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Old 07-06-2011, 05:35 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Fallingwater View Post
But this got me wondering. E-ink displays eat power only when they change their content, with each changed pixel contributing to the power draw... disabling full-blanking should return quite a dramatical increase in battery life.
The main thing you're forgetting is that an E-ink display only uses power to change the content on the screen, but an E-ink device is a lot more than just the display. You may save a little bit of power from what the display draws, but the rest of the electronics are going to be unaffected (CPU... etc).

I think you'll find that the battery life increase, while not zero, will be a lot smaller than you are thinking. Possibly not even noticeable.
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