Thread: eReaders, CPU die-shrinks and battery life.
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Old 05-14-2015, 05:31 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
As I said in my previous post, by far the biggest user of power is the screen (when you turn the page). The amount of power used by the CPU when it's in its low-power sleep mode is very small indeed.
Sorry, I missed that. But if the CPU is such a small proportion of the power usage, then why are users of Android eReaders reporting substantially shorter battery lives (due to Android's heavier CPU usage)?
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