Comments on: For e-bookers who value battery life—a warning: ‘Up to’ is a great cop-out http://www.teleread.org/2009/06/26/for-e-bookers-who-value-battery-life-a-warning-up-to-is-a-great-cop-out/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:54:31 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brad Vertrees http://www.teleread.org/2009/06/26/for-e-bookers-who-value-battery-life-a-warning-up-to-is-a-great-cop-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1088315 Brad Vertrees Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:34:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/06/26/for-e-bookers-who-value-battery-life-a-warning-up-to-is-a-great-cop-out/#comment-1088315 I've also learned to ignore what the manufacturer claims about battery life. For example, as much as I love my Sony Reader PRS-500, the battery lasts nowhere near as long as Sony claims it's supposed to. Same with my 1st gen. iPhone. After a day of even moderate use, the battery is pretty drained. I've learned to work around this, for me it is just an annoyance that goes with the gadget territory. I’ve also learned to ignore what the manufacturer claims about battery life. For example, as much as I love my Sony Reader PRS-500, the battery lasts nowhere near as long as Sony claims it’s supposed to.

Same with my 1st gen. iPhone. After a day of even moderate use, the battery is pretty drained. I’ve learned to work around this, for me it is just an annoyance that goes with the gadget territory.

]]> By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.org/2009/06/26/for-e-bookers-who-value-battery-life-a-warning-up-to-is-a-great-cop-out/comment-page-1/#comment-1088312 Steve Jordan Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:30:40 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/06/26/for-e-bookers-who-value-battery-life-a-warning-up-to-is-a-great-cop-out/#comment-1088312 The thing to do... always... is to ignore the manufacturer's reports about such things as performance and battery life, and do what people do on all other products: Rely on third-party evaluators to apply independent benchmarks to products. Anyone who takes a manufacturer's word about the performance of their own products is setting themselves up for a fall. The thing to do… always… is to ignore the manufacturer’s reports about such things as performance and battery life, and do what people do on all other products: Rely on third-party evaluators to apply independent benchmarks to products. Anyone who takes a manufacturer’s word about the performance of their own products is setting themselves up for a fall.

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