to be very poor. I know that this seems typical of the UX50 But i only seem to get around 2 hours battery life out of it and that is just by the brief experimentation (not continious movie playing, game playing etc). I assume that when i put it in the charger and when the light turns green, that indicates that it has been charged fully.
Observing the battery meter after shows that the battery has been charged at 100% and then this gradually goes down.
I have read somewhere that a 'Cradle Reset' can be performed to allow the device to be charged properly, although in my case the battery gauge does not seem to be off? Any ideas?
2. The custom processors of the UX50.. The Sony UX50 has both GFX and Audio processors to take the load off the processor when playing media. Just how powerful are they? I also have a Tapwave Zodiac system running at 200mhz and it can easily play back 480x320 DivX video with 128kbs MP3 running at 25fps and benchmarked at around 160%, That is blistering fast
On the other hand, The Sony UX50 can just about playback DivX at 320x240 at 100% CPU load. (This is running the latest version of TCPMP (71d) and using the HHE plugin. Maybe the Decoding is not fully implemented in hardware yet. I know the Zodiac has 200Mhz processor in comparison with UX50s 132mhz but there is too much of a speed difference (eg 480x320 full divX on zodiac and it is only using around 60% load) Is the Zodiacs accelerator more advanced? (I think its processor has multimedia capabilities as well - Hardware MP4 decoding) as well as its 8mb ATI 2D chip.
3. Just how fast is the internal player (MQV) in comparison with TCPMP? and what convertors are recommended for creating these files (apart from Image Convertor 2)