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Originally Posted by NatCh
You're clearly thinking of the iLiad, after 8 months I'll only have charged my Reader a dozen times or so.  |
The storage capacity of lithium ion batteries is not just affected by charging cycles. Environmental conditions, as well as leaving the device on its charging dock can negatively affect battery performance in as little as 8 months.
In addition, you also need to discharge Lithium Ion batteries once a month to keep them at peak storage efficiency. So, with an ebook device that runs so long on a charge, how do you get it to do its once a month discharge?
I also hope Sony doesn't attempt to exploit "green" in their sales efforts for the Sony Reader. Their decision to build the Lithium Ion battery into the device in such a manner as it can't be simply removed: in the future I see this as becoming illegal.
We simply can not allow manufacturers to continue to build things like Lithium Ion batteries into mobile devices and not allow them to be easily removed for proper handling post consumer usage. Sony has a zillion removable Lithium Ion batteries for use in devices such as their DSC-T9 pocket cameras. They have little excuse for not using one of them in a similar manner in the Sony Reader system.