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OK, today I tried to keep track of the usage: I got about 5 1/2 hours of continuous use out of it with the tablet functionality turned off for the most part. It was on all the time, but I didn't constantly switch pages. It went from solid green / 4 bars (full charge) to red / no bars (low battery) It actually shut itself down normally instead of just hanging like last time.
Considering that for now there is little to no power management, I think that's pretty good for the general snappiness of the reader. I can live with that, even if I have to turn it off for an extended break. Not that this should be an excuse for iRex to drag their feet on some proper power management & suspend mode.
I also want to clarify that 4 bars on the battery meter didn't last for more than a few minutes before it went down to 3 and stayed on the remaining bars (3,2,1,0) for a long time each. No bars still gave me a considerable amount of usage (at least 30-45 min.) before the LED turned red and I got the low battery warning.
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