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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I don't know, supposedly there were going to be two power management modes with the DR1000. The "turn itself off after X number of hours" was a temporary place holder for the second power management mode, which they have not yet added to the DR1000. The question is what modes does the DR800 have. I don't think we know that yet.
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Well, from earlier comments it looks like a quick slide of the power switch puts it into a suspend mode similar to the Sony and Kindle. Time to come back from that mode is a few seconds. The second option is to slide the power switch for a few seconds which completely shuts it down, again similar to the Sony and Kindle and time to boot from that mode is about 55 seconds.
Now the big question is how low is the power consumption in the suspend mode and can it last in that mode for an extended period of time. From memory, my old 505 would drop about 25%/week in that mode so if the 800 is even close to that I'll be pretty pleased. Somebody posted earlier that they've been using it quite extensively from the initial charge and they're still around 50% and that their impression was that it was a big improvement from the iliad.