06-02-2013, 03:21 PM | #91 |
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From what I've seen it seems like it has some proprietary OS or perhaps stunted Android that will need to be rooted if you want full tablet capabilities, and then most likely you'll miss out on some of the features.
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06-02-2013, 03:57 PM | #92 |
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Sony has had its own OS for a long time now for eBook Readers. Teachers consider this a good thing so that students are sitting around playing games instead of using it as a book reader. (It is linux based I believe)
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06-03-2013, 10:27 AM | #93 | |
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Yes, eInk readings have a battery life of a month, if you only use it for half an hour a day. Yes, tablets tend to have a battery life of about 10 hours, if you use it continuously. Those figures are not in any way comparable. Yes, an eInk device will probably have a battery life somewhere between 2-4 times that of an LCD device. Why isn't it enough to just say that, rather that the repeating the misleading puffery that Amazon/B&N/etc put out? |
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06-03-2013, 10:45 AM | #94 |
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06-03-2013, 12:30 PM | #95 |
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It occurs to me, HarryT, that that external tool might work ok with this proposed e-reader. :-D
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06-03-2013, 03:54 PM | #97 |
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All I can say that if Sony actually brings this 13.3 to market under a price of $500 and it truly is an e-ink, I will buy despite their rootkit past. How easy can one be tempted..
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06-03-2013, 04:13 PM | #98 | |
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An e-reader uses very little power except for the brief time intervals when the screen is refreshed. If you use it to read books or documents, actual battery life is measured in whole days. Of course this is true only if you keep the wireless network off! (Tablets, on the contrary, require significant power just to keep the screen backlight on, and tend to have much faster -and power hungry- processors.) So: yes, those figures are comparable. Last edited by BoldlyDubious; 06-03-2013 at 04:17 PM. |
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One is counting time that the device is actually in use (tablet), the other is counted elapsed wallclock time, regardless of whether the device is used or not (eInk). On the same basis, you could say that the tablet will last two to three weeks. (If you only use it for half an hour a day.) It is deliberately misleading. Indeed I note that in Amazon's description of their eInk readers in the UK, they have removed the misleading chart they include in the US version, perhaps because of the stronger UK advertising regulations. |
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Hint: It's the tablet. |
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I said that. I said that eInk devices tend to have between 2-4 times the battery life, counting time spent actually using them, than LCD devices. But they don't have the 50x battery life that the misleading adverts pretend that they do. |
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06-04-2013, 08:09 AM | #104 | |
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Seems like the obvious thing to count. Does anyone seriously think that comparing one figure which is measured in days (but you can only use the device for half an hour a day) with another measured in hours (of constant use) is meaningful? Lets say a new tablet is released with 10x the battery life of current ones. So it lasts for 100 hours of continuous use. With the current advertising of eInk devices, they would claim a month of use for the eInk device vs 4 days for the tablet. Whereas in reality you could read for far longer on the tablet than the eInk device. It is simply misleading. The only purpose is advertising copy. eInk device battery lives used to be measured in page turns, until Amazon and B&N got into an advertising war about battery life. Last edited by murraypaul; 06-04-2013 at 08:13 AM. |
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06-04-2013, 08:24 AM | #105 |
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If it is only about reading, then, yeah, they do. Perhaps not 50 times the battery life of a tablet (which does a lot more things, even when you don't use it actively) but significantly more than just 2 or 4 times more.
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