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Originally Posted by HarryT
While the following devices do NOT have a good standby battery life (a week or less):
iRex iLiad, DR1000, DR800
Bookeen CyBook, Opus
Sony PRS-600
BeBook Neo/Onyx Book 60
B&N nook
Pocketbook 360
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The ARM processor has been specifically designed to be able to power down all peripherals and enter an extremely low power "sleep" mode ever since the ARM 7 architecture back in the mid 1990s. Any eInk device using the ARM architecture and not taking full advantage of the sleep mode is deficient in design, in my book. But, that is just me.
I guess that in light of your extensive research above that I should retract the statement "'many' eInk devices may be a bit of an exaggeration." I did not realize that so many were so poorly designed in the power management area of design. I did know that the initial Astak and BeBook Hanlin V5 devices had deficient power management in the initial firmware release, but that was subsequently corrected.