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Parcels are changing letter

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DB1100
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Re: Parcels are changing letter

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toomuchcoke wrote:
DB1100 wrote:I'm not holding my breath for these new PDA's I think it will be age's before we,at the sharp end get them also this constant short charging wrecks the batteries
Well I would hope, like every consumer smartphone on the marketplace, the new PDAs would have a lithium-ion battery and not nickel-cadmium! i.e. no "memory effect" so short charging would have no effect on the battery life. Yes, lithium-ion have a limited number of charge cycles but that's not affected by short charging - discharging a lithium ion battery from 100% to 90%, charging it back up up to 100% and repeating 10x would have the same effect on battery life as discharging from 100% to 0% and charging back up to 100%.
The lithium-ion battery on my superdoper Samsung galaxy doesn't last anything like as long as when I first got it,down to about half a day now,whereas before it lasted a whole day with some spare and it's only 2 years old.
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Dorset Plodder
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Re: Parcels are changing letter

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Will the new PDAs be "Postie Proof"? Will I be able to reverse over one and still have it work (I've done that to one of the current PDAs :Very Happy ) I expect not! :cuppa
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5plusbonusball
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Re: Parcels are changing letter

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The best thing that can happen is we keep our own pda and no-one else uses it, cuts down on the bacteria etc. :Sick
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Acca Dacca
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Re: Parcels are changing letter

Post by Acca Dacca »

How many things have they added onto us in recent years that ''only takes a minute''?

We literally have to keep going non stop to get everything done and even then it can be a struggle.
If you tolerate this, then your paid break will be next
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Dorset Plodder
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Re: Parcels are changing letter

Post by Dorset Plodder »

5plusbonusball wrote:The best thing that can happen is we keep our own pda and no-one else uses it, cuts down on the bacteria etc. :Sick
What are you doing with your PDA 5plus......... Licking it? :shock:
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DGP1
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Re: Parcels are changing letter

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If I see another york of packets I swear I'm going to go postal, I'd rather deliver a bag of letters than drive around for 2 hours trying to get rid of packets. :evil/mad
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CharlesSpooner
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Joined: 20 Jul 2011, 15:22
Gender: Male

Re: Parcels are changing letter

Post by CharlesSpooner »

5plusbonusball wrote:The best thing that can happen is we keep our own pda and no-one else uses it, cuts down on the bacteria etc. :Sick
And all those letters and parcels :shock: Covered in other people's bacteria :Sick The door handles! The steering wheels! The keys and log books :pray

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