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Old Apr 11, 2011 | 5:15 am
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Originally Posted by number_6
One problem is that rated battery life is shorter than some QF flight durations And you can't use external batteries or swap batteries on an iPad.
There are a few third-party cases with inbuilt battery packs - Jetstar's using one for their iPad-as-IFE rollout (although I don't see that the idea is for the QF iPads to be used all the time during flight).
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