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What's the battery life? That's a HUGE issue on mobile devices and it's something that you really have to optimize for. I'm surprised it isn't mentioned on the page (or, suspicious it's not good and was omitted on purpose).

Running generic Linux (as opposed to something highly customized like Android) makes me worry the battery life won't be that great.

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Its a 7280mAh, which is ok. About the same as the old Samsung 10in tablets.

As for usage. Yeah I have no clue. BQ's Ubuntu Phone apparently gets around 2 days worth of use for most users, so who knows.

That makes sense, but if you can run 'real' linux apps instead of just 'tablet' apps you could be in for some hurt.

Would powertop be able to help?

You could use programs like that to figure out what the cause was. I'm just thinking that most programs for linux aren't written to be ultra-battery misers. The prevalence of laptops has probably helped, but I'd be willing to guess it's still a problem.

Ah, I was referring to the "Tunables" tab.

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