Barnes & Noble Offers Nook Battery Life Clarification, Amazon Ups The Battery Life For The Kindle [Nook & Kindle Both Being Touted As Having Two Months Battery Life, Do Either Care To Make It Three Months]

Posted on TFTS by Robert Nelson on Thursday, 26. May 2011 under: Devices

Barnes & Noble announced the second generation Nook the other day and one of the points they were touting was the battery life. Which for those who may have missed that announcement, was up to two months. Sounds good, sounds really good, especially when a quick check of the Amazon website was showing the Kindle with a battery life of up to one month.

Well, as it turns out, Barnes & Noble has offered an updated statement in terms of achieving that battery life. And just to be short with it, based on your reading time you could even stretch that out to three months of life. You see, those who read everyday and read for more than 30 minutes would not be seeing two months. Of course, while that may be disappointing for some, it seems better than what Amazon did — made some changes to ~~better reflect~~ increase the battery life of the Kindle.

But first, the statement from Barnes & Noble;

“With up to two months on a single charge, the all-new Nook has the longest-battery life in the industry and superior battery performance to Kindle 3. In our side-by-side tests, under the exact same conditions, continuous use of the device resulted in more than two times Kindle’s battery life. While reading at one page a minute, the all-new Nook battery lasts for 150 hours where the Kindle battery, using the same page-turn rate, lasts for only 56 hours (both with Wi-Fi off). We’ve also done a continuous page turn test and at one page turn per second, the all-new Nook offers more than 25,000 continuous page turns on a single charge.”

And now for the update in terms of the Kindle;

“A single charge lasts up to two months with wireless off based upon a half-hour of daily reading time. If you read for one hour a day, you will get battery life of up to one month. Keep wireless always on and it lasts for up to 10 days. Battery life will vary based on wireless usage, such as shopping the Kindle Store, Web browsing, and downloading content. In low-coverage areas or in EDGE/GPRS-only coverage, wireless usage will consume battery power more quickly.”

Bottom line here, either device should be able to give you more than enough reading time without having to constantly worrying about finding a power source. And in reality, even if you have to plug it in once a week or so to top things off — is that really so bad? Of course, the ones we feel bad for at the moment is Kobo, who launched their updated reader back on May 23rd and touted a battery life of up to two weeks.

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