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Originally Posted by slm
the SOCs may run Android fine but no Android-based ereader has the battery life of a Kindle (or a Kobo or a Pocketbook for that matter).
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Nook always ran on an Android foundation. Yes, I'm aware of the GlowLight 4e's terrible battery life, but it's because B&N cut huge corners to make it cheap to manufacture. Battery capacity and power efficiency suffered. They addressed these problems in the 4 Plus.
Also, PocketBook are running full Android on their InkPad line though that's not necessarily a fair comparison because it's a big 10" screen with a digitizer layer. These are going to need much more power than a relatively simple 6" or 7" reader.
But regardless of specific devices, it's been demonstrated that Android can be a reasonably efficient software stack for ereaders so I don't see why Amazon couldn't do the same.