Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 13:33:12 12/06/03
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On December 06, 2003 at 15:03:44, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >I think you miss an important point here. I bought the thouch chess device from >Excalibur when it got out one and a half years ago and can still play a game >with it with the original nonchargeable battery inside. It just work, no need to >think if there is any power left on the device. >The graphics can't compare with a PocketPC (I have Pocket GrandMaster) but it is >good enough to play a game with it and what more to demand. This is a point, but less of a point than it could have been. That the PalmOS connection to the PC is designed so that, to synchronise, it is _forced_ to be charged as well was a stroke of genius - one of many - by the original designers. (I suggest that a charger which did nothing else would have led to the battery running down much more often). Alastair
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