Just a quick question for you guys. Has anyone else experienced severe battery drain while using a microdrive to listen to MP3's on the Axim. I have a 340 MB Microdrive (the DMDM-1340 version) and was listening to MP3's on the way to work this morning while surfing some web pages I downloaded from avantgo on Pocket IE. The brightness level on the screen was two notches from the highest level, which is how I normally keep it. Now for most functions I think the battery life of the Axim is great, but this morning after just an hour of continuous MP3 playing off the 340 MD I was at 54% of battery strength. That’s down from the 99% it was at when I first turned it on this morning. Has anyone else had this experience with the microdrive?
I have read in other forums and various threads similar accounts, especially with the 340 MB model as it apparently drains more battery life than the 1 gig. But what alarms me is under on of the Casio threads a poster reported that a Casio rep informed him against using Microdrives both due to its battery drain and its ability to harm internal memory. Is this the case with the Axim as well? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
