Thread: Android App why kobo does not develop eink reader?
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Old 06-25-2015, 05:56 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by trocchietto View Post
Good point, but first of all as I showed they are far to be focused on sw in my opnion, (see pdf experience, and dictionaries for instance), and second the eink battery lasts ages, if you then open a lot of app that do not optimize the android cycle is your fault. Android 4 stock optimize really well the battery, and as you say regarding doing well one task, if you have good inbuilt dictionaries you do not need to look up in internet using wifi all the time, but opening only to do small things, the problem is that Kobo and Amazon want maybe benefit from Big Data but this is a personal opinion.
Every added app will draw more battery, and optimising isn't going to help that. As ebook readers have a small current draw, they typically have small batteries in comparison to tablets.

You're asking to turn an e-reader into a tablet. A poor one at that.
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