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Originally Posted by HarryT
The main problem with UMPCs is battery life - on most of them it's extremely short; around 3h is not atypical.
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Yes, I'd agree with that. I use an Asus R2Hv quite a lot. Battery life with the standard small battery was 2-2.5 hours. I purchased a LionHead 7000W battery and battery life went to 5 hours (drifting down to 4.5 hours after a year and a half). Unfortunately, this meant weight went up to about 1Kg..
This is a good bookreader (7" screen), but you aren't going to be carrying it in your pocket overmuch. I use MSReader and Mobipocket.. One thing about these is the versatility. I have a full copy of MS-Office on it, along with a lot of company documentation. I sit it on my desk at work and use it as a picture frame - cycling through my photo library. I've used it on holiday trips as a mail reader for my wife's hotmail account (with a USB foldup keyboard). It lives in hibernation and will shutdown and startup in less than a minute.
I read books in portrait mode - using iRotate software.
If it was a 5" screen and 600grams I may not have purchased the Sony 505. (Of course, Asus now have a 5" screen model.....
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Ross