Kobo disappointing Battery life

[Denodan1]

What a disappointing battery life Kobo has compared to Kindle. I read a lot on my Kobo Clara and maybe get 4 or 5 days before I need to charge. Far less than my Kindle paperwhite 11th 6.8"

[Sirtel]

The 11th gen PW apparently has exceptional battery life, no other device comes close. If that bothers you, stick to the PW.

[mergen3107]

Or get Kobo Clara BW - it also has MediaTek processor, as PW5.

Not sure about Colour devices though (which have MediaTek too) due to their color pixels overhead.

[Aleron Ives]

What overhead? Kaleido is just a passive filter on top of the B&W screen.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by mergen3107

Or get Kobo Clara BW - it also has MediaTek processor, as PW5.

Not sure about Colour devices though (which have MediaTek too) due to their color pixels overhead.

And the need to really up the light even when you normally would not due to the color overlay making the screen much darker.

[cerem0ny]

I have a question - I wonder if anyone can help me- I’ve been interested in getting a Sage but have heard of a pretty average battery life.

I keep my Libra Colour at about brightness 70% (!) to compensate for the dark screen. When I was using B+W readers I’d keep brightness up to about 15%.

With these conditions, and wifi off, do you think the battery life of both devices would be comparable? My LC lasts about a day before I have to recharge…. What do you think?

[Sirtel]

I would think the Sage lasts a day with the light at 15% and wifi off, but it depends on how many hours you spend reading. If 8-10, then maybe not.

My Sage at 9% lasts for a few days, but then I don't read 8 hours a day, as some folks here do.

[HLS]

My KOBOs have a better battery life than kidle.

[HLS]

Originally Posted by cerem0ny

I have a question - I wonder if anyone can help me- I’ve been interested in getting a Sage but have heard of a pretty average battery life.

I keep my Libra Colour at about brightness 70% (!) to compensate for the dark screen. When I was using B+W readers I’d keep brightness up to about 15%.

With these conditions, and wifi off, do you think the battery life of both devices would be comparable? My LC lasts about a day before I have to recharge…. What do you think?

My sage battery life is good considering it has a bigger screen than most

[DNSB]

The Libra Colour battery is quite a bit larger than the Sage battery, 2050mAH compared to the 1200mAH battery. The LC has a MediaTek chipset which has pretty decent power management, the Sage has an Allwinner chipset which have become known for poor power management. OTOH, both devices have a USB-C port and charge faster than Kobo's older USB micro-B port using devices.

[PHughes]

Originally Posted by Denodan1

What a disappointing battery life Kobo has compared to Kindle. I read a lot on my Kobo Clara and maybe get 4 or 5 days before I need to charge. Far less than my Kindle paperwhite 11th 6.8"

Which Clara do you have? I had the Clara HD and continually had battery calibration issues with it. It had poor battery life compared to my previous Kobo H2O. I did occasionally get the battery meter calibrated by letting it run down, then charging for 24 hours, but it was still flakey at times.

It finally died altogether, and I opened it up thinking I'd put in a new SD card and new image to restore it, but decided instead to buy a new Kobo BW. Glad I did, the battery life is what I was used to with my older Kobos. I got a little over four weeks out of the first charge, and many books were read. I'm currently at 62% battery and have been using it for 2 1/2 weeks on this charge.

The Clara HD was a constant annoyance for me regarding the battery issues it had.

[shamanNS]

Originally Posted by mergen3107

Or get Kobo Clara BW - it also has MediaTek processor, as PW5.

Not sure about Colour devices though (which have MediaTek too) due to their color pixels overhead.

I'm not that convinced that Mediatek procesor will be enough, since Kobos with the same FreeScale / NXP i.MX6 SoloLite had worse battery life than Kindles with same SoC and same size & generation eInk panel.

As I mentioned in similar topic Kobo Libra 2's battery life is horribly bad when compared to Kindle PW5 / 11th gen Paperwhite.
Like 3 to 4 times less text read per single battery charge

Although I would sure like to read about someone's experience with Clara BW from someone who has an older generation Kobo to compare it to.

If that model's battery life doesn't suck then maaaaybe there is point in hoping for a hypothetical Libra BW in the future and for that model to have ok battery life thanks to Mediatek SoC and newer motherboard / newer "Kobo mark" hardware generation.

[Aleron Ives]

If the PW5 lasts 4x longer than the Libra 2, how many hours can you read per charge?

[Denodan1]

Kobo lasts longer than Kindle Oasis out of the case. Had the worst battery life

[JSWolf]

How good is the power management of the 1.8Ghz AllWinner B300 quad core processor?