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Originally Posted by repods
1) the way the user have to read the zoomed documents: you are forced to use the pen plus the flip bar to turn the pages if all the words of the page don't fit the screen due to the zooming level..
in this situation, I mean, you are forced to stay in panning mode, and this means that you can move the page with the flip bar but you have to use the pen over the arrows to turn the page.
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It was previously discussed/suggested that the flip bar should pan until it reaches the end of the page, and then the next press of the flip bar would be a regular page turn. I'm pretty sure iRex developers on here were participating in that discussion, but I don't remember whether or not they said it would be something added before the final 2.0 release, or if they had something else in mind.
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2) the fact that THE WACOM IS NEVER TURNED OFF while reading any kind of document..
differently by the DR1000, where when you place the pen in its internal box the wacom layer get turned off thus preventing the battery drain, here the pen is always active, in any situation; but while it's obvious that the pen must be active during scribble, the main use of the reader by the point of view of time, is obviously just the one of reading..
and while simply reading the pen is of no-use.. so I guess that if an option to turn off wacom would be added the battery could last way more time..
(the fact the the wacom is always on can be verified by simply considering that in any situation the menu button and the arrows can be pressed)
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This is something that a lot of people have some misconceptions about. First off, the iLiad is the only device that turns off the WACOM layer when the pen is put in the device. The DR1000 does not have that feature.
The real misunderstanding though, is in how the WACOM layer draws power. There was some extensive testing done back in the iLiad days that showed that writing on the screen is what really causes the WACOM to draw power. Whether or not the layer is disabled when the pen is stored in the device doesn't actually make any significant difference to the battery drain. In this case, the WACOM layer is basically idle and doesn't really draw much power.
So, technically you are correct that it does not disable the WACOM layer, but the main reason they don't is because it wouldn't really make any noticeable difference. The real battery conservation comes from just not writing on the screen.