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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How would the battery life of an Android Reader be if you disabled all the useless/unneeded tasks/programs that run by default?
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Well, some eink models do have ability to turn off "Google Framework", then some apps fail. The Boyue Likebook Mars (7.8″) is much better then, but still not as good as as Sage (no BT, no WiFi, No light). OTOH, "Sleep" battery life is hugely better than a Kindle PW3. It has a real "power off", but that's not needed if used once a week.
The Mars has a far better GUI than stock Android and the included/built in reader is better than KO Reader for PDFs and epubs once you figure the serttings (though KOReader is better for "broken" epubs). Sadly Pocketbook doesn't work (runs). Lichess and K9 mail work, but no solitaire I've tried. Bolinda Borrow box stopped working.
Basically eink needs a different Launcher and many apps that run, render poorly, even with a load of eink refresh settings per app.
Sony's T1 and T2 (used both) and short lived T3 used Android, but basically a custom GUI similar to PRS-350 / PRs-650. The T2 is OK, but I took the T1 back as it had the freezing when dictionary accessed bug. I can't think why Sony changed from Linux to Android (less than V4 as it's Mass Storage, not MTP) as the T1 and T2 didn't have Playstore (IMO the only reason for Android) no obvious extra functionality. I suspect a Management/Political decision, not Engineering and Sony ditched ereaders that year. The DPT eink a completely different market and seemed to be crippled by Sony SW.
Sony HW was generally crippled by their media politics (CD root kit fiasco, though you safe if you didn't have Autorun, Minidisc PC SW, removing Linux from PS/2 etc).