An abundance of Claras, a derth of Libra(s)

[rcentros]

Originally Posted by DNSB

The Libra Colour battery is rated at 3.87V, charging limit voltage is 4.45V. Rated capacity is 2050mAH, typical capacity is 2085mAH. At least that's what the label on the battery says. Looks just like the image on ifixit.com.

By comparison, the Libra 2 battery says the rated voltage is 3.7V and the charging limit voltage is 4.2V. Rated capacity is min 1420mAH, typical 1500mAH.

So if Kobo came out with a Libra BW using this battery, you would have a really nice improvement in battery life compared to the Libra 2. (Providing any speed upgrades to the CPU didn't use a significantly higher amount of power.)

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Some later flush screens seem to be part of the eink panel, which means the screen is custom to that model, though replacing eink panels isn't as successful and a lot more expensive than LCD due to lack of competition and a calibration factor.

It does look like either the new Kobo allow for calibration of the screen or 4.39 allows it on all Kobo. We won't know until the older Kibo get 4.39 or 5.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by rcentros

So if Kobo came out with a Libra BW using this battery, you would have a really nice improvement in battery life compared to the Libra 2. (Providing any speed upgrades to the CPU didn't use a significantly higher amount of power.)

Even if we only got a small battery improvement that would be OK especially with the faster speed. I'd be up for it easily.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by rcentros

So if Kobo came out with a Libra BW using this battery, you would have a really nice improvement in battery life compared to the Libra 2. (Providing any speed upgrades to the CPU didn't use a significantly higher amount of power.)

As far as I can tell from various press releases, the MediaTek MT8113 dual-core CPUs used in the Elipsa 2E, Libra Colour & Clara Colour are slightly more power efficient than the single core Freescale iMX 6 CPUs used in many other of Kobo's ereaders.