Sometimes an application just cuts to the heart of life in the real world and proves a perfect match. aSleep Kids Edition is such a program – it’s designed for one scenario and one only, but it fulfills its role perfectly, getting your baby or toddler off to sleep reliably and with you in full control, with music, light and sensible power management.
The iPhone is, as we know, without match in the web browsing world. Safari on that big 4″ screen is very intuitive and the fact that Flash objects are ignored (for better or for worse) means that pages load much faster than on S60 Web, for example.
However.
There’s one scenario in which the iPhone (and iPod Touch) fall short. Bedtime. Read the full story
I woke up this morning to a dead device. Hmm…. I pressed the ‘Sleep’ button, to see the Apple logo and a boot up sequence, followed by a quick battery warning pop-up message. And then, a few minutes later it was off again. The strange thing is that I had charged it fully yesterday evening. And this isn’t the first time this has happened in six months of ownership.
Low battery
Looking round the forums online, it seems that is phenomenon has been seen by others. No definitive explanation has been given, but with 15 years of mobile computing in my blood I’m going to offer a few thoughts anyway…
