Thread: Reader on the airplain - is it electronic device or not;)
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Old 07-24-2007, 01:03 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by Nate the great View Post
Okay. So you're supposed to turn it off...


HOW?!? The Sony Reader doesn't turn off. It merely goes into standby.
The CPU is generally halted in standby mode, and this may well reduce any communications interference potential.

I assume that on e-ink devices, the CPU is in a halt state when one is reading, too. So it may be that if one is reading only one page, without changing pages, the device can be counted as off. But flipping pages causes a redraw, and that involves the CPU, and hence involves potential interference. How much interference? Nobody really knows for sure. But when so many lives are at stake, and the cost to one of putting the device away for a while is so low, surely the right thing to do is clear, even if the risks in fact are low.
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