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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I would love a larger capacity battery. If Kobo had made the Aura One the same weight as the H2O with a higher capacity battery, that would have been so much better. I don;t find the weight of the H2O to be a problem at all.
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Larger battery = more weight, and batteries are by and large the largest contributor to device weight. But if you really, really want more battery life without much additional weight/bulk then get a TravelCard.
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What I don't get is why people are complaining about weight. When The Sony Reader PRS-500 and the original Kindle came out, they were even heavier. Yet we didn't get the types of complaints about weight that we do now.
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Two related reasons come to mind.
The first is that one of the tradeoffs made in portable devices is convenience of carry vs. convenience of use. As a rule, consumers prefer convenience of carry over convenience of use (this was a major factor in Palm's dominance in the PDA space). They see reductions in size (but not too small) and weight as improvements.
The second is that when PRS-500 and Kindle 1 were new, people like me carrying around notebooks and phones and PDAs and readers and whatever else (I was once described as being "horribly begadgeted") were the exception. Now they're the norm.
Taken together, weight is a legitimate concern for product designers. If the device is too heavy as perceived by the potential market then that market won't buy into it regardless of how good everything else is.