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Originally Posted by ghostwheel
My motorola A1200 (ming) ran linux, had a touchscreen, GSM, and ran for several days on one charge, on a single battery.
The sony (and the cybook) manage to run linux, e-ink, and one battery load will last for several weeks.
I see no reason that the iREX iliad/1000S should not be able to do he same! Does the wacom pen use so much more battery than GSM for a cellphone?
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I don't understand how any eReader could "run for weeks" on a single charge??? The last I remember for Cybook sitting idle used to be 5 days and now is less with the latest firmware. Don't know about Sony.
Certainly some devices that spend most of the time in suspend/hibernate mode can go for a long time, but then they are not actually doing anything. Once they bring hibernate mode to DR I am sure it will keep working for weeks or months in hibernate mode.
In the past some PDAs could work on a couple of AAs or AAAs for a long time. They built custom chips and custom software that optimized power use. These days most component are standard GPUs and open source software which is not optimized for minimal power use. It is a compromise to bring down overall device cost while perhaps using more power than necessary.