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Old 01-19-2014, 05:09 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Now, now…. I did qualify that! I would expect an actual device to have more like a two to four week battery life, like current eInk devices. The power for the computing part wasn't included in those calculations.
Generally device makers trade off battery life with battery size to get cheaper and lighter devices so if the device can do 100 hours with a given battery, they'll cut back to 40 hours instead.

For a reading device matching eink battery life of 30-40 reading hours is suficient; getting color gamut and saturation well above Triton levels is the key for these displays. 5 bit color might be good enough for textbooks but they really need 12-16bit color.
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