Hmm last time I tried charging a Galaxy Tab from a USB charger it kept draining...I ended up having to find the wall unit to charge it.
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The new iPad battery is huge (42.5 Whr vs 25 Whr)
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Hmm last time I tried charging a Galaxy Tab from a USB charger it kept draining...I ended up having to find the wall unit to charge it.
You didn't have the adapter needed. It won't charge without it. This was the one I got: http://www.ebay.com/itm/PC-can-char...866211?pt=PDA_Accessories&hash=item20c2208b63
Edit: Actually that wasn't the one I got. The one I got was just an adapter that went between the regular cable and the PC. Same thing but it just didn't have the actual TAB connector on it. Basically all it does is short the 2 middle pins on the USB side so the TAB "thinks" it's plugged into the wall charger.
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If the battery capacity almost doubled, why is the Wifi-only "New iPad" rated at just 10hrs - exactly the same as the iPad 2? I can only assume that the primary power hog is not LTE as most speculated (it only exacts a 1hr battery life penalty vs the wifi-only version) but rather the new high resolution display (after all the SoC is only marginally changed).
Not double, 4 times the pixels, combined with a quad-core GPU. Plus 40% more color saturation and a newer more powerful back-light for the screen.
Heck, my PC's GPU has two individual power cables running to it, on top of the power it's drawing from the board itself.
he's talking LED's lol. Not pixels. a retina screen requires a second LED bar. so double the leds are in the screen.
why isn't it BETTER
With so much extra battery capacity, I can understand it being necessary to support LTE, but why isn't the WIFI battery life MUCH higher than the ipad 2?
Does the retina display require THAT much more battery power to run, to display that much more information on screen? It almost seems like a bad trade off. Technically, we could have this ipad battery with an ipad 2 form factor and screen and have the ipad 2 run 15-18 hours on wifi?
With so much extra battery capacity, I can understand it being necessary to support LTE, but why isn't the WIFI battery life MUCH higher than the ipad 2?
Does the retina display require THAT much more battery power to run, to display that much more information on screen? It almost seems like a bad trade off. Technically, we could have this ipad battery with an ipad 2 form factor and screen and have the ipad 2 run 15-18 hours on wifi?
It's not a bad trade-off. I use my iPad every day and most often it can go 2 days without me charging, sometimes even 3 and that's with WiFi, music and high brightness on.
Even when used heavily I've hardly ever managed to drain the iPad in one day.
Agreed. More battery life is always better, but 10 hours seems to be more than enough for most.
It IS surprising however that the retina power sucks as much juice as it does.
It really isn't. Its like ordering a 17 inch laptop. The entry level ones are rather light and have a small battery but the ones with a discrete GPU have larger batteries and a more powerful AC adapter. Graphics muscles are energy greedy.
I would rather the new battery was put in an iPad 2 for near double battery life!
I would also like an iPod the size of the original iPod (2003) with a battery life that lasts a month of daily use.
I think it is a bit of a shame that as tech advances, thinner and faster always wins over MASSIVE battery life. . . . .
Between my, Laptop, iPad, iPhone, Camera, GPS etc. I am always charging something!
I would also like an iPod the size of the original iPod (2003) with a battery life that lasts a month of daily use.
I think it is a bit of a shame that as tech advances, thinner and faster always wins over MASSIVE battery life. . . . .
Between my, Laptop, iPad, iPhone, Camera, GPS etc. I am always charging something!
http://appadvice.com/appnn/2012/03/new-ipad-battery-takes-twice-as-long-to-charge-may-also-run-warm
Confirmed. It will take almost twice as long to charge and runs a little on the warm side when on LTE.
Confirmed. It will take almost twice as long to charge and runs a little on the warm side when on LTE.
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Don't know, but I will run some real tests tomorrow unlike these so-called reviewers that get free iPads and paid big bucks to do so.
I have the new iPad as of this morning, and it seems to both drain slower than my iPad 2, but also charge much slower than my iPad 2. It will be interesting to see how it plays out over the next week in terms of speed of battery drain as well as slower battery charging.
For This of You Talking About Charging...
this is what I use:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H1663ZM/A
No more wall-warts (except when traveling), a dual dock that handles iPhone and iPad in one compact device with stereo, remote and dual alarms.
I don't work for Apple, just like the device. Dual alarm clock radios that will charge devices are rare.
this is what I use:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H1663ZM/A
No more wall-warts (except when traveling), a dual dock that handles iPhone and iPad in one compact device with stereo, remote and dual alarms.
I don't work for Apple, just like the device. Dual alarm clock radios that will charge devices are rare.
apparently
apparently, it requires TWICE as many ? LEDS's to display, so it sort of makes sense. Twice as many, twice as much battery required - with something in there for optimization.
apparently, it requires TWICE as many ? LEDS's to display, so it sort of makes sense. Twice as many, twice as much battery required - with something in there for optimization.