I just stumbled across this interesting statistic while I was writing in the forums about the Q1 Ultra. Its all about how much weight you have to carry to surf the ‘net. The Q1 Ultra weighs 680grams and returns 3 hours of hard web browsing. That’s 190 grams per web hour. Read on to see what happens when you apply the same calculation to other devices with standard batteries.
For the Engineers:
- Nokia N800: 50 gm/web-hour.
- Nokia N810: 55gm/web-hour.
- Everun: 133 gm/web-hour. (90 gm/web-hour with the extended battery)
- Q1 Ultra: 180 gm/web-hour. (135 gm/web hour with the extended battery)
- OQO: 200gm/web hour. (110 gm/web hour with extended battery – ESTIMATED)
- Kohjinsha SH6: 480 gm/web-hour. (270 gm/web hour with the extended battery)
- Samsung R40 laptop: 1000 gm/web-hour.
- 2 year old Acer Aspire 1520 laptop: 2500 gm/web-hour.
For the marketing people:
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There’s a huge, huge difference across even just the UMPCs. The N800/N810 is the best in this test by a long long way. You’ve got a keyboard on the N810 and if you carry the (extremely good value) 45g of spare battery with you you’re at 32 gm/web-hour. That’s over 10-times better than a Kohjinsha SH6. Wow! Mind you, if you surf 1 page per minute for 8 hours you lose over 1 hour extra waiting for pages to load on the N800 compared to an x86 architecture. But that’s another story! Anyone care to tell me what the figure is for an iPhone? Or even better, an iPod Touch.
Oh yes, one more thing before I crack open a Bitburger (oops! too late.) I was going to keep quiet about it until I had a bit more time but JKK let the cat out of the bag. I have just two words to say at this point: Fantastic Engineering. (And i’m not talking about my moon-walking legs although I’m pretty happy that I can sill pull a slick move out of the bag when the girls want it. Ah there’s life in the old dog yet )
Have a great weekend everyone. Cheers!
