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Originally Posted by lunixer
I'm a little upset with the offerings. I never cared about the tablet, but was banking on a new generation of Kindle. Unfortunately the new generation has:
3) Shorter! battery life (yes, the battery life is now advertised at less than the Kindle Keyboard, which seems to be identical to the K3)
And the touch-screen offerings can only turn the page in each direction from one side. They also don't appear to have hardware page-turn buttons.
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I too am disappointed that they seem to have gotten rid of the page-turn buttons. And I'm trying to figure out what the deal is with the battery life. In the detailed description section for the $79 model, they say:
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One Month Battery Life
No battery anxiety - read for up to one month on a single charge with wireless off and a half hour of reading per day.
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For the two touch versions they say this:
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Two Month Battery Life
No battery anxiety - read for up to one month on a single charge with wireless off and a half hour of reading per day.
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They obviously made an error here and I'm wondering if it's supposed to be one month or the two month battery life the keyboard models have.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
They have to allow you to turn it off, if for no other reason that you couldn't take it on an aeroplane otherwise.
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I hope so. I still think it's weird that they said "always connected" and adding to that the discrepancy with the advertised battery life, it really makes me wonder.