Comments on: Where’s my spare UMPC battery?

By: nomo

nomo — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:43:38 +0000

Two words: Mike Cane

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:24:44 +0000

Well at least I got my 2 GB RAM module via Fed Ex. They just swung by with an early morning delivery. Looks like I’ll be headed to the local Post Office later today. :(

Andreas, yes I plan to install Vista on the Q1UP although it won’t be an upgrade. I’ll do a fresh install. Once I’ve got the system configured to my liking, I’ll put SP1 on as well since my prior experience with it was positive.

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:10:09 +0000

Sorry Kevin, I was wondering why the battery didn't fit the Redfly. I'll have to send it to you.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:03:08 +0000

If it makes you feel any better, I have a 6-cell-battery coming as well and I’m waiting impatiently, too.

BTW, will you put Vista with SP1 on your Q1UP?

By: khak

khak — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:49:40 +0000

I had the same at Amazon ! twice ! What's going on ?

By: rw- --- ---

rw- --- --- — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:01:29 +0000

I hope you receive your 6-cell battery very soon. This is by far the best investment I've done in a long time, my Q1P is useless with the standard battery,I was almost sending it to ebay...

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:59:12 +0000

Ordered Hot Fuzz from Amazon, it was delivered to the office of my apartment complex as usual and placed on the rack with all the other packages. Someone else took it. So it was officially delivered according to everyone but me.

By: ChangBM

ChangBM — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 22:14:22 +0000

Haha, it seems that everyone has had some sort of battery crisis at one time or another.

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:43:03 +0000

Here is some very interesting info regarding Battery use between Visa and XP. http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/03/22/lenovo-vista-battery-life-shorter-and-uses-more-power-than-windows-xp/

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:25:09 +0000

Summer of 1997, that is. ;)

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:23:20 +0000

“1 week later the box returned and the toshiba was fixed. I plugged it into the wall to check. There was only one thing missing… the battery.”

Wow, that must have been a major missing battery epidemic a few years ago. I was connecting Melissa’s Mom’s ANCIENT laptop to a new WiFi network (had an extra router and PC card), and I asked her if she was planning to move the laptop around the house (for router placement). And she said when she sent the laptop in for service a few years ago, it came back without a battery – but she didn’t notice it for months (and never got it replaced).

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As far as shipping horror stories – summer of 2007 I shipped ALL my possessions for a cross country move. And then UPS went on strike for like 2 weeks plus add another week for transit. THAT sucked. I still avoid UPS when I can.

By: Benjamin Ries

Benjamin Ries — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:02:43 +0000

Wow Kevin, hope you can get to the bottom of this!

You know, this whole mystery would be easy to solve if companies like FedEx would make better use of the data they’re already collecting and detail it on the tracking page. I’ve seen some companies that not only report the exact address of the delivery, but show a JPEG of the signature of whomever signed for the package.

That said, I’ve got to give kudos to USPS, Canadian customs and Canada Post for making quick work of my most recent eBay purchase of last week: a T-Mobile Shadow smartphone… shipped from Portland on Thursday, processed in Seattle on Good Friday, and cleared customs in 30 minutes at Toronto this Easter Monday morning. On track for delivery tomorrow. I don’t ever remember a gadget coming that quick!

By: HG

HG — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:45:16 +0000

Just about 3 weeks ago I ordered some screen protectors for my Fujitsu U810 and also was going to be shipped by USPS and showed that they where delievered. The problem was it wasn't in my mailbox.(So I thought) then next day I got the mail and I got all the mail out and just happen to touch up and low and behold the screen protector package some how got caught up in the top of the mailbox. I couldn't believe how it got stuck. I know your battery can't do this but thought I share what happen.

By: HG

HG — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:45:02 +0000

By: ChangBM

ChangBM — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:28:19 +0000

Just one. About 5-6 years ago I needed to send in a toshiba e740 pocket pc for repair, so toshiba sent me a empty box to put the device in so they could fix it. Now at the time I didn’t know you didn’t need to send in a battery for them, but I did. 1 week later the box returned and the toshiba was fixed. I plugged it into the wall to check. There was only one thing missing… the battery. For some reason they forgot to put it in the return box and for 4 days I had a pocketpc that needed to be tethered to power to work. Long story short, make sure to detail what you gave them before the box is sent out or the box you get back maybe 1/2 empty.

I know this isn’t the shipping companies fault but still… a PDA without a battery isnt a PDA.