Looking at this it’s one of those thing that is like “That’s genius!”.  While it’s just a concept These little things would be so handy out on the field. Imagine on vacation your batteries run out on your camera so you just pull them out and tell your kids to have fun.

[via Gizmodo]

Ryan Rea (Volvoshine) is doing a mini interview with one question a day to his source. The first question was:

Ryan Rea what kind of battery life are we looking at?

TK it should be roughly 5X more then the current iPod touch

The current iPod Touch is rated for 36 hour of audio and 6 hours of video. So if this is true you will be seeing 180 hours of audio on the Zune HD and about 30 hours of video. This translates into 7 and a half days of listening audio and 1 and a quater days watching video.

If this turns out true that would be very impressive indeed…

[Source Volvoshine's Twitter]

Today I have had 3 people search for “is it bad to leave your Zune plugged in”. Now I now this may be a topic I get some flack for brining it up, but here it goes.

Today’s modern batteries like the ones found in the Zune and most other media players don’t care if they stay plugged in. Heck, it doesn’t even make a difference whether or not you empty them before a recharge.

With older batteries you had to empty them before recharging so you would get a longer life out of the battery. With today’s technology this is no longer needed. In fact topping off the battery often is actually better. So stop empting your batteries before recharging because it is not needed and your just wasting your time and inconveniencing yourself.

While I say not to worry about running down the battery. You still should do this once every month  or so. This will re-calibrate the battery and give it the battery life it had from the start.