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Old 01-31-2011, 10:38 PM   #34
Taesoo Kwon
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Device: Kobo wifi
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Originally Posted by 3d0g View Post
To me, common sense would be actually knowing the hardware capabilities / limitations before making such bold claims. Seems more like talking out one's ass instead and therefore, no compensation is forthcoming.
Honestly, I think his claim is reasonable. All vizplex panels have the same speed, and software can make big difference. There is an e-reader called starebook and it has a very slow 200mhz cpu and an older generation of vizplex panel which has darker background, but it's page turning speed is about twice as fast as the Kobo wifi e-reader (probably because of page caching, bitmap fonts, and its own proprietary format).
Also Kobo is slower than competing e-readers that have similar hardware specification and software requirements (adobe EPUB).
It seems to me that there are a lot of rooms for improvement in the kobo firmware though I like my kobo wifi.

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