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Old 12-07-2007, 11:10 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by FairEmma View Post
Another 505 battery grump: I got mine at the end of October. I'd never even tried the audio functionality. The maximum number of page turns I ever got out of it on one charge was 503.
It was painfully obvious for the beginning that the "up to 7500 page turns" was not only absurd, but false advertising.

At any rate, my one-year-old PRS-500 does pretty well. At the beginning, I actually kept track of the number of button-presses I made for the life of the battery, and it ran somewhere between 2500 and 3500. Can't complain about that.

I tried it again a while ago after the 505 came out, and got one time with ~4000 and another with 3200, so don't bother counting any more. I usually recharge with the AC adapter after it gets down to one bar on the meter. I'm beginning to wonder if the USB charging on the 505 is not as effective.

Obviously 500 page turns is not acceptable, and if the new one does the same, I'd get pretty firm with Sony about exchanging through them for one that has a decent battery life. Lots of luck.
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