The black e ink version is 300ppi. The color ones are 150ppi, so half.
Comment on Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150
esaru@beehaw.org 2 months ago
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 use of an E ink eReader.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Tempo@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
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.