Elfwine opened this issue on Nov 19, 2007 · 47 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Mon, 19 November 2007 at 4:41 PM
My Palm T|X goes for around 8 hours without needing to be recharged. Plus you can purchase a portable battery charger for it that uses something like 4AA batteries. The batteries are good for several recharges, IIRC.
Sony has recently come out with an expensive ($300) so-called "Reader" which has a screen that looks exactly like printed paper. The unit doesn't use any power at all to display the image, it only uses power when you "turn pages". It does not have a backlight, and it only comes in grayscale -- no color images. They might come out with a color version one of these days........a coworker of mine bought one -- but I don't think that it's worth the $300 pricetag, especially considering that my Palm does considerably more than just mono-use ebook reading -- plus the Palm is backlit, so that you can read it when the room / outdoors is dark. But the Sony Reader is a neat gizmo, I have to admit. Maybe it'll make a nice Christmas gift for someone: