My 6000 bricked, temporarily

[Prowler]

Hi, I\'m brand new to the forums, trying to decide on the 6000 or the 860, but wanted to comment on this one...

The real problem is the fact that the device doesn\'t sleep when the network is connected.  If you\'re going to dig into the kernal for anything... one should look into fixing that bug.

I don\'t know that I\'d consider this a problem.  It\'s a common feature on all handhelds that I\'ve seen.  If you have an active network adapter one would assume that you wouldn\'t want it to sleep for some reason (i.e., you may have some file transfer going on or waiting for that important email, etc.)  It is assumed that if you are done with the network feature, especially if you\'re on battery power, you\'d turn off that power hungry adapter to conserve battery.

I\'d certainly hate to be in the middle of transferring Paris\' latest video and have the transfer aborted because I hadn\'t touched anything on the device in the last 10 minutes.    

Just my couple cents-worth.

[LilMikey]

IIRC from my dpreview camera surfing days people were talking about Li-Ion batterys becoming completely useless if they are ever 100% drained... as in the hold no usable charge.  It\'s like the achillies heel in an otherwise superior battery technology.  The shutoff sounds like a safegaurd to prevent the battery from being used as even charge detection = usage.

Although, I may just be talking out my rear as I haven\'t been to those forums in a while and I\'m too lazy to do so now