You are right Jaed...they never promised it or I'd have thrashed them even more, but if you like, you can read their "community statement"
I'll quote the relevant part:
Quote:
Q) Will there be an operating mode on the iLiad, which suspends after every page turn to give us the 10.000 page turns?
A) Yes, this will be part of our power management optimization activities. However do note that in order to improve the speed of the page turns pre-rendering is required. Pre-rendering stops once all links are pre-rendered and so preventing the processor from going to standby after a page turn.
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you can read it all
here
the reason for my outrage is that I had talked to them evenbefore the device was launched and they also more or less promised that they would have the kind of Page-turn based battery-life the Sony Reader has.
Maybe I can't catch them with a direct lie (if you discount the statement above), but if you want a paper-like experience that contains the added bonus of needing about 1 minute to get back to the book you were reading or to take notes or to do anything at all...then you'll probably be very happy with the Iliad.
If it were something new and revolutionary they were trying, I'd perhaps be kinder, but since just about every PDA out there does this today (I've got a really old and cheap PDA lying here actually) right out of the box, I don't see any reason to be nice about it.