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Old August 27th, 2007, 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by gr@h@m View Post
That player would have either have been using memory to store the information before turning off or it didn't turn off fully. One compromises the memory you can use, the other compromises the battery life. Companies have to choose what they think is best
However, the tiny amount of space it would take to store the information in question is incomparable to the cost in battery life.
Yes, half a percent isn't much but it's still considerably higher than the proportion of capacity that would be lost.

Also, given that older iRiver devices are capable of resuming songs after being completely powered down, it is rather incomprehensible that newer ones would lack such a basic feature.
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