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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Just to clarify, the 30% increase to 8 hours that iRex is talking about is NOT the final solution to battery life. The DR runs right now with basically no power management features. In addition to that, there is a bug in the software that is causing a loss of an additional 30%.
The fix they are talking about in the blog will fix the software bug so that when the device is running constantly at full speed, it will improve the battery life from 5 hours to 8 hours (or somewhere around there). This makes sense as well based on reports from some retailers who said that they had gotten 8 hours of battery life with a "beta" version of the software. It sounds like a software bug made it into the final release that was missed during testing.
After they fix this software bug, they are still going to release a future update that will implement the power management functionality. That is when you will see a dramatic improvement in the battery life.
wallcraft, I think what you're missing is that with the power management functionality, the DR will go into suspend mode in between page turns during normal usage.
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Exactly. The 8 hours is without the future PM improvements.