Only. Cool ad. 🙄
Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150
Submitted 8 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.pocket-lint.com/kobo-announces-its-first-ever-ereaders-with-color-e-ink/
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millie@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Syn_Attck@lemmy.today 8 months ago
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.
EndHD@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
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.
huginn@feddit.it 8 months ago
What do you mean their day is half an hour?
My e-reader battery barely flutters after several hours of reading.
ECB@feddit.de 8 months ago
When they say something like “60 days battery life” what they mean is using the device for half an hour everyday for 60 days.
OP is arguing that it would make more sense to just say the continuous use battery life, which in the above example would be 30 hours (60 × 0.5)
politicalcustard@beehaw.org 8 months ago
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.
unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Kobo is open source? I don’t think so.
targetx@programming.dev 8 months ago
It’s not open source but it is easily rooted and you can install custom add-ons or even replace the os.
politicalcustard@beehaw.org 8 months ago
Sorry, you are correct. I researched plans to get a Kobo last year and I guess what I found out morphed from a rooted Kobo with Koreader into Kobo being open source. My apologies.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
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!
lowleveldata@programming.dev 8 months ago
Why can’t they just use Android. I have books on all kinds of book stores.
targetx@programming.dev 8 months ago
Using Calibre you could probably glue that together. I wouldn’t want Android on an ereader personally.
juliebean@lemm.ee 8 months ago
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.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 8 months ago
Onyx and Kobo do. But their battery life is way inferior to PocketBook, which uses Linux.
hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I’m not aware of any Kobo using Android.
esaru@beehaw.org 8 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.
Tempo@lemmy.ml 8 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.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
The black e ink version is 300ppi. The color ones are 150ppi, so half.