While I am generally fond of Kobo hardware, the tradeoffs Kobo made in the new Aura H2O’s design do not appeal. I received a review unit on Thursday, and as I sit here writing this post Tuesday night I find myself disappointed. Picture a seven-inch tablet with a 4:3 screen ratio and you will be about right. In physical terms, the new Aura H2O is about the same size and shape as the last model, only it is slightly thinner and has replaced the comfortable rubberized rear shell with a textured plastic shell. It has twice the storage of its predecessor, but no card slot for expansion. It has the same 6.8″, 1430 x 1080 resolution, screen and IR touchscreen as its predecessor, but on the plus side, it also has the new ComfortLight color-shifting frontlight as on the Kobo Aura One. The new Kobo Aura H2O runs Kobo’s proprietary software on a 1GHz Freescale SoloLite CPU with 512MB RAM. This second-gen ereader is styled after the Kobo Aura One and has the same color-shifting frontlight and general design, only with a 6.8″ screen.Īnd like the Aura One, the new Aura H2O is missing its card slot. On Tuesday Kobo launched the Aura H2O edition 2. TheKobo Aura H2O (2014) was clearly an improvement on its predecessor but I wouldn’t make the same claim about the new model, which costs $180 and is going to ship on the 22nd. When Kobo released the Kobo Aura H2O in 2014, it had a better frontlight, a waterproof shell that was pleasant to hold, and it didn’t lose any of the features of the Kobo Aura HD. I was personaly going to get an Aura 1 but the batteyr life being half of the others and also the size whilst great for mangas and the other features I hate recharging stuff.įinally my h20 w/ a cover _barely_ fits in a coat pocket/some pants pockets and I seriously doubt the aura 1 would unless you have giant pockets so that was the final thing that I would like to add, I like to put my books(now erader) in a coat pocket/pocket when i'm walking/not reading it.The New Kobo Aura H2O (2017) Gains a Colored Frontlight at the Expense of its microSD Card Slot I had actually read some on my old NST a 6" e-reader and it was on the bottom end of readable due to how small the screen was for reading text easily. I just rotate the h20 read double page, rotate it physically back and get on my merry way. I have read at least 2 volumes on it and in standard mode aka portrait it's OK, but you may want to manually rotate double pages yourself before putting it on there because the text can be too small for some o fthem it has built in image rotating options but I like to do itall at once and forget about it. But if you buy a cover you'll never see the backside so there's that. And lastly back side of the Aura ONE helped greatly over me chosing H2O along the no SD option, because I think Aura ONE cyan colored button and whole back looks ugly but H2O has weird purple color and not that black, I was expecting something more rubbery instead of this odd finish. What I didn't wrote was the grooves around the screen catches some dust and might be annoying at times if you're sensitive about it, but quick wipe does wonders. I've wrote some complaints in other posts, basically they are, H2O is little bit on the heavy side when you handle it first and foldering system/mainscreen customization is bit limited. I'd say definitely use KCC since it reduces/enlarges the size of the pages to your device which helps with faster turn pages. If you'll read below my complaints are really minor and nitpicky so overall I think you'll like it if you're buying it for reading manga. Which works great so far, I read lots of manga in a short time. The reason I bought this was because I saw Aura ONE and thought it'd be a great device to read manga, then I found out that it doesn't have any SD card slots so I went with H2O. I've only seen my friends kindle ereader other than my H2O so compared to that it has a really papery looking/feeling screen. The screen has no obstructions because the touchscreen isn't like the ones on the phones, so you don't have a chunky layer of another material in front of the screen, which I believe Aura ONE has compared to H2O. What's better is the resolution and the great looking screen. I think the size is so close to sweet spot, could've been little bit bigger but most people wouldn't even notice it probably.
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