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pagansoul · 12-21-2011, 09:08 AM

My beginning serial is D01E A0A0, current storage 1.59GB of 6.54GB available, version 6.2. I tend to read for 3 hours at a time and the battery only goes down at the most 65% so I figure I get more than 7 hours of active reading if I just let it go to the end but I never let that happen.

I also think you just got a lemon the first time. I believe the numbers are batch references and not hardware updates. I expect only software adjustments unless a glaring problem comes up. It'll be a year before there are hardware changes, if that. Amazon kept it simple to bring the $200 price point and sometimes you just get a bad part.

12-21-2011, 09:08 AM	#47
pagansoul Fanatic Posts: 509 Karma: 1098204 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Earth Device: iPhone5, iPad Gen3, Kobo, Kindle Fire, Kobo Vox. Samsung Galaxy Tab 7	My beginning serial is D01E A0A0, current storage 1.59GB of 6.54GB available, version 6.2. I tend to read for 3 hours at a time and the battery only goes down at the most 65% so I figure I get more than 7 hours of active reading if I just let it go to the end but I never let that happen. I also think you just got a lemon the first time. I believe the numbers are batch references and not hardware updates. I expect only software adjustments unless a glaring problem comes up. It'll be a year before there are hardware changes, if that. Amazon kept it simple to bring the $200 price point and sometimes you just get a bad part. Last edited by pagansoul; 12-21-2011 at 09:15 AM.