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Originally Posted by Sydney's Mom
For reading, I need to be able to have a charge whenever I might want to read, and the tablet isn't going to give me that.
What am I missing?
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You're missing that (usable) tablets have a battery life of 9-12 hours.
Any tablet without a 9 hour life seems useless to me. I use a Q7 daily, and it runs for 12 hours on a charge.
That outlasts a kindle.
I challenge you to actually measure your reading time with an eInk based device as compared to a tablet that is being used for reading. Turning on the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth capabilities of a tablet seems silly. I know very few people reading these forums will rate their Sony PRS' battery life while listening to audio. (My Q7 outlasts the PRS-505 I gave away when both are used for reading a PDF and listening to an MP3)
I do forget to recharge my tablet at times. My Q7 will recharge while running. I get 24 hours from a Socket MPP battery, or 8 hours from 4 NiMH AAs.
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Originally Posted by Bremen Cole
I think you will quickly see battery life in the 6-10 hour range for the new generation tablets.
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What do you call the new generation? The Smart Devices Q7 and V7 get 12 hours. The Viliv S7 gets 9.5 hours off each battery, and Dynamism ships a second battery with the device (for 19 hours.)
I've been using your next generation tablets this school year, and I've found them good enough.
IMHO, the next generation of tablets will improve by extending the battery life to 24 hours or more, and be readable in bright sunlight by integrating a PixelQi or LiquaVistaColor screen.
Andy