Thread: Questions before I jump to Lbook firmware
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Old 05-05-2010, 03:36 PM   #19
Davimee
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Originally Posted by Dave_S View Post
There is no battery in the SD card, so the power to operate your SD card must come from the PocketPRO battery. There is also internal circuitry that must be activated to read from the SD card that would normally be powered down when reading from the internal memory. That being said, the extra power drain is relatively small with most SD cards, but I just prefer to keep things as efficient as possible.
Got it. I guess I just took it for granted that it using an SD card wouldn't use any extra battery... although I don't know why, because I know it uses extra juice on my computer to power a USB stick, or my mp3 player... I guess I just never thought about it.
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