cohenc
08-09-2003, 05:07 PM
Went into Detroit this afternoon for the football game and took along the iQue. A friend drop so I could play with the iQue throughout the trip... Of course, no battery charger.
Using the "trip computer" numbers, we drove 107 miles in 2:51 (including 23:41 stopped, meaning traffic stunk)... But the GPS was on and enabled for nearly 3 hours. Of course at various points it went into sleep mode. I had the brightness probably at 10-20%, I find only marginal improvement going above that and it's very readble at the low level (i.e. barely on)... I also have it set to "battery saver" mode - since most of the trip was highway.
As I was turning into my driveway, I got the notice of a low battery. The gauge seems to show an eighth of a tank remaining, although I can't be sure of that, or the lineariality of the gauge. It was probably used for 15 minutes without GPS since I took it off the charger this morning on top of the 2:51 of GPS usage. Nothing else simultaneous during trip navigation though...
I'm actually quite happy with the 3:00 expectation during the trip. I am sure if I had the screen on the full time, it would be somewhat less. Sometimes when it was asleep, I would wake it up to check the stats and goof around with it.
Trip calculation and re-calculation was quite fast. While in downtown, we decided to go home a different way and it did a bunch of quick recalculations as we were headed to a different highway/entrance than was the best way home (i.e. traffic) - it would recalculate before we could drive a city block at 35 MPH - not bad for a city based recalculate of a 50 mile trip. Add all these recalculates to the battery depletion, sure they are a hog of resources.
If you know the Detroit stadiums, or any "city stadium" you also know there are no "parking lots" just local empty lots where you pay to park. Was nice to be able to park, mark it as a waypoint and walk away without having to remember where you were (while praying your batteries wouldn't die!). Funny thing was as I was marking the waypoint, the parking attendant was telling us how to remember where we were (1.5 miles walk from the stadium, i.e. non-trivial return if one wasn't paying attention).
Loved it - like the battery life too, obviously wish it were more, but now I know I can expect 3 hrs of drive time which is nice.
Wish List Addendum: The "Que Turns" - ability to export to Memo Pad the textual turn list, miles, delta times, and direction, etc for printing from Palm Desktop or beaming to another Palm user (would be text only of course). Don't know if you can beam an actual "route" to someone either (another iQue that would have to be).
Cheers,
Caleb
Using the "trip computer" numbers, we drove 107 miles in 2:51 (including 23:41 stopped, meaning traffic stunk)... But the GPS was on and enabled for nearly 3 hours. Of course at various points it went into sleep mode. I had the brightness probably at 10-20%, I find only marginal improvement going above that and it's very readble at the low level (i.e. barely on)... I also have it set to "battery saver" mode - since most of the trip was highway.
As I was turning into my driveway, I got the notice of a low battery. The gauge seems to show an eighth of a tank remaining, although I can't be sure of that, or the lineariality of the gauge. It was probably used for 15 minutes without GPS since I took it off the charger this morning on top of the 2:51 of GPS usage. Nothing else simultaneous during trip navigation though...
I'm actually quite happy with the 3:00 expectation during the trip. I am sure if I had the screen on the full time, it would be somewhat less. Sometimes when it was asleep, I would wake it up to check the stats and goof around with it.
Trip calculation and re-calculation was quite fast. While in downtown, we decided to go home a different way and it did a bunch of quick recalculations as we were headed to a different highway/entrance than was the best way home (i.e. traffic) - it would recalculate before we could drive a city block at 35 MPH - not bad for a city based recalculate of a 50 mile trip. Add all these recalculates to the battery depletion, sure they are a hog of resources.
If you know the Detroit stadiums, or any "city stadium" you also know there are no "parking lots" just local empty lots where you pay to park. Was nice to be able to park, mark it as a waypoint and walk away without having to remember where you were (while praying your batteries wouldn't die!). Funny thing was as I was marking the waypoint, the parking attendant was telling us how to remember where we were (1.5 miles walk from the stadium, i.e. non-trivial return if one wasn't paying attention).
Loved it - like the battery life too, obviously wish it were more, but now I know I can expect 3 hrs of drive time which is nice.
Wish List Addendum: The "Que Turns" - ability to export to Memo Pad the textual turn list, miles, delta times, and direction, etc for printing from Palm Desktop or beaming to another Palm user (would be text only of course). Don't know if you can beam an actual "route" to someone either (another iQue that would have to be).
Cheers,
Caleb