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Originally Posted by Mono
I know that one may have 8 coces, lots of memory, etc. Besides it is more costly it also consumes much more energy. So, my question is. Are you going to pay the price of one fourth to one sixteenth of battery life for 300/600 dpi?
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How is it going to be more costly or consume much more energy?
Obviously you haven't been following the mobile phone industry for the last few years have you.
Every year around the same time, mobile phone manufacturers launches a new model with roughly the same price as the their previous model launch price one year ago. For example the launch price for Samsung galaxy S3 is roughly the same price as S2 launch price.
So I don't know why some of you have this "cost more" mentality, the new Galaxy S3 is going "cost more" relative to the previous model the S2, not because the manufacturer raise the price for the new S3, the price launch price is the same, but only because the previous model S2 depreciated in value because of the release of the newer more powerful model. Your real purchasing power has in fact increased with the release of the newer S3, because you can buy a more powerful phone with the same amount of dollar. Would you buy the a older and weaker model for the same price? So it's not that manufacturer made the S3 more expensive, but supply and demand made the S2 cheaper relative to the S3. Bloody simple economics.
Second, seriously go to some research before making assumption that more powerful device = more power consumption. Did iPhone 5 have less battery life than iPhone 4s, iPhone 4s than iPhone 4, iPhone 4 than iPhone 3s and so on? Or is the S3 less power efficiently than the S2? Buy your assumption, the new S4 should have so little battery life because the screen is so many times more PPI and 8 times many cores than the first galaxy phone. In fact it's the opposite, newer and more power phones have better power efficiency and management, bigger battery capacity and larger and higher resolution screen without significant increase in weight or size.
1/4 or 1/16 of battery life for doubling the ppi? Funniest assumption I heard in a long time.
The simple fact is, M92 should have a successor by now, it's been more than a 1 year, it's should be updated. The only reason why it hasn't is because there is a lack of competition in the market, there is no market pressure to Onyx to make a better model because all of us suckers have no choice but to buy their M92, there is very few substitute at the moment.
If big players like Samsung or Sony enters the large ereader market, Onyx would have no hope with their currently product update speed.