Thank you, CJP, for the detailed benchmark.
Irex should PAY early adopters for all the testing & frustration.
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Originally Posted by cjp
How is everyone else's battery life holding up?
CJP
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Based on other posts, I suspect that the reader works about 4 hours
with regular page turns.
This is NOT acceptable, given that the screen does not use power once
a page is shown.
Take the smartphone/PDA as an example, we turn it on, draw a page,
suspend it. If it takes a while to finish this page, the device
remains in power-saving suspend state. My smartphone can work in
standby mode for 7 days (with GSM on).
I don't know why it is so difficult for them to implement this "suspend"
feature in the initial product release. As a very basic example, they can
support a "reading profile" which just does "on-display-suspend".
Hanlin v9, for example, weighing just 320g (with battery), has a much
much longer battery life.
Another problem is the boot time. EEE PC 901, with a modified boot loader
from Intel engineers, can boot the Linux system in 5 seconds. Irex has
a less powerful CPU, so, how about 15 seconds?
I still believe in Irex with their wonderful hardware. It is the software
that causes so much trouble.
With the coming of Plastic Logic Reader, the only idea I have for Irex is
to ask their system engineers to work harder and get some experts.
If they can't, release their source code, so that someone else can
help.