Quote:
|
Originally Posted by ali
The picture in my head is that somebody looked an energy consumptions and figured the device could theoretically have about 15 hours battery if everything was turned off when not needed. And some sales guy / manager translated this to "work week times 3 hours", completely ignoring that "theoretically" doesn't mean "really". And now they struggled to increase battery time by addressing the worst energy consumer (cpu), proclaimed it'd by "8 hours", later reduce it to "greatly" and finally just get one additional hour. And next week they simply remove the 3xweek-announement from their website, just like they did with DRM.
|
Welcome to the world of marketing. Personally, I see an increase in battery life by 22 % as good news. And if they can continue to make improvement then this would be even better.
Quote:
|
Originally Posted by ali
And if I'm sitting here in some month with an Iliad with 5-8 hours battery and xpdf rendering my pages in 20 seconds, I truly spent an awful amount of money for something that's not nearly worth it.
|
Um... Well yes, thats what we were told before we bought it... The Illiad is a work in progress of a new type of technology. I see the Illiad as getting in on the bottom rung of something that could change how we view books and electronic documents.
Oh, and which would you prefer...? The Sony Reader released sometime whenever, or a pre-release Illiad now, and improving over time...? I'm guessing both products will be "finished" at the same time. Just we get to play with the Illiad now.
