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Old 05-26-2011, 08:34 AM   #55
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Originally Posted by TimW View Post
It depends. The black flash when turning pages is the e-ink refreshing. You can call it a page scrub. If the N2 is only doing a page scrub every six pages, you may see ghosting or afterimages of the previous pages. That would be a disaster. Being able to "one-up" Amazon on battery life at the expense of the page quality would be a Pyrrhic victory. Once the N2 is released, we shall see.
I'd like to think the Engadget folks would have mentioned the ghosting if so, but who knows.
Could the partial refresh thing really be the source of the battery improvement?
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