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cjp · 10-14-2008, 09:44 AM

This was posted on iRex's forum this morning from Matthijs, an iRex employee:

"This is definitely not all the DR1000S is capable of. Battery life is now limited by unfinished power management in software. That's all I can say for now, I guess we have to wait for Karel or someone else from marketing to give a more official response..."

Hmmmm. "unfinished power management in software." This seems to point to that nothing is probably inherently wrong with my DR1000S, (that's the good part) , but the bad is that we ALL probably have horrible battery life - which is essential to work with documents. Anything less than 8-10 hours without a recharge is difficult at best for most of us who read and work with PDFs.

And let's not forget, iRex touted this Reader to operate much longer than a mere 8 or 10 hours - much less the reality of 3-6 hours.

10-14-2008, 09:44 AM	#54
cjp Zealot Posts: 106 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Saint Louis, Missouri USA Device: HP Slate 500, Sony PRS-505, Kindle 3G+Wi-Fi, Droid	iRex posted a response - sort of. This was posted on iRex's forum this morning from Matthijs, an iRex employee: "This is definitely not all the DR1000S is capable of. Battery life is now limited by unfinished power management in software. That's all I can say for now, I guess we have to wait for Karel or someone else from marketing to give a more official response..." Hmmmm. "unfinished power management in software." This seems to point to that nothing is probably inherently wrong with my DR1000S, (that's the good part) , but the bad is that we ALL probably have horrible battery life - which is essential to work with documents. Anything less than 8-10 hours without a recharge is difficult at best for most of us who read and work with PDFs. And let's not forget, iRex touted this Reader to operate much longer than a mere 8 or 10 hours - much less the reality of 3-6 hours. Last edited by cjp; 10-14-2008 at 10:13 AM.