While browsing the WindowsMobile blog archive, I found two articles describing what component or part of your PDA or smartphone (i.e. touchscreen, backlight, CPU, LED etc.) drains your battery most. Both articles are available here and here. The latter one also describes the difference in power management of smartphones and PDA’s.

The PDA version release of Google Maps a couple of days ago made a really big noise on various PDA dedicated sites. Msmobiles even gave their article a title “The best news for Windows Mobile in year 2007 : Google Maps for Windows Mobile released !!!”. Well, I do not know, I probably would not be so optimistic … But anyway, I also wanted to try this new software from Google and here are some early comments:

• a bug for a start – despite the fact that I chose to install GoogleMaps to Storage Card on my Artemis, the application file (593 KB) was copied to Program Files/GoogleMaps
• the maps show quite fast in different views
• map details seems to be identical with the PC version (obviously …)
• Google Maps needs internet connection to work – i.e. off-line browsing of downloaded maps is not possible
• I could not find the place where maps are stored (most probably it is Application Data/GoogleMaps); I also did not find where to change this location

To be honest, GoogleMaps are not going to stay long in my PDA as I do not really find any use for such software. But anyway, try it yourself …