![]() ![]() used to reading on a phone or tablet theyre a revelation, and the Kobo Glo HD is no. The Kindle Voyage and the Kobo Glo HD are now mid-range ereaders.Īnd as for the Kindle Paperwhite, well, it is going to have to get a lot cheaper. Kobo Glo HD e-reader gives Kindle Voyage a run for its charging and. This leaves the Kobo Aura H2O, with its 6.8″ screen and $179 price tag, as the sole premium ereader on the market. To put it simply, Kobo has redefined what a premium ereader is and what it should cost. They have released an ereader which is comparable to the Kindle Voyage, and then they knocked $90 off of the regular price. I can’t speak for the markets down under, but the US, EU, and UK prices are equal to the regular price of the Kindle Paperwhite in those markets. I never liked that touchscreen, and what’s more Kobo makes up for the lack. The new Kobo Glo HD is scheduled to ship in the US, NZ, Canada, and Australia on the first, and it will cost: There’s no card slot, but it does of course have Wifi, a frontlight, and a touchscreen.Īfter looking at the leaked images, the leaked quick start guide ( PDF), and reading the press release ( PDF), it’s safe to say that the Glo HD won’t have the nifty edge-to-edge touchscreen found on the Kindle Voyage, but I’m fine with that. It runs Kobo’s software on a 1GHz CPU with 4GB internal storage. Met zijn 6,8'-scherm is de Kobo Aura H2O groter dan de Kindle Voyage, maar het verschil in gewicht is klein. The Glo HD sports a 6″ Carta E-ink display with a screen resolution of 1448 x 1072 and a sharpness on par with Retina screens (300ppi). This Toronto-based ebook company just launched the Kobo Glo HD, a 6″ ereader with specs similar to the Kindle Voyage, only at a much lower price. Its $149 price tag forced B&N and Amazon to drop the prices of their models, resulting in a much cheaper ereader market. That wasn’t a very good device, and Kobo didn’t have a huge market share, but Kobo was selling it cheap in the US and Canada. ![]() In 2010 Kobo disrupted the ereader market when it released its first Kobo Reader. Kobo Disrupts the eReader Market with a $129 Kindle Voyage Competitor Today we look at the eBook and PDF experience on the Kindle Voyage and waterproof Kobo Aura H2O. ![]()
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