Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150
Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150
I can only advice to try out a color E ink eReader in person. Their screen is usually low contrast and dark, to a degree that you need to use it with backlight by default, which kinda defeats the purpose of an E ink eReader. For E ink, monochrome displays are still the way to go, and if you really need color, a device without E ink.
I used a Hisense A5 Pro CC phone for a few months as my daily driver. For books, colour eink is okay at best but yeah, contrast sucks. It pretty much always will with the extra layers of filtering needed for each colour.
Outside of static pages of text and images, you pretty much need to drop colour depth to pretty garish levels for a decently responsive user experience. It's a nice idea but really isn't very good in practice.
The black e ink version is 300ppi. The color ones are 150ppi, so half.
Only. Cool ad. 🙄
Interesting thumbnail strategy on this ad. It's hard to see it as just a seat. My mind keeps trying to make it into a human palm, so I'm seeing a tiny Polly Pocket tablet and stylus.
Good catch. I got excited seeing this, but I can't say I'm 250 USD excited. Maybe if I had more time to read.
I wish they wouldn't advertise days of battery life, when their "day" is 1/2 an hour. Just say how many hours the battery will run. The math for how long it'll run for my use is not rocket science. It's good to see color E Ink in a reasonable price range. I think I'll wait for the size to increase while staying affordable.
What do you mean their day is half an hour?
My e-reader battery barely flutters after several hours of reading.
I can't wait to get a (regular) Kobo, my Kindle Paperwhite is still going strong and it's 10 years old, but I really want a Kobo because it's opensource. Amazon's OS is dreadful, mine's been in airplane mode for most of those 10 years and I just use a usb cable with it. I hope it dies soon so I will have a good excuse to replace it.
Kobo is open source? I don't think so.
We're looking at 40 days based on 30 minutes of daily reading at 30% brightness, and with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned off. Dropping the brightness down to 10% nets an increase to 53 total days of runtime.
So as long as you don't use it, the battery will last a long time!
Why can't they just use Android? I have books on all kinds of book stores.
some ereaders do use android, my old onyx did, but honestly i much prefer the dedicated solution kobo has. they could use android, but if they've got the resources to make their own os targeting their actual use case instead of cramming a mobile phone os in there, why wouldn't they? even their os has too much cruft for my taste, but it is a lot less than an android ereader.
I still have an old Kindle but rarely use it since Amazon makes it a nightmare to sync notes/read other books on. Looking at Kobo’s high prices for their models with stylus note abilities, the Remarkable looks like a much better deal with bigger screen size, full file support, note transcription, pdf signing, more accessories, and ebook reading. If anyone has used Remarkable id be interested to hear what you think of it.