sunnuntai 23. helmikuuta 2014

Wireless Charging and T100 Updates

Wow, it's been quite a while since my last post. I'll try to get back on track with more frequent posts. Anyway, now that I've been living with the Lumia 925 for a while I've been getting into wireless charging. I've bought the wireless charging cover for my 925 and got charging plates for home, office, and my car. One additional plate is on its way as well. I've liked it so much that I guess the last time I charged with a wire was when the cable was sticking out from Nokia DC-19 portable battery.

My bedroom is the environment where wireless charging really shines. That's because my phone which also doubles as an alarm clock is on a small shelf about an arm's length above my head (but so that I can grab my phone without sitting up). Back when I didn't have wireless charging I had an annoying struggle with trying to get that charging cable to stay up on the shelf after grabbing my phone and disconnecting the cable. Now there's no such problem and I can just lay the phone down on the charging plate (or should I say pillow since I got the Fatboy version of Nokia DT-901 with the use case in mind) and then pick it up in the morning without worrying about cables falling on my face. This is one of the features you don't actually miss beforehand, but once you get used to it you're reluctant to give it up.

What comes to the other part of the title, I just noticed that there was a bunch of updates waiting for my T100. I don't get e-mail notifications about them since despite multiple attempts, I haven't been able to complete my registration on the slow and buggy ASUS website. So if someone from ASUS stumbles into this, could you please try to do something about the registration site? It's obviously broken since multiple attempts on multiple browsers and multiple networks haven't helped a bit. But as the updates included a new BIOS revision as well as SOC driver package, I'm interested in seeing whether the battery drain issue is now gone. I surely hope so.