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Old 09-02-2014, 08:51 AM   #166
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I've still not received a reply to my email of last night, when I sent them the screen shots.

The recommended retail price on the comparison page is showing 139.99 for both the Aura HD and H2O, but the pre order page is still 179.99 for the H2O
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Old 09-02-2014, 08:54 AM   #167
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What really irks me with their H2O review is they pointed out that the sync activity is now being displayed on the top of the screen, like what is being synced, downloaded, etc. And they make it sound like it's a new feature on the Kobo... My Glo has been doing that since I bought it Jan this year...
I just made the mistake of watching the H2O vs PW2 video. A whole 10 minute video and not ONE comment on how the screens looked compared to each other. I wanted to scream at them. The H2O clearly looked whiter. Were they at the same brightness level? Who knows! They didn't think it necessary to mention that trifling tidbit. Which reader does page turns better? Who knows? Which displays books better? Kind of hard to know considering that they used two different books at different font sizes and different line spacing. Fortunately I know how many books the Amazon book store has compared to Kobo. Seriously guys-nobody gives a shit. This is a hardware comparison.
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Old 09-02-2014, 08:58 AM   #168
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The Aura HD is listed at £129 by Kobo in the UK (it was originally £139).

Further indication that it is just a mix-up in the price comes from various news reports on it's release. The Telegraph along with PocketLint, Stuff & The Gadget Show all state it'll be £140:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technolog...-e-reader.html
Thanks. I'm trying to get info from the horses mouth.
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Old 09-02-2014, 10:23 AM   #169
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Well waterproofing or not I'm not paying £180 for any ereader.
Whoa, pretty sure I wouldn't either.

The price has been corrected, so sorry for the inconvenience. Please let me know if you have any further issues.

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Fingers crossed for £139 then.
It worked!

Again, many apologies for the incorrect price. Thanks everyone for pointing it out, we have fixed it.
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Old 09-02-2014, 11:03 AM   #170
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@sameerh: Are you going to let Sharkus get away with calling you a horse?

I think that at least he should buy you a Timmie's as compensation.... Or should it be a fruit cake?
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... just about all of the interesting details have leaked....

...The product page for the Kobo Aura H2O is now live, and it confirms the leaks.

Thanks to a newly revealed leak....Assuming all of these leaks are correct...

According to the leaked spec sheet....
I have to say, with all that leaking, I'm having doubts about the quality of the waterproofing...

Will wait and see if this model has a special splash screen.
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Old 09-02-2014, 11:24 AM   #172
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Whoa, pretty sure I wouldn't either.

The price has been corrected, so sorry for the inconvenience. Please let me know if you have any further issues.



It worked!

Again, many apologies for the incorrect price. Thanks everyone for pointing it out, we have fixed it.
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Old 09-02-2014, 11:41 AM   #173
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@sameerh: Are you going to let Sharkus get away with calling you a horse?

I think that at least he should buy you a Timmie's as compensation.... Or should it be a fruit cake?
I'll just point to the box of timbits and donuts on the desk behind and to the right of me
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Old 09-02-2014, 01:06 PM   #174
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I'm pre-ordered. The process worked fine. Now there's nothing else to do. Maybe I will get a chance to watch someone else review of the H2O. (Maybe if they loan one to Nate Hoffelder? or someone like that who knows eReaders.)

I made my decision after some thought and decided to get an Aura H2O. My primary interest is in reading and the Kobos make reading easier than did Sony, nook or Kindle and I don't like reading on a general purpose tablet. My iPad Mini is great as a portable computer but even in "white letters on black screen" it hurts my eyes after awhile, and even the smaller Mini version is too heavy for reading. I find it unconsciously drifts down until it ends up in my lap rather than at eye level. After half an hour of that I have a crick in my neck. Even the vivid color wonderfulness of the iPad ends up a distraction.

Give me a big, clear, black and white screen with improved clarity and a front light so I can read in any lighting, my choice of any font I find anywhere, make the page fully configurable to justification, margins, line height and font size and weight, give it a long battery life, fast page turns, text search, text underlining, note taking, a good dictionary, an expandable memory and a reasonably light weight and I'm good. Now is that asking too much?

Improved durability? Yeah okay. Moisture and dust proof is nice, and a reliable bookstore to feed it is nice too, but it must use a standardized format so I can buy my books from the other bookstores--I don't want to be locked down to only one source for my more expensive books and I don't want to buy an eReader that is locked down to a proprietary format because I spend a lot more money on my library than on eReaders and I don't want to risk the investment, not even on a Kindle because nothing lasts forever.

I don't want a color eReader either. I buy picture books printed on paper, big sheets of paper, printed in the millions of colors printing presses can reproduce but handheld devices cannot. A new Kindle is coming soon and probably a new iPad but I don't care. The Aura H2O does what I need and does not do what I don't want, so all there is left now is the wait.
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Whoa, pretty sure I wouldn't either.

The price has been corrected, so sorry for the inconvenience. Please let me know if you have any further issues.

It worked!

Again, many apologies for the incorrect price. Thanks everyone for pointing it out, we have fixed it.
Now that the Poms are sorted out, any chance of finding out when the Aura H2O is coming downunder? Based on previous releases, it will probably be December, but it would be nice to know.
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I can't decide if that's a completely silly way to announce the H2O or the perfect way. Probably both at the same time.

SameerH, RobertJSawyer, are you hiding in the background somewhere?
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I can't decide if that's a completely silly way to announce the H2O or the perfect way. Probably both at the same time.
I would have preferred a somewhat less sexy-fied demonstration - a man talking while women blow kisses in cleavage swimsuits is a bit too booth-babe-y for me. Booth babes are a style of presentation the tech industry is supposed to be moving away from, not towards. How about a water polo team or something?
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I would have preferred a somewhat less sexy-fied demonstration - a man talking while women blow kisses in cleavage swimsuits is a bit too booth-babe-y for me. Booth babes are a style of presentation the tech industry is supposed to be moving away from, not towards. How about a water polo team or something?
I'm not sure the reader is quite rugged enough for water polo.

Sexism aside, I thought it was clever, showy and unique. I think they could have toned it down and still succeeded with it (and probably succeeded even more so with female audiences) but now they will just have to come up with a really nice vid of some Navy Seals using them in the water while they wait for a mission to start.

Or at the very least a happy family surfing with their readers.
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