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Why do tablets that don't exist yet need to have such crappy battery life? Perhaps they will (one common design scaleback is the battery), and perhaps they won't. Perhaps some will use energy-conserving transflective displays, and some may use advanced e-papers that are not mainstream at the moment.
Yes, the probability is high that many of the tablets released soon will have real world battery life of less than 10 hours, and most will have simple backlit LCD displays. Such things are not geared to reading really, and in my opinion don't really aspire to do so.
There will however be better tablets, perhaps very soon and perhaps a year or two off, that will transcend some of those more traditional boundaries. That's what many people here are waiting for...not just another standard tablet PC which has been seen before and will be seen again.
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