Dead Battery/Memory loss fixed?

[Altaman]

Can someone tell me if Sony has fixed the problem where if your yuor Clie goes dead, whatever is in it will be lost unless you had the opportunity to sync?

My wife has THe N760 and I know she has lost some stuff a couple times. I am looking at the NX series for myself and wonder if this is an issue anymore?

Thx,

[n2ifp]

When you lose your battery, you lose you data.

The NZ90 has a backup battery, but I don't know how long it will last.

[Rick 098]

Carry around a 9v batt charger.
Wont fully charge Clie, but it will provent it from, going dead.

[contempt]

From my experience, the NX70 has a 10% buffer (meaning if the battery level goes below 10% the unit will shut off automatically guaranteeing you won't drain your battery to 0. Of course, if you try turning it back on everytime you might eventually drain it). I've experienced this traveling and yes, back in the day when I had an N710 my battery would die and so would all my files.

[Raybot]

The memory cells in the Clie (and pretty much all PDAs of this type) require power in order to maintain their information. Some PDAs (such as the NZ or those that use AAA batteries like the Palm III series) have a capacitor or small secondary battery that keeps the memory cells powered for a few minutes whilst you change batteries or find a charge point, other PDAs such as the Clie have a 'reserve' feature where they will forcefully disable things and ultimately turn the PDA off if the main battery is too low (in the hope that it'll have enough residual charge to keep the memory cells alive until you next get to charge it) ... but there doesn't exist any practical way of keeping the data alive in the PDA 'forever' unless you save it to flash memory (such as a memory stick). Note that the memory cells in the memory stick are different to those on the Clie in that whilst the former needs no power to keep its information (I think the rated data retention time without power is 40 years or so), it reads and writes a LOT slower than the internal memory of the Clie.


- Raybot