how do you turhn the unit completely off? Viola----- Original Message ----- From: "John Esak" <john@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:31 AM Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: turning the unit on
The Icon/BP units employ a unique setup. They run on a powerful operating system called Linux which is installed on a 30Gb hard drive. This O/S allows the unit to essentially turn off the hard drive to conserve battery and minimize wear and tear. While the unit is in this sleeping state, however, it is not off. Turning it on, is essentially instantaneous fromthis point. If the unit is docked in its docking station/keyboard, the sameis true, and the docking station offers one more layer of batteryconservation and charging. By pressing a button on the docking station theunit comes alive immediately and is ready to do anything you need to do.Leaving the unit either plugged into the docking station or plugged into its power cable, with either of these devices plugged into the wall mains power,is probably the best scenario since the Icon/BP is always ready for immediate use. If, on the other hand, you physically power the unit off, and there are certainly reasons to do this. For example, you are using either it or thedocking station in battery mode, and you want to conserve as much battery aspossible while you are not actually using the unit. If you have no access to a power receptacle, this would be a good thing to do. When you do turn off the unit like this, then it takes about a minute or so to load the operating system and initialize things, spin the hard disk up, etc. I havenever timed it, but it is not an unreasonable length of time by any stretch. It takes way longer to turn on any computer, and just about as long for some cell phones and PDA's that don't even use a huge hard disk like the Icon/BP.So, whatever device is touting a fast turn on, can not use that as a plus against the Levelstar/APH units. They come alive ready for use as fast as you can press the buttons. Just be aware of the two states I mentioned above, the sleeping-ready-for-use-immediately state, and the I'm-completely-shut-off-for-an-extended-period-of-time state. If it helpsyou in a purchase decision, I have only turned my Icon off completely maybetwice since I got it over a year ago. It is always either sleeping onbattery and plugged in to the wall, or sleeping on battery plugged into thedocking station which is plugged into the wall. When I go on trips, I justleave it sleeping on battery until I want to do something, and it certainlylasts full days in this type of usage. T O use the device straight in an intensive hard disk usage mode, and maybe even with the wireless turned on and doing stuff, it still works just fine for hours, maybe 3 without complaint or loss of service. ... longer than that I haven't tried. I like to keep my battery fully charged. As an example, I played music for an entire train trip to New York City a few weeks ago, about 3 hours and 15 minutes. When I got to NYC, I plugged the unit into the wall for about two hours... and played music just about all the way home as well. I think I turned it off about two hours into the return trip. For all it does, this unit is simply great on power, and battery conservation. John Esak -----Original Message----- From: icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:icon-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Fiorello Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 12:27 PM To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [icon-discuss] turning the unit on Hi; When initially turning the unit on, does it run immediately or does thesoftware have to run first? If so, how long must you wait for the softwareto run so that you can start using the unit? The voice sense folks made a point of emphasizing that their unit runs immediately when you turn it on which leads me to suspect that the braille plus may not. There is still a rather large unexplained difference in price. 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