DS: Burn Baby Burn
Read a Notice somewhere regarding cheap device chargers sold on ebay. Most of them for mp3 players your portable media devices, consoles and handhelds, even your mobile phone. Usually these products come from China with fake CE safety marks and haven’t passed through actual quality control. If you live in the UK and you happen to have a charger for your Nintendo DS with the item number DE62347066, stop using it immediately. You can also visit Nintendo’s website and look for their notice regarding these chargers. Other devices may also be affected and most mobile phones too.
You May Have Started This
They may cause you to lose your device warranty or burn your whole house. They have plugs that don’t fit nicely to your outlet and quickly heats up and eventually burn out or worst explode. This item number is the known one, but other types may have got in too. If you bought one which is almost half the price of the original, then that would be a sign you have the cheapo product. This is where “You Get What You Pay For” quote applies.
iPhone 3G Battery Tips
The New iPhone 3G
Just read in Yahoo Tech News some tips in making the iPhone less of a battery power hog. I decided to try it out on a test unit I luckily had with me today. My Conditions is that I turn back everything to default before trying the next tip and never actually using it after full charge.
Turn off push e-mail
(Tip Rank: 10 out of 10)
Push e-mail is one of the new features of the latest iPhone firmware and one of the worst battery consuming application as well. Turning it off really does save you power on the iPhone, not to mention it’s becoming one of the best Tips on iPhone 3G Care. Switch from push to “fetch” e-mail on your settings and choose 30minutes fetching. Try it your self and thank Yahoo for your new lease on battery life…
Dim the screen (Tip Rank: 6 out of 10)
Yeah, without testing I can surely attest to this, because all device which has a self-powered screen ot any screen with illumination or back light consumes power, so it will save you power if you dim them, you can even do this on your notebook computers and it will save you some juice too. Look under Settings then Brightness and set it to approximately half and Read more
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