Audio Players and WM Device Power Consumption
Smartphone & PocketPC Magazine’s Menneisyys posted an article entitled “Everything you will ever need to know about the power consumption of Pocket PC audio players” that a must read if you are a heavy music/podcast audio listener. I still think the best way to conserve power while playing music is to turn your screen off and carry extra battery or car charger.
(Axim users: don’t forget to post in our forums, you might win that 2200mAH battery)
“In the current article, I elaborate on how all the known MP3-capable Pocket PC multimedia players fare in this respect. You will really need to read this article if you regularly listen to for example MP3 files for more than, say, half an hour between recharges. You can save even hours of battery uptime if you choose your multimedia player with the CPU usage in mind. As you’ll see, current multimedia players have vastly different CPU usage (and, therefore, power consumption), particularly if you enable for example equalization, digital signal processing (DSP) and the like.”
Read the full article HERE!
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