Only 5 hours? That's utter B$!!!!! I live in Japan and I own one. Last night I played Everybody's Golf solidly from 10pm to 5am this morning. It was only when I checked the time that I realised I had been playing unplugged during this entire period............and that I needed to be in work at 8am!! When I plugged into the wall the battery still had 50%......so plenty of legs left. IGN really do post some utter crap and this is a classic example............
I have been reading various blogs about short battery life in the PSP. Its only day two but so far I have had no problems with short battery life at all. I think the reason for this is that when I bought mine on Sunday I left the battery charging for about 14 hours without using the unit.
I think a lot of those guys, in their mad urge to be 'the first', didn't charge their battery for long enough initially and are now reaping a somewhat bitter harvest. Thankfully for all the losers who did this Sony sell replacement batteries. All I can say is 'ha ha Mr Clever' now stop whinging, buy a new battery and learn some patience batty boy! Nooch!
Essentially all these drones are designed to do is part the detonator from the payload of the device (or die in the attempt). The payload usually being several pounds of rusty 'shipyard confetti'.
If the detonator is still servicable (i.e. it wasn't built by a complete monkey and has managed to survive the elements until something came along to set it off), then this usually results in our brave bomb disposal robot going to silicon heaven in a loud bang and a hail of rusty nuts and bolts.
Not bad for a 1000 bucks a pop or whatever. As long as it can stand up to the elements and being bashed about.
As was mentioned previously though I don't really see the American government going for it....not without 2 years of pointless testing and backhanders.....errr corporate donations. However, I do see private contractors buying them for their own use. Some of the big commercial hauliers have a greater range of equiptment and (disposable income) than any government army out there.
Good luck with it dude.
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Only 5 hours? That's utter B$!!!!! I live in Japan and I own one. Last night I played Everybody's Golf solidly from 10pm to 5am this morning. It was only when I checked the time that I realised I had been playing unplugged during this entire period ............and that I needed to be in work at 8am!! When I plugged into the wall the battery still had 50%......so plenty of legs left. IGN really do post some utter crap and this is a classic example............
I have been reading various blogs about short battery life in the PSP. Its only day two but so far I have had no problems with short battery life at all. I think the reason for this is that when I bought mine on Sunday I left the battery charging for about 14 hours without using the unit.
I think a lot of those guys, in their mad urge to be 'the first', didn't charge their battery for long enough initially and are now reaping a somewhat bitter harvest. Thankfully for all the losers who did this Sony sell replacement batteries. All I can say is 'ha ha Mr Clever' now stop whinging, buy a new battery and learn some patience batty boy! Nooch!
Essentially all these drones are designed to do is part the detonator from the payload of the device (or die in the attempt). The payload usually being several pounds of rusty 'shipyard confetti'. If the detonator is still servicable (i.e. it wasn't built by a complete monkey and has managed to survive the elements until something came along to set it off), then this usually results in our brave bomb disposal robot going to silicon heaven in a loud bang and a hail of rusty nuts and bolts. Not bad for a 1000 bucks a pop or whatever. As long as it can stand up to the elements and being bashed about. As was mentioned previously though I don't really see the American government going for it....not without 2 years of pointless testing and backhanders.....errr corporate donations. However, I do see private contractors buying them for their own use. Some of the big commercial hauliers have a greater range of equiptment and (disposable income) than any government army out there. Good luck with it dude.