I am back from my Italian adventure, enjoying every minute of walking down narrow Roman alleys, biking past Umbrian fields, and eating and drinking the riches of the campagna. I was undecided about bringing along the 7” Cruz Reader until the very last minute when my instinctual urges to check for emails won out. I had a fully charged tablet when I left the US.
When I arrived at the hotel in Rome, Velocity Micro’s tablet didn’t have enough oomph to power on. I began to notice a pattern. I would charge the slab for a few hours, use it for a bit, then go out and have my vacation. The next morning I would discover that the Reader had an uncanny ability to leak its charge overnight. As they say in Italian: basta! (enough).Continue reading