Captain of Handtops has just completed some testing on the Flipstart and included the Battery Eater battery life test.
The total time to deplete the battery from 99.9% was around 2 and 1/4 hours.
That’s quite good when you look at other UMPC results that are available. For example the Q1 only manages around 1 and 3/4 hours. As a general rule of thumb, multiply the battery eater life by 1.4 to get an average usage value. Using this we see that the Flipstart will run for over 3 hours. I’m trying to find out what the capacity of the large battery is to work out exactly if the device is efficient or just has a very fat battery stuck on its bottom!
For comparison, The Q1 Ultra with its McCaslin platform and new screen is showing something like 3.5 hours under normal use (battery capacity is around 31W/hr) which is pretty good. Engineers at CeBIT mentioned that the CPU component of McCaslin uses 50% of the power of the previous platform (Pentium-M presumably.) I wonder how the Flipstart will look after the April 18th announcement of 4 more McCaslin-based UMPCs.
