With news of the release of Kobo H20 Edition 2, it has confirmed my suspicion that Kobo seems to be permanently dropping support for an external memory slot. It’s simply much easier to simply transfer everything onto a Kobo with enough memory. Even in Calibre on a 1080p monitor, displaying 18 book cover icons per page, to physically look at each icon takes over 3-5 hours with a 5,000 book collection (and certainly more if you start think about it). If you have a large book collection, do you realize how much time it takes to pick and choose from your collection. I wish that Kobo would increase the microSD limit beyond 32G or provide dual memory card slots. Yes, the Aura One costs $50 more, but it’s still a better value. Its screen is larger and sharper, and it supports direct Overdrive integration. It can do everything the new Aura H2O can do except change the color of the frontlight, and you can find it cheap on Ebay.īut if you really like the red-shifting frontlight then you’re better off with the Aura One. If you want a 6.8″ screen, get the previous model. I checked with Kobo, and they said: "we will ensure to let you know if we decide to integrate the OverDrive feature in other devices in the future".Īll in all, I can’t recommend this device. ( Yes, it is four years later and E-ink and Kobo still have not bumped the screen resolution.)įurthermore, the new Aura H2O does not have the OverDrive integration found in the Aura One. Even the screen resolution is the same as on the original Kobo Aura HD, a device which was released in 2013. There’s simply no obvious improvement over the last model. The new device gained its new frontlight at the expense of a card slot and a comfortable shell, making it less of an upgrade than a sidestep. 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.
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