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Originally Posted by Barty
What WOULD be interesting to me is if they can make it fast enough that it can run general apps. There are lots of text heavy material I'd like to read on a nice e-ink screen -- rss feeds, blogs, Pocket, email, forums etc. E-ink tablet would be a new category of device (calm down, folks, you can still keep your e-reader). It won't happen though, because I think Amazon wants to keep a clear delineation between their kindle and Fire product line.
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One of the reason an eInk Kindle has such a good battery life is because the relatively power-hungry CPU goes into a very low-power sleep mode between page turns. Making it run general apps would necessitate having an always-awake CPU, with a consequent significant decrease in battery life. That's why the eInk general-purpose Android tablets have a battery life measured in days, rather than weeks as the eInk readers do.