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		pepijndevos on April 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PiPhone – A Raspberry-Pi-based Smartphone As someone who has built an MP3 player with the RPi, I can tell you that the RPi is NOT made to run of a battery. http://pepijndevos.nl/2013/11/21/raspberry-pi-mp3-player.htm... The 2200Mah battery will only last a couple of hours.

xnbya on April 25, 2014 [–]

The network / usb chip takes quite a bit of power relatively, so the model A could last a bit longer on the 2200ah battery

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