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Pepper Pad offers Linux Web tablet for sofa surfing (Buffalo News)
The Buffalo News reviews
the Linux-based Pepper Pad 3. "Even if the universal
remote function had worked, its usefulness would be limited by the Pad's
battery life of about two and a half hours. The sleep mode would extend
this, but you wouldn't want to wait even 9 seconds for your remote to boot
up every time you wanted to pause a DVD. The battery life issue isn't
unique to the Pad - it's something that bedevils the whole
field. 'Wireless' Web tablets just don't seem that useful if have to keep
them plugged in."
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Nokia 770 has excellent battery life and instant resume, but no infrared. Posted Dec 21, 2006 17:32 UTC (Thu) by shapr (subscriber, #9077) [Link] Sounds like they want a Nokia 770. From a fully charged battery my Nokia 770 gets about 16 hours of use time, and several days of standby time. It goes from sleep to awake faster than I can click the screen twice. On the other hand, the 770 has 802.11b/g and bluetooth, but not infrared, so maybe it wouldn't be a good remote.
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