Thread: What Additional Function would you like to see in your reader?
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Old 10-25-2009, 09:31 AM   #85
WT Sharpe
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Originally Posted by FragFrog View Post
Personally, I'd settle for a clock in the status bar already Seems somewhat strange to me having to go into the settings menu just to check up on the time.
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Originally Posted by Dylrob View Post
The reason most eInk based devices get such long battery lives is primary because the display is bistable... it only draws power when refreshing. The problem is that in order to have a proper on-screen clock the device would need to refresh at regular intervals.
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114 View Post
They could just have the clock refresh with each page turn.
This is a great idea, dmaul1114. Clocks use very minuscule amounts of power, and anytime you needed to know the current time, you could simply turn the page.
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