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Old 10-17-2016, 03:46 PM   #9
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Yes, absolutely. What I am missing in the article is the power consumption. I mean, they say uses less energy than a Kindle tablet. They must mean eink Kindle? Because the Fire tablets are nothing special, no more or less energy hungry than any other tablet.
They separately mention tablets, so they must mean eInk Kindles.

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But, if they mean eink it still doesn't make sense since it costs NO energy to keep the the display static, but a huge amount of energy to change it.
So reducing the amount of memory to change the display might be what they've done?
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