Hey, I've picked up a couple of the Amazon Kindle 3's. That's the B&W E-Ink display one with the little button keyboard.
I use it as a reader only, it doesn't do anything else. Battery life is measured in weeks with moderatly heavy usage, months when it's just tucked in a drawer. I travel for work and having tech docs in ebook form is a life saver. Being able to DL anything else I need in under 5 min from anywhere my cell works is always worth the cost - my clients have never argued with these kind of expenses. No colour does suck but basically never worrying about charging it is a big plus. My biggest complaint with the device is that it is a bit fragile (I broke the first one I bought). i bought cases for the 2 I have now and they've been fine. Cheers JJ ----- Original message ----- > So I picked up a Kobo Vox today as my boxing day gift to myself. This > is the newer color tablet that runs android. > > While the underlying system is based on Android, they do replace the > default desktop with a Kobo specific theme. I could live with that - > afterall, it IS supposed to be a dedicated book replacement device, not > a generic tablet. But, the battery life on it is rather bad. After a > full charge, I was only getting about two hours of usage before it > needed recharging. The battery life may have been extended some if I > turned off the WiFi, but then the device is kinda useless unless you > already have all the books downloaded. And most of the other services > require a live net connection (i.e. shopping for books). For > comparison, I get a full day or two from my phone when I have WiFi AND > Bluetooth turned on. > > Being the sort of guy who could dive into a book and read for hours on > end, this situation kinda sucks. So, it has received a factory reset > (Settings -> Privacy -> Factory Reset) and it is getting returned > tomorrow. > > I'm debating if I should pick up one of the black/white models - I've > heard good things bout them from a few friends who own them. The > problem I have is that I don't know if I would actually use it. I mean > I do most of my electronic based reading on my Desktop as is, and both > my phone and HP TouchPad could fill that need as well. Hmmm, maybe > there is life in the TouchPad afterall... :) > > Anyways if you are looking at picking up a color Kobo, consider the > battery life... > > My thoughts. > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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