SJ-20 Battery question

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Hello again. First off, thanks to Eric S for anwering my questions!

I've got another quick question about the SJ20 battery. I have read that the color displays(in general) are a major drain on the battery pack. How long does it last between charges and how long will the pack go before it needs recharging? How many months will it go before it needs replacing, where can you get it done and for how much$. We have a Circuit City in town, but thats about it as far as sony Clie dealers. Whew, I know that's a lot to ask(sorry).

According to your reply, either way you have to put the code into the internal memory? If I want to write an app that is 10MB I will have to have the SJ-20 right? This may be a deciding factor that I did not know about.

Also note for future refrence that the SL-10 does have the white backlight (straight from their site: - Enhanced backlight for better viewability in poor lighting conditions).

I tried posting this message under the previous thread, but it wouldn't let me with out registering. As soon as I get my PDA I'll register, Sorry for the inconvienence, and thanks again Eric S.

[Eric S]

You're welcome. I saw the mention of the enhanced backlight, but didn't consider it a definite.

Even the SJ30 has a remarkable battery life. I found that when using older (AAA-powered) PDAs using Alkaline batteries, the batteries would last 4-6 weeks. The Li-Ion rechargable batteries seem to last closer to 6-14 days, depending on usage, but I'm pretty sure that we're using them more. It's not an issue, really, because you set up your cradle, and drop the PDA in the cradle overnight once or twice a week (my wife has a routine where she plugs in her SJ-20 ever night when whe plugs in her cellphone), and you'll never come close to running out of battery power.
Yes, either way, the program has to be in internal memory. If you've got read-only data that you don't need to keep around all the time, then you can keep it on the Memory Stick and write your program (or use MSMount) so that it only takes up RAM while you have a reference to it.

I doubt you'll write a 10MB app. A smaller app with that much data is easy to believe, but the largest app that I know of (minus data) is 4MB, and it isn't hard to write a program that keeps its (read-only) data on Memory Stick.