iPod Touch battery lasts nine hours for indoor reading: Test from Fictionwise’s Steve Pendergrast and son
Is a Fictionwise dynasty on the way?
Already co-owner Steve Pendergrast’s 13-year son has built a page-turning robot to help his father test the battery life of the iPod Touch for e-reading.
So what are the preliminary results of the test?
Backlight 100%: 4.5 hours
Backlight 50%: 7 hours
Backlight 33%: 9.5 hours
Backlight 0%: 15 hours
You can read the details here. Thanks, Steve & son!
Thirty-percent brightness "great" for e-reading indoors
"I find 30 percent or so is great for indoor reading," Steve says, "which is where I usually read, so we’re talking 9 to 10 hours for iPod Touch in that situation—which is pretty darn good." Alas, he found that inverse video apparently does not stretch out battery life.
"We will of course be running tests on the 3G after we finish up with the Touch," adds Steve, whose company also owns eReader.com and offers that app for the iPhone and Touch.
"We will also test things like: does font size matter? (larger font = faster page turn time), does page animation matter? Does orientation matter?"
I hope shares with us the additional information—I love informative posts like this. Let’s see more. If you want, you can e-mail them to me for reproduction in the main part of the TeleBlog.
Other battery life tips for the iPhone and Touch: My original item and comments from Yoda (turn off WiFi) and Gerry Manacsa (reminder of the iPhone’s airplane mode).
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