Superphone Face-Off: HTC Evo 4G vs. Samsung Epic 4G

If you haven’t thought about switching to Sprint, there are two very Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery good reasons staring you right in the face: the HTC Evo 4G and Samsung Epic 4G. As you can tell by their names, both devices can connect to Sprint’s fast 4G network (more than 50 markets and counting). However, while both of these Android phones sport 1-GHz processors and can record HD video, they’re pretty different beasts. The Evo 4G ($199) is a pure slate design with a 4.3-inch display, while the more expensive Epic 4G ($249) has a smaller but more brilliant 4-inch screen with a slide-out keyboard. And those are just some of the differences.

Yes, both of these Android superphones Dell Latitude 131L Battery are Editors’ Choice winners, but only one device can win this battle. Let’s get it on!

Design

The Epic 4G is slightly thicker than the Evo 4G (4.9 x 2.5 x 0.6 inches versus 4.8 x 2.6 x 0.5 inches), but that’s to be expected Dell Vostro 1000 Battery given that the Samsung has a slide-out keyboard. The Epic 4G is taller but narrower. Meanwhile, the Evo 4G is heavier (6 ounces versus 5.5 ounces), and you can feel this difference in your hand and in your pocket.

Still, the Evo 4G feels more like a flagship phone. It’s one solidly constructed slate, with capacitive buttons that work well and are always visible. We especially like the built-in kickstand on the back of the Evo, great for listening to music or watching movies. The glossy black front on the Epic Dell Inspiron 1501 Battery 4G is slick, but the buttons are nearly invisible when the backlight isn’t activated. Nevertheless, the Epic’s smoother contours make it fit especially comfortable when it’s being held.

Winner: Draw

The Evo 4G has a more premium feel, Dell Inspiron E1505 Battery and we love the kickstand and HDMI output, but the Epic 4G’s lighter weight and more rounded design give it equal appeal.

Display

If you went by the spec sheet alone, this would look like a pretty close matchup–the Evo 4G’s 4.3-inch screen is only marginally larger than the Epic 4G’s 4-inch screen and both phones have a resolution of 800 x 480-pixels. But when you turn these devices on, the Epic 4G’s Super AMOLED blows past the Evo 4G’s VGP-BPS9/S display. Colors were crisp and contrast levels were extremely sharp. The Evo 4G’s screen was also easily outclassed by the Epic 4G when it came to brightness–at maximum levels, images popped from the screen. The extra 0.3 inches on the Evo 4G certainly doesn’t hurt for applications like web browsing, but the difference in visual fidelity can’t be ignored.

Winner: Epic 4G.

The Super AMOLED display on this phone makes jaws drop.

Keyboard

The Epic 4G’s slide-out keyboard is what makes this phone stand out from the rest VGP-BPS9 of the Galaxy S family, and it’s pretty great. The keys are nicely spaced apart and offer good tactile feedback. We just wish typing “@” didn’t require a function key combo. However, the Epic 4G’s touch keyboard disappoints. The combination of an overly large text entry area and odd key placement scrunches together all of the onscreen keys, making it tough to accurately type. Fortunately, the inclusion of Swype software makes it easy to type words with one hand just by tracing your finger from one letter to the next.

The Evo 4G’s keyboard makes the most VGP-BPS9A/B of its large screen. The screen size makes it easy to type with minimal errors, and we like how you can press and hold various keys to enter special characters like numbers. Just be sure to turn off the haptic feedback; it slows down the typing experience.

Winner: Epic 4G

While the Evo 4G has one of the better touch keyboards around, the Epic 4G’s physical QWERTY is the best we’ve used on a good battery slider and is one of the main reasons to get this device compared to other Galaxy S phones. You never have to wonder whether you just typed the right letter.

Superphone Face-Off: HTC Evo 4G vs. Samsung Epic 4G

If you haven’t thought about switching to Sprint, there are two very Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery good reasons staring you right in the face: the HTC Evo 4G and Samsung Epic 4G. As you can tell by their names, both devices can connect to Sprint’s fast 4G network (more than 50 markets and counting). However, while both of these Android phones sport 1-GHz processors and can record HD video, they’re pretty different beasts. The Evo 4G ($199) is a pure slate design with a 4.3-inch display, while the more expensive Epic 4G ($249) has a smaller but more brilliant 4-inch screen with a slide-out keyboard. And those are just some of the differences.

Yes, both of these Android superphones Dell Latitude 131L Battery are Editors’ Choice winners, but only one device can win this battle. Let’s get it on!

Design

The Epic 4G is slightly thicker than the Evo 4G (4.9 x 2.5 x 0.6 inches versus 4.8 x 2.6 x 0.5 inches), but that’s to be expected Dell Vostro 1000 Battery given that the Samsung has a slide-out keyboard. The Epic 4G is taller but narrower. Meanwhile, the Evo 4G is heavier (6 ounces versus 5.5 ounces), and you can feel this difference in your hand and in your pocket.

Still, the Evo 4G feels more like a flagship phone. It’s one solidly constructed slate, with capacitive buttons that work well and are always visible. We especially like the built-in kickstand on the back of the Evo, great for listening to music or watching movies. The glossy black front on the Epic Dell Inspiron 1501 Battery 4G is slick, but the buttons are nearly invisible when the backlight isn’t activated. Nevertheless, the Epic’s smoother contours make it fit especially comfortable when it’s being held.

Winner: Draw

The Evo 4G has a more premium feel, Dell Inspiron E1505 Battery and we love the kickstand and HDMI output, but the Epic 4G’s lighter weight and more rounded design give it equal appeal.

Display

If you went by the spec sheet alone, this would look like a pretty close matchup–the Evo 4G’s 4.3-inch screen is only marginally larger than the Epic 4G’s 4-inch screen and both phones have a resolution of 800 x 480-pixels. But when you turn these devices on, the Epic 4G’s Super AMOLED blows past the Evo 4G’s VGP-BPS9/S display. Colors were crisp and contrast levels were extremely sharp. The Evo 4G’s screen was also easily outclassed by the Epic 4G when it came to brightness–at maximum levels, images popped from the screen. The extra 0.3 inches on the Evo 4G certainly doesn’t hurt for applications like web browsing, but the difference in visual fidelity can’t be ignored.

Winner: Epic 4G.

The Super AMOLED display on this phone makes jaws drop.

Keyboard

The Epic 4G’s slide-out keyboard is what makes this phone stand out from the rest VGP-BPS9 of the Galaxy S family, and it’s pretty great. The keys are nicely spaced apart and offer good tactile feedback. We just wish typing “@” didn’t require a function key combo. However, the Epic 4G’s touch keyboard disappoints. The combination of an overly large text entry area and odd key placement scrunches together all of the onscreen keys, making it tough to accurately type. Fortunately, the inclusion of Swype software makes it easy to type words with one hand just by tracing your finger from one letter to the next.

The Evo 4G’s keyboard makes the most VGP-BPS9A/B of its large screen. The screen size makes it easy to type with minimal errors, and we like how you can press and hold various keys to enter special characters like numbers. Just be sure to turn off the haptic feedback; it slows down the typing experience.

Winner: Epic 4G

While the Evo 4G has one of the better touch keyboards around, the Epic 4G’s physical QWERTY is the best we’ve used on a good battery slider and is one of the main reasons to get this device compared to other Galaxy S phones. You never have to wonder whether you just typed the right letter.

Superphone Face-Off: HTC Evo 4G vs. Samsung Epic 4G

If you haven’t thought about switching to Sprint, there are two very Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery good reasons staring you right in the face: the HTC Evo 4G and Samsung Epic 4G. As you can tell by their names, both devices can connect to Sprint’s fast 4G network (more than 50 markets and counting). However, while both of these Android phones sport 1-GHz processors and can record HD video, they’re pretty different beasts. The Evo 4G ($199) is a pure slate design with a 4.3-inch display, while the more expensive Epic 4G ($249) has a smaller but more brilliant 4-inch screen with a slide-out keyboard. And those are just some of the differences.

Yes, both of these Android superphones Dell Latitude 131L Battery are Editors’ Choice winners, but only one device can win this battle. Let’s get it on!

Design

The Epic 4G is slightly thicker than the Evo 4G (4.9 x 2.5 x 0.6 inches versus 4.8 x 2.6 x 0.5 inches), but that’s to be expected Dell Vostro 1000 Battery given that the Samsung has a slide-out keyboard. The Epic 4G is taller but narrower. Meanwhile, the Evo 4G is heavier (6 ounces versus 5.5 ounces), and you can feel this difference in your hand and in your pocket.

Still, the Evo 4G feels more like a flagship phone. It’s one solidly constructed slate, with capacitive buttons that work well and are always visible. We especially like the built-in kickstand on the back of the Evo, great for listening to music or watching movies. The glossy black front on the Epic Dell Inspiron 1501 Battery 4G is slick, but the buttons are nearly invisible when the backlight isn’t activated. Nevertheless, the Epic’s smoother contours make it fit especially comfortable when it’s being held.

Winner: Draw

The Evo 4G has a more premium feel, Dell Inspiron E1505 Battery and we love the kickstand and HDMI output, but the Epic 4G’s lighter weight and more rounded design give it equal appeal.

Display

If you went by the spec sheet alone, this would look like a pretty close matchup–the Evo 4G’s 4.3-inch screen is only marginally larger than the Epic 4G’s 4-inch screen and both phones have a resolution of 800 x 480-pixels. But when you turn these devices on, the Epic 4G’s Super AMOLED blows past the Evo 4G’s VGP-BPS9/S display. Colors were crisp and contrast levels were extremely sharp. The Evo 4G’s screen was also easily outclassed by the Epic 4G when it came to brightness–at maximum levels, images popped from the screen. The extra 0.3 inches on the Evo 4G certainly doesn’t hurt for applications like web browsing, but the difference in visual fidelity can’t be ignored.

Winner: Epic 4G.

The Super AMOLED display on this phone makes jaws drop.

Keyboard

The Epic 4G’s slide-out keyboard is what makes this phone stand out from the rest VGP-BPS9 of the Galaxy S family, and it’s pretty great. The keys are nicely spaced apart and offer good tactile feedback. We just wish typing “@” didn’t require a function key combo. However, the Epic 4G’s touch keyboard disappoints. The combination of an overly large text entry area and odd key placement scrunches together all of the onscreen keys, making it tough to accurately type. Fortunately, the inclusion of Swype software makes it easy to type words with one hand just by tracing your finger from one letter to the next.

The Evo 4G’s keyboard makes the most VGP-BPS9A/B of its large screen. The screen size makes it easy to type with minimal errors, and we like how you can press and hold various keys to enter special characters like numbers. Just be sure to turn off the haptic feedback; it slows down the typing experience.

Winner: Epic 4G

While the Evo 4G has one of the better touch keyboards around, the Epic 4G’s physical QWERTY is the best we’ve used on a good battery slider and is one of the main reasons to get this device compared to other Galaxy S phones. You never have to wonder whether you just typed the right letter.

Superphone Face-Off: HTC Evo 4G vs. Samsung Epic 4G

If you haven’t thought about switching to Sprint, there are two very Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery good reasons staring you right in the face: the HTC Evo 4G and Samsung Epic 4G. As you can tell by their names, both devices can connect to Sprint’s fast 4G network (more than 50 markets and counting). However, while both of these Android phones sport 1-GHz processors and can record HD video, they’re pretty different beasts. The Evo 4G ($199) is a pure slate design with a 4.3-inch display, while the more expensive Epic 4G ($249) has a smaller but more brilliant 4-inch screen with a slide-out keyboard. And those are just some of the differences.

Yes, both of these Android superphones Dell Latitude 131L Battery are Editors’ Choice winners, but only one device can win this battle. Let’s get it on!

Design

The Epic 4G is slightly thicker than the Evo 4G (4.9 x 2.5 x 0.6 inches versus 4.8 x 2.6 x 0.5 inches), but that’s to be expected Dell Vostro 1000 Battery given that the Samsung has a slide-out keyboard. The Epic 4G is taller but narrower. Meanwhile, the Evo 4G is heavier (6 ounces versus 5.5 ounces), and you can feel this difference in your hand and in your pocket.

Still, the Evo 4G feels more like a flagship phone. It’s one solidly constructed slate, with capacitive buttons that work well and are always visible. We especially like the built-in kickstand on the back of the Evo, great for listening to music or watching movies. The glossy black front on the Epic Dell Inspiron 1501 Battery 4G is slick, but the buttons are nearly invisible when the backlight isn’t activated. Nevertheless, the Epic’s smoother contours make it fit especially comfortable when it’s being held.

Winner: Draw

The Evo 4G has a more premium feel, Dell Inspiron E1505 Battery and we love the kickstand and HDMI output, but the Epic 4G’s lighter weight and more rounded design give it equal appeal.

Display

If you went by the spec sheet alone, this would look like a pretty close matchup–the Evo 4G’s 4.3-inch screen is only marginally larger than the Epic 4G’s 4-inch screen and both phones have a resolution of 800 x 480-pixels. But when you turn these devices on, the Epic 4G’s Super AMOLED blows past the Evo 4G’s VGP-BPS9/S display. Colors were crisp and contrast levels were extremely sharp. The Evo 4G’s screen was also easily outclassed by the Epic 4G when it came to brightness–at maximum levels, images popped from the screen. The extra 0.3 inches on the Evo 4G certainly doesn’t hurt for applications like web browsing, but the difference in visual fidelity can’t be ignored.

Winner: Epic 4G.

The Super AMOLED display on this phone makes jaws drop.

Keyboard

The Epic 4G’s slide-out keyboard is what makes this phone stand out from the rest VGP-BPS9 of the Galaxy S family, and it’s pretty great. The keys are nicely spaced apart and offer good tactile feedback. We just wish typing “@” didn’t require a function key combo. However, the Epic 4G’s touch keyboard disappoints. The combination of an overly large text entry area and odd key placement scrunches together all of the onscreen keys, making it tough to accurately type. Fortunately, the inclusion of Swype software makes it easy to type words with one hand just by tracing your finger from one letter to the next.

The Evo 4G’s keyboard makes the most VGP-BPS9A/B of its large screen. The screen size makes it easy to type with minimal errors, and we like how you can press and hold various keys to enter special characters like numbers. Just be sure to turn off the haptic feedback; it slows down the typing experience.

Winner: Epic 4G

While the Evo 4G has one of the better touch keyboards around, the Epic 4G’s physical QWERTY is the best we’ve used on a good battery slider and is one of the main reasons to get this device compared to other Galaxy S phones. You never have to wonder whether you just typed the right letter.

the recall trouble of Toyota

Toyota’s Prius hybrid was Japan’s top-selling car in March for an 11th straight month despite global recall woes of Dell C1295 battery , an industry group said Tuesday.”The recall woes did not appear to dent demand for the Prius. Despite the recall trouble, the automaker cannot keep up with surging demand for the Prius,” said Toshiki Miyake, a spokesman for the association.

Consumers were choosing the Prius with the help of tax breaks and government subsidies for environmentally friendly vehicles, Miyake said.Toyota’s Prius was also the top-selling car in Japan in the fiscal year to March 2010, with sales quadrupling from a year earlier to 277,485 of Dell inspiron 1521 battery , the association said.

The Prius, now in its third generation since its 1997 introduction, is the best-selling gas-electric hybrid in the world, with a total of 1.7 million units sold worldwide of Dell inspiron e1505 battery , according to Toyota. It is so popular in Japan that it has a six-month waiting list.Rival Honda Motor Co.’s fuel-efficient FIT was in second place in March sales in Japan, with 23,076 units sold, the association said.

The FIT also was No. 2 for the fiscal year with sales of 173,154.Toyota has been fighting to regain its once-sterling reputation for quality after recalling more than 8 million vehicles worldwide of Dell GK479 , including more than 6 million in the U.S. alone, due to acceleration problems in multiple models and braking shortcomings in the Prius.

In Washington, the U.S. government accused Toyota of hiding a “dangerous defect on Dell latitude d420 battery ” and proposed a record $16.4 million fine Monday for failing to quickly alert regulators to safety problems.

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Dell XPS M1730 battery review

Dell XPS M1730 battery is a standard Dell XPS sereies battery ( XPS M1210 Battery, XPS M1330 Battery, XPS M1530 Battery) for notebook. This XPS M1730 battery is a black 9cells 85WHr li-ion Dell battery. On XPS M1730 battery has six indicator lights. When you press the button the lights become green to show its capacitance. There are some battery’s detail info on its back as replace code, capacity, using Attentions . Also the interface connect to laptop and bayonet are set on its side.

Excellent Specs :

# High capacity (85WHr) lets your XPS M1730 work longer.

# Quick-charging : fully charged in 3 hours.

Manufacturer Part# : WG317

Dell Part# : 312-0680

Please Notice this : the battery cant replace dell XPS M1530 battery

Tech Specs :

Product Type : laptop Battery

Features : For Dell XPS M1730 Notebook

Battery : 9-Cell Lithium-Ion

Power Provided : 85 WHr

Dell XPS M1730 battery problems:

Thats maybe the dell mainboard and adapter probelm : Just last night I started receiving a message saying, “The AC Power Adapter Type cannot be determined. Your system will operate slower and the battery will not charge. Please connect a SONY VGP-BPS8 230W AC Adapter or Higher for Best Results”.

Customers Rating :

Doesn’t hold much charge, maybe an hour (when it was NEW). Now that it is a year old, it holds ZERO charge. If I unplug my computer, the battery holds no charge and the computer crashes immediately. Poor quality, poor value.

The battery that came with my M1730 is so weak my computer shuts down 10 sec after I unplug it. I did not use the battery much – always plugged in. The price is absolutely ridiculous for something that only lasts a year and provides 1 hour of power.

In the end the xps m1730 battery is a new battery as sony Sony VGP-BPS8 VGP-BPS9 VGP-BPS9/B VGP-BPS13.There maybe some replacement in the market, you can select a cheap replacement for your OEM battery when you long working with battery. As the frequent “long time discharging” can damage your OEM battery.

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Battery life up 30%! Windows 8 is more energy-efficient than Vista

Microsoft program manager Lusidunpa Na Beike (Ruston Panabaker) Tuesday said the system, compared with WindowsVista, in Windows8, the Sony VGP-BPS8 life time will be increased by 10% to 20%. Tuesday, Panabeike have been demonstrated, using two of the same model (the operating system different) laptop playing DVD. Demonstration results showed that running Windows8 notebook battery life than running Vista laptop Apple battery life longer by 30%.

Windows 8 is more energy-efficient than Vista

Overall, when users watch DVD through the laptop when the laptop battery life under Windows8 be increased by 10% to 30%. Panabeike said it was a great performance.

Last week, has been reported that the use of Windows8 operating system, Internet this Toshiba laptop battery life decreased by 1 / 3. Focus on the laptop reported “Laptop” magazine this week that Toshiba, the Internet has been tested, the results of the use of the Internet after Windows8 reduce the time of the battery life of 2.5 hours. In the XP system, the battery life of 9 hours, 24 minutes, while Windows8 only 6 hours 53 minutes.

According to Toms Hardware site testing, the XP system, the Acer AcerAspireOne access to this Sony laptop battery life is 8 hours and 28 minutes, while in Windows 8, under 5 hours, 54 minutes, the same reduction of 2.5 hours.

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why laptop battery suddenly stop discharging

Maybe we all face this situation : Some times we should travel to some place as the business or holiday. You know the 12 hours or more journey time is too wearily. So we like enjoy ourself with our laptop to watch movie or play game. Suddenlly the Dell Latitude D620 Battery stop dischargging in the 70% power state or more. You maybe very confuse about this : maybe some problem with my laptop or my laptop dead. In fact most of them are caused by the temperature or the over-Current.

Most laptop batteries have the protection circuit. When the laptop battery temperature is too high or discharge current is too large, out of laptop battery protection circuit action standards. Thus causing the Dell Latitude D630 Battery power automatically stop discharging and force the issue.

The most common situation is that laptop battery is running at full speed . The Dell Inspiron 710m Battery current is too large to result in automatic protection. For example, from the drive to capture the contents of DVD discs into the mobile hard disk, when a large number of both host and peripheral power consumption, is likely to make current standards of protection beyond the battery. D0 not panic in that case. You only used to disconnect peripherals and wait about 10 minutes, then you can reboot the machine.

There is also a common situation : using the battery in a hot environment and high-load operation, , so that the ambient temperature plus the heat generated by the battery self-discharge Dell xps m1530 battery protection circuit may exceed the preset temperature, which is particularly high frequency P4 machines in high-temperature environment may occur after high-speed operation.

Encountered such a situation should remove the batteries placed in a cooler place (remember not to put refrigerator frozen!), After half an hour should be back to normal. High temperature for the lithium Dell TC030 Dell PC764 battery damage is relatively large, less than a last resort and should be avoided in high-temperature environment and high-load operation.

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Choose suitable software for you laptop

As with a desktop machine, it’s easy to end up paying more than you need for a package because it’s been buffed up with bloated software. You will, however, need an operating system, and the overwhelming majority of laptops use Microsoft Windows in some guise Inspiron 6400 Battery. Linux hasn’t really made inroads into the portable market as yet, and thus Windows XP Home or Professional will more than likely be bundled in.

Some leave it at that, others will include one or more of the following: DVD playback software (useful, but not that expensive to buy), anti-virus package (never to be sniffed at), some form of office package (if it’s Microsoft Office, that accounts for much of the price at hp compaq 6510b battery, while the likes of Ability Office barely dent it) and CD/DVD burning software (the bundled stuff is generally quite limited, but enough to do what the majority of people need it to do).

If a portable machine goes awry, it costs a great deal more to fix than a desktop PC Dell Inspiron 5100 Battery. For that reason it’s worth looking into warranty packages, although don’t instantly snap up the one that your retailer is offering you. Shop around some third party services and see if you can get a better deal.

Hopefully, all of that has given you some useful pointers as to what to look out for. The usual rules should apply when you do finally go shopping though: research your purchase carefully, ask as many questions of your retailer as you need and make sure you pick the machine you want Toshiba PA3535U-1BRS, not the one they want to sell you. Oh, and don’t forget to check out the machines we’ve tested at IT Reviews.

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Dell Inspiron E1405 Battery Review

Dell plans to begin offering the E1405 with a higher Core 2 Duo processor beginning in the last quarter of this year. We anticipate the E1405’s performance will improve as a result of this processor upgrade, but dell inspiron 6400 battery life might also be impacted.

Dell Inspiron e1405 Specs:

• Processor: Intel Yonah Core Duo T2300 (1.66 GHz/2MB L2 Cache)


• OS: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition


• Hard Drive: 80 GB SATA @ 5400RPM (manufactured by Hitachi)


• Screen: 14.1″ WXGA+ UltaSharp Widescreen with TrueLife (1440 x 900)


• Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950


• RAM: 1.0GB DDR2 SDRAM @533 MHz (2 x 512MB)


• Optical Drive: 24x CD-RW/DVD-ROM


• Battery: 6-cell lithium ion Dell XPS M1730 Battery


• Wireless: Dell 1390 Mini Card 802.11 b/g (54 Mbps)


• Weight: 5.3 lbs


• Dimensions: 1.5″ (H) x 13 ” (W) x 9.6″ (D)


• Ports/Slots: 1 IEEE 1394 (FireWire), 4 Universal Serial Bus (USB 2.0), 5-in-1 removable memory card reader, VGA monitor out port, S-video out, RJ-45 Ethernet LAN, RJ-11 modem, ExpressCard 54mm, headphone/speaker jack, microphone connector

Its 85Whr (9-cell) Dell XPS M1530 Battery sticking out from the back, the E1405 would actually be over a pound lighter than the E1505 battery, instead of just 0.8 pounds lighter.

The battery Tech Specs:

Technology : 9-cell lithium ion

Voltage: 11.10V

Capacity: 85Wh

Dimension: 206.70*49.00*23.80mm

Weight: 0.456kg

Condition: Brand New, 1 year warranty!

Works with: Dell XPS M170 Battery, Apple A1185 Battery, Latitude 620 Battery , Dell Latitude 630 Battery

The Dell Inspiron E1405 battery features :

* 85 WHr capacity lets you work seamlessly while on the move

* Provides very safe charging and discharging

* Offers reliable power for dependable performance

* Competible with the battery code as : Dell TC023, Dell Y9943,

Customre Reviews :

this Dell laptop battery is a nightmlare. i bought 2 defective ones in a row and now dell will only refund one of them. the first one didn’t charge at all. after 2 weeks, the second one doesn’t charge past 5% of its capability. Dell will not refund me for the first one because their agents never connected me to the right # after I purchased the second one. Now i am over the 21 days. Dell has problems.

This battery only lasts a few months when I checked the price for a replacement I got shocked. I will try other batteries not from dell and check quality and price, maybe I can get the same performance as the oem but without wasting more money.

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Dell Inspiron E1405 Battery Review

Dell plans to begin offering the E1405 with a higher Core 2 Duo processor beginning in the last quarter of this year. We anticipate the E1405’s performance will improve as a result of this processor upgrade, but dell inspiron 6400 battery life might also be impacted.

Dell Inspiron e1405 Specs:

• Processor: Intel Yonah Core Duo T2300 (1.66 GHz/2MB L2 Cache)


• OS: Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition


• Hard Drive: 80 GB SATA @ 5400RPM (manufactured by Hitachi)


• Screen: 14.1″ WXGA+ UltaSharp Widescreen with TrueLife (1440 x 900)


• Graphics: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950


• RAM: 1.0GB DDR2 SDRAM @533 MHz (2 x 512MB)


• Optical Drive: 24x CD-RW/DVD-ROM


• Battery: 6-cell lithium ion Dell XPS M1730 Battery


• Wireless: Dell 1390 Mini Card 802.11 b/g (54 Mbps)


• Weight: 5.3 lbs


• Dimensions: 1.5″ (H) x 13 ” (W) x 9.6″ (D)


• Ports/Slots: 1 IEEE 1394 (FireWire), 4 Universal Serial Bus (USB 2.0), 5-in-1 removable memory card reader, VGA monitor out port, S-video out, RJ-45 Ethernet LAN, RJ-11 modem, ExpressCard 54mm, headphone/speaker jack, microphone connector

Its 85Whr (9-cell) Dell XPS M1530 Battery sticking out from the back, the E1405 would actually be over a pound lighter than the E1505 battery, instead of just 0.8 pounds lighter.

The battery Tech Specs:

Technology : 9-cell lithium ion

Voltage: 11.10V

Capacity: 85Wh

Dimension: 206.70*49.00*23.80mm

Weight: 0.456kg

Condition: Brand New, 1 year warranty!

Works with: Dell XPS M170 Battery, Apple A1185 Battery, Latitude 620 Battery , Dell Latitude 630 Battery

The Dell Inspiron E1405 battery features :

* 85 WHr capacity lets you work seamlessly while on the move

* Provides very safe charging and discharging

* Offers reliable power for dependable performance

* Competible with the battery code as : Dell TC023, Dell Y9943,

Customre Reviews :

this Dell laptop battery is a nightmlare. i bought 2 defective ones in a row and now dell will only refund one of them. the first one didn’t charge at all. after 2 weeks, the second one doesn’t charge past 5% of its capability. Dell will not refund me for the first one because their agents never connected me to the right # after I purchased the second one. Now i am over the 21 days. Dell has problems.

This battery only lasts a few months when I checked the price for a replacement I got shocked. I will try other batteries not from dell and check quality and price, maybe I can get the same performance as the oem but without wasting more money.

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Saving my laptop battery life methods

We all like quests… right?? Well, mine has to do with getting the most out of my Sony VGP-BPS9 on my aging laptop. Aging that includes the power-providing battery. I already have a head start on this with my laptop specs. It is a Dell Inspiron 700m Battery . It is also based on the Centrino platform, which was Intel’s first major play into laptop powersaving. Included within are an arsenal of powerful components that use minimal power (at the time).

My specific laptop was based off of the Carmel platform. It includes an Intel Pentium M 1.6GHz processor with variable speeds ranging from 600MHz to 1.6GHz, the Intel 2200BG wireless networking card, and the (unfortunately) low-powered 855 Chipset which includes Intel Extreme Graphics 2. Also included is a 12.1″ widescreen LCD Powerful Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery, which I am sure uses less power than some of the larger screens out there.

I already had low power-consumption in mind when I installed Slackware (started with 10.2). I installed cpufreq-utils and cpufreqd which allowed me to adjust my processor speed depending on certain power conditions. I also purchased a larger battery (on this model the Dell Latitude D830 Battery is in the back, so the larger one extends further out the back). The original was a 4-Cell that provides 2200mAh. I replaced that with an 8-cell that provides 4400mAh of power. When the battery was new it provided a whooping 5 hours of battery life. Sadly batteries will dwindle and the power it is capable of putting out will shorten over time.

So to get to the point of my quest, Dell Inspiron 1525 Battery was to get the maximum life out of my laptop. The reason was that I was getting ready to go on leave. I currently am stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, and flight times back to the states are kinda long. So I wanted to be able to use my laptop for as long as possible while I was flying (partially due to the fact that I can’t sleep on planes, even when assisted with sleep medication). So with the help of Google, I was able to come up with the following.

First things first, I found I needed to re-compile my kernel. This will be distro-specific, due to different distros compiling kernels different ways. Mine will all be based off of Slack 12.1 which is the version I was running at the time with my Dell Latitude D630 Battery. The biggest reason for me, was to included tickless-support, which basically only wakes up the processor when there is something for it to do.

Next was to get a program called PowerTOP (PowerTOP needs certain things built into the kernel, the items needed are listed on their site). It is developed by Intel and is used to show what is causing your processor to wake from its low power state. The other benefit it gives is it will tell you some information on how to use less power Dell Latitude D520 Battery, such as disabling Bluetooth, or setting a lower scan rate for your wireless. It provides hotkeys so you can change these directly in the program without exiting. It also provides the actual commands that it uses to change these. This way you can make them into a script (like I did).

Some of the functionality it wants to change may not be beneficial for everyday use of a laptop (like disabling Bluetooth). So if you want some of these to run everytime you run your laptop you could add them to your system startup with Dell Inspiron 1721 Battery, which in Slackware is under /etc/rc.d/rc.local (distros vary in their startup procedures, so yours may be different). For other times (like when on a plane and you don’t want any wireless devices running) you can make a specific script for it that you run when needed.

Another tool worth mentioning is laptop-tools. This is a script that will run in the background and whenever the laptop starts using the battery, it automatically will provide powersavings. There is a detailed article about what it does here.

Now come the common sense items. People should realize these, but lets face it… everyone has brain-farts.

• Dim your laptop screen to the lowest level still viewable. The higher the brightness of your LCD screen, the more power your backlight will consume.


• Don’t use your Dell Inspiron 1420 Battery CD/DVD drive. It uses a lot of power to spin a disc. Their are plenty of tutorials to convert your dvd’s to a file on your hard drive.


• Don’t use external devices. Even an external mouse or usb drive will use additional power.


• Depending on your distro you may want to consider using a different window manager. Some window managers have a lot of programs running in the background that will take up processing power and in turn use more of your battery. While I normally run KDE 4, I use windowmaker when I am trying to save power.


• Disable 3D acceleration in your Dell C1295 Dell KD476. Again, this will use unnecessary processing power. You can do this in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file by commenting out the Load dri and glx modules. Just put a # in front of them.


• Disable any unused services. If you won’t be using your webserver or database software, there is no reason to be running those in the background. You can add any of these to your powersave script.


• Disable any unused hardware. You can do this by removing the modules. If you won’t be using usb, then remove it. Some of the devices you may want to consider disabling are: firewire, pcmcia slot, bluetooth, wireless, card readers, and more this can saved Dell Inspiron E1705 Battery life.


• The more obvious one is, if possible, buy a larger battery. This will be dependent on the laptop, because some laptops do not have any larger batteries available. Worst case, buy a new one to replace your aging battery.

Unfortunately I don’t have an amount of extra Dell Latitude D820 Battery life this gave me, but I did lower my wake-ups from idle per second by more than 400 wake-ups. And this is just when I am using KDE4. With switching to windowmaker I was able to lower the total amount to 40-60 wake-ups per second. Granted, when I am running my video player that number does go up, but the lower the number of wake-ups the less power your processor will consume.

The article via batteryblog

Where is Laptop using heat come from?

We are using the notebook for some time. Weoften found that notebook slowly get hot after using for a while, especially the bottom of laptop. The situation occur frequently in Summer. Where is laptop using heat come from?

When the machine overheating, some harm reasult happend: laptop system halted, restart, and even laptop parts burn (espacilly laptop battery). Which laptop part produce such a large amount of heat? Here I will give us a presentation.

As the desktop CPU’s power consumption and heat is very large. It can not be used in notebook as Dell WW116 , so mobile processors is specifically designed for notebook. Many notebook CPU processor power consumption are over 20W, particularly in the mobile Pentium 4 processor. Though there are a lot of technology tips make notebook average energy consumption low, but the peak is still very high (more than 30W) when using. Many of these energy consumed will come into heat dissipation. Therefore we should always check the clearance of xps m1730 battery CPU fan air vents. Make sure there are no stolen goods block the air vents, that cause the heat can not dissipate. If the notebook CUP silicone hardening, we should replace it in time.

First, the XPS M1530 Battery notebook cooling heat is mainly come from the CPU working heat. But CPU heat is not the all. And the early CPU processor heat is not very large. Just use some simple passive cooling method that can satisfy the cooling needs of the machine. That is the heat sink cooling as we usually known. However, as the continuing escalation of CPU processors, while in the Pentium processor century, the processor’s cooling is the big problem.

Secondly, the graphics card heat is also a large proportion. Early graphics cards heat is not large, but now a lot of high-end machines such as Inspiron E1505 Battery Inspiron E1705 Battery often configure the ATI Mobility Radeon HD4750 or GeForce GT240M such a good graphics card, so the heat also increase a lot.

Finally, there is some other hot parts, such as memory, hard drives, laptop battery, are also a number of laptop heat source.

How to charge your laptop battery properly?

During the the process of notebook using, we need no to deliberately charge the Inspiron 6400 Battery to 100% state or fully discharged laptop battery to automatic shutdown protecting. The correct way is that charge the battery in 20% state and stop charging in 98% . If the machine has the power calibration procedure, when the battery standard-by time significantly reduced. Then calibrate the battery in time to active the protection circuit performance.

For early notebook batteries as Dell XPS M1730 Battery (Ni-MH Ni-MH or Ni-Cd Ni-Cd), really need to fully charge and discharge in order to maintain good battery capacity. But for the lithium battery is not necessary even it may damage the battery.

In fact the lithium batteries has a little memory effect. The lithium VGP-BPL9 battery materials is very sensitive to the conditions as temperature, the use of frequency and so on. The battery will be aging after used for some period time (standby time reduced). The natural wear and tear is an important reason, and inadequate maintenance is another important reason.

A well-designed lithium batteries have a very good protection circuit to prevent excessive charge and discharge.As over-charging and discharging of the Sony VGP-BPL8A battery will be the rapid reduction activity. Under the protection of protection circuit, the user fully charge and discharge the battery several times, in fact, impossible to achieve had “full” level.

Sometimes WINDOWS show that ThinkPad T61 Battery capacity is 20% or more, you can use 30 minutes. But after used 10 minutes or less the machine suddenly automatically shut down. The reason is that the battery has been aging, the battery protection circuit can not monitors the battery real capacity. In the normal battery depletion, the protection circuit original parameters have been unable to properly reflect the actual situation of the battery

So power calibration procedure is to correct the benchmark protection circuit parameters to accurately reflect the actual capacity of the IBM ThinkPad R61 Battery. This correction process will often take two or three complete charge and discharge. As previously mentioned, fully charge and discharge will reduce the battery activity. It is not frequently used, usually once a month.

The article Via laptop battery blog

Microcontroller Control Software Design

The key is to balance the control of the module parameters of the Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery voltage collection and trigger pulse output FET and battery status to determine the control software to achieve a balanced charge and discharge at the same time should also be able to realize the battery overcharge, over discharge instructions to protect the other When the battery of VGP-BPS12 temperature exceeds its operating temperature range can also be a timely manner to protect the output instructions.

Experiment and result analysis

With the two lead-acid VGP-BPS8, VGP-BPS8A batteries do 12V/4Ah comparative experiments, before the experiment, respectively, the battery discharges to the voltage is not balanced, and then use the module to do a balanced two-way balanced charge and discharge experiments, test the initial conditions the same. The experimental results shown in Figure 4,5, can be seen from the diagram in the absence of a balanced case, the charge and discharge of the latter, the battery voltage difference between the more and more, while the two-way balance of modules in the process of charging and discharging effectively narrowed 2 between the VGP-BPS9, VGP-BPS9/B battery voltage, particularly in the charging and discharging the battery too late to avoid the charge and over-discharge, protect the battery pack.

In the future, PHS mobile phone charger can be universal.

“At present, the alliance has not raised objection to the implementation of standards manufacturers, so we are on schedule the implementation of the standard expressed optimism about the prospects.” Yesterday, China’s fixed and wireless terminals stakeholders Secretariat of the VGP-BPS9/S, VGP-BPS9A/B League told this newspaper.

How to prolong digital cameras battery life

At present, digital cameras have been widely used. How to extend Acer battery life, 7 kinds of methods introduced here:

(A) Less flash. Flash power consumption is the largest in the Kodak and Dell KD476 battery Dell Y9943 battery automatic mode and PASM mode, the flash can be turned off (scene mode exception).

(B) Turn off auto-zoom. Camera’s default setting is continuous AF zoom, which is the camera around the scene on a continuous zoom, in the setting menu will be a continuous zoom into a single, the icon for the Dell G761battery Dell G5260 battery AF.

(C) Reduce image editing times in the camera . Applications readers up in the computer editing view pictures, if we did not have the camera to edit view pictures, would be able to save half of the electricity.

(D) a change in image format. According to their Latitude D630 Battery actual needs, the pictures taken will be transferred as far as possible into the low-storage format. This camera can speed up time to write disk, naturally a power-saving.

(E) Viewfinder LCD screen when you minimize the use of multi-use Latitude D830 Battery EVF viewfinder.

(Vi) to reduce the number of zoom. Telephoto lens to narrow the disparity is indeed a lot of power Yo!

(7) in the setting menu to switch off Latitude D820 Battery unnecessary switches.

Jack hopes that help you.

Electric cars

Electric cars can not be a 2020 high-volume mainstream product, according to Boston Consulting Group, recently wrote an article about car laptop battery, and through Dave Guilford Automotive News written by a published study.

The main reason is the hybrid did not become widespread dissemination is due to the huge cost of the Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery. In the hybrid vehicle lithium-ion battery current price is 1,000 yuan to 1,200 yuan per kilowatt-hour. Vehicle manufacturers can not achieve their long-term costs per kilowatt-hour objective of 250 hours.

Today’s prices mean that the present 20 million kilowatt hours of electric car Dell Latitude D620 Battery cost about 20,000 yuan. While the prices may drop to 8,000 by 2020 will not be low. Consumers want to have a three-year cost recovery period to purchase an electric compared to internal combustion engines, Mosquet said.

In 2020, the annual report, 26 percent, in the main vehicles sold in developed markets will have some form of Dell XPS M1730 Battery power. This would translate into about 14 million.

However, the study is expected, the vast majority – about 110,000 – will be the sale of hybrids only about 1.5 million electric vehicles annually. Some on-board rechargeable Dell Inspiron E1505 Battery means to account for another 1.5 million electric vehicles, the report said.

Mosquet said that there may be legitimate reasons, such as development covers the sharp rise in oil prices, the possibility of electric vehicles. As well as the electric part of the annual 1.5 million units can be used for dell inspiron 1520 battery manufacturers and a number of car manufacturers profitable, he said.

But Mosquet said that car manufacturers should be cautious: “We are now saying is be careful.”

The report assumes that the cost of batteries and electric in hybrid electric vehicles purchase price. It does not include the Dell Inspiron E1405 Battery may actually be leased, often to exchange the possibility of this has been a variety of businesses, including a better place to propose.

Acer aspire One battery specs

Aspire One OEM Power supply and Acer Battery

- 30 W adapter with power cord

- 24 W 2200 mAh 3-cell Li-ion battery pack

- 57 W 2600 mAh 6-cell Li-ion battery pack

- 3-hour battery life for SKUS with NAND flash module and 3-cell laptop battery pack

- 7-hour battery life for SKUS with NAND flash module and 6-cell battery pack

Extend Aspire one battery specs :

Chemistry: Li-ion

Volt: 11.1V

Capacity: 4400mAh

Dimension: 203.20 x 29.30 x 20.80 mm

Color: White or black

Just order a new 10-inch aspire one, you will find that its OEM 3 cell battery is too weak ( only can work about 2-3 hours). There are some extend aspire one batteries in the market as 6cells 4400mAh, 6Cells 5800mAh, 9cells 6600mAh. Their work time with wi-fi is 4400mAh 5-6 hours, 5800mAh ( inspiron 1300 battery) 8 hours, 6600mAh 9 hours. You can select one of these to meet your work or fun requirement.

But in my opinion, the 6cell 4400mAh aspire one battery is the best, as it can work about 6 hours that means we have enough time to deal our works or watch a movie. Also it only has 4400mAh 6cells, so its weight is the light as its notebook. You can easily take it to any place. The Sony vgp-bps13 battery is too heavy that it is strang to meet the light aspire one notebook.

In the beginning, the sony battery price is too expensive as its notebook. From engadge t: We fully understand that time is money, but damn. With quite a few folks up in arms over the $50 to $100 price hike on the 6-cell MSI Wind over the standard 3-cell version, we can only imagine the outcries that will come after seeing this. CDW has a product page up that describes an Acer Li-ion 6-cell 5,200mAh battery that’s designed to fit snugly within the $379.99 Acer Aspire One netbook. Let’s see here — a $119.99 battery for a $379.99 computer. Is that the absurdity alarm sounding, or are our ears still ringing from all the weekend revelry? Also The VGP-BPS2 battery is only $120 .

Now the aspire one battery reduced , you can spend $76.53 and £56.17 or less to get it.

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The laptop 6 mainly hardware problem and prevention Methods

Ask the guys who repaired their notebooks around you, the motherboard issues may be the most commen problem of Dell Latitude D410 Battery. The author’s first notebook also dead as the motherboard problem. General board problems reasuly the machine unbootable. Motherboard problems usually cases short-circuit of IC (integrated circuit).

We usually should change the motherboard when it is broken. The motherboard prices accounted for 1/4 of the laptop Dell Latitude D610 Battery price, so the motherboard problem is the most expensive problem. We need to take attention that do not let leak fluid into the motherboard (we often do this). Do not refresh the BIOS if neednot. In addition, the motherboard is the breakdown by high voltage also happened frequently. If in the electricity peak or just to restore the electricity blackouts, during lightning storm, I propose to use Dell Latitude D410 Battery-powered, do not access home electricity.

2: Hard Disk

The laptop hard drive is more unbreakable than PC hard drive, but they are still afraid of falling repeatedly. Take a look at the label that prompt us to do not throw it. Why? The notebook hard disk is smaller than PC, but the principle is the same, and also due to the complex composition of electronic components. Although the manufacturers optimize the Dell Latitude D520 Battery laptop hard drive break quality. Because of its own composition, it is fear of shock. Remind you, in the bumpy transport, do not use notebook. Be careful not to fall to the ground when place your notebook on the table. As the laptop hard drive is cheap, the information inside is priceless.

3: LCD Screen

LCD is a relatively weak and fragile product of Dell Latitude D630 Battery. LCD mainly make of the glass and liquid crystal, tube composition that are fragile parts. The LCD under organic cover protection, but the protection is very limited. Do not place heavy objects on the LCD, or it would fracture the glass layer. Pay attention Do not let the books hit a hard object. When accidentally dropped on the floor, Dell Latitude D830 Battery LCD is also often bear the brunt. The large LCD value is also a quarter of machine, and it is difficult to repair it but buy a new one.

4: Strings parallel interface

These interfaces do not support hot swap. It is easy to burn the string parallel when plug the USB port or other sevice in Dell Latitude D820 Battery power on. Even worse, resulting in short-circuit board scrap. Although changing string, parallel port is a not too expensive, it is troubleful. There may be someone would say: we are now almost not using the strings parallel port, let them go bad. But the notebooks for engineering debugging that can not lack of the two interfaces.

5: Touchpad

In Summer our hands are dirty and wet. Touch VGP-BPS2 Sony VGP-BPS2C pad with your fingers will make the coating above soon disappear, shorten the life of touchpad and keyboar. So we should wash and clean our hands before open the lapop?

6: CD-ROM

The CD-ROM broken are always caused by someone special love of watching DVD movie. We all know that the original Sony VGP-BPS2C Sony VGP-BPS2A notebook CD-ROM are 150 dollars or more. If always watching disc, your CD-ROM drive will die after one year. If you like watching movie, it is better to buy a DVD player. I just use my T40 combo CD-ROM to installing the software, burn backup, not do other things.

Dell Latitude Z600

Executives looking to impose their status on underlings should take a gander at the Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery. This strikingly thin 16-inch notebook of  Inspiron 6400 Battery was tailor-made for the corner office. A soft touch finish, chrome accents, and two cool technologies—induction charging and Dell XPS M1730 Battery—will inspire envy. Plus, you can get some work done in instant-on mode, which uses its own ARM processor, to save battery life. Unfortunately, at $3,806 as configured ($1,799 starting price), this notebook XPS M1730 Battery doesn’t come cheap and its endurance is lacking. Does this luxury business laptop’s strengths outweigh the drawbacks?

Design

Even from afar, you can see that the fujitsu t5010 battery is a stylish machine. The purple-maroon cover has a soft touch finish, and is set off by angular chrome accents that bracket the battery. While it’s just 0.6 inches thin, it also has a very large footprint at 15.6 x 11.6 inches, similar to the hp compaq 6510b battery. In some respects, the rear design makes the Z600 reminiscent of a very expensive portfolio; even the power brick has a glossy black finish.



At 5.0 pounds with the extended battery and 4.6 pounds with the regular battery, the Z600 isn’t as light as an ultraportable, but neither is it uncomfortable to carry around. However, its large footprint makes it difficult to fit in smaller hp 6510b battery bags.



Too bad there’s no latch securing the lid to the deck; holding the notebook of vgp-bps8 upright by the hinge causes the lid to open slightly. The extended battery also wobbled when we held the notebook toward the hinge for sony vgp-bps8. We expect a more thoughtful design from something this expensive.



This same soft touch finish covers the keyboard deck, and is bordered by brushed metal. Above the black island-style keyboard are haptic volume controls that sony vgp-bps9 light up and buzz gently when pressed. To the right of the keyboard is a fingerprint reader, and to the right of the touchpad is a sony vgp-bps9/b Card reader.



Touching the right edge of the bezel activates one of the unique features of the Z600, Dell EdgeTouch. A small rectangle brings up five icons along the right edge: audio controls, vgp-bps9/b card capture software, Dell ControlPoint, Dell FaceAware utility, and Internet Explorer. Pressing the bezel vgp-bps9/s adjacent to an icon launches it. You can also modify what app icons appear. It’s a clever way of sony vgp-bps9/s to quickly access often-used apps and utilities without the need for a touchscreen (though for this price we might expect one).

Heat

Being as thin as it is, there’s not much room on the inside of the vgp-bps10 to dissipate heat. After playing a Hulu video at full screen for 15 minutes, the touchpad measured 86 degrees Fahrenheit, the space between the G and H keys was 96 degrees, and the middle of the bottom VGP-BPS12 was a scorching 116 degrees. We consider anything above 100 degrees to be unacceptable SONY VGP-BPS12.

Keyboard and Touchpad

Typing on the SONY BATTERY was a pleasure; the black glossy keys were well spaced and had excellent response. It was also easy to type in the dark, as the letters and numbers on the keys lit up when we pressed them. Using the Dell ControlPoint utility, you can also control when the backlight comes on, how bright it gets, and for how long. Our only nitpick is that the keys picked up fingerprint smudges.



The touchpad on the Sony is quite large at 3.6 x 2.0 inches, and its matte surface had very low friction. Just be careful when you’re typing; more than once our thumb brushed up against it and moved the cursor to a different place in the document. The mouse buttons below of DEll  battery are also brushed metal, and blend nicely with the border. They, too, were snappy without being stiff.