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To me, it's a very mixed bag. Higher resolution is fine, although what I need from e ink is higher contrast, which trumps resolution every day (it's not like with LCD where you can see the pixel structure anyway). I wouldn't be surprised if the voyage had worse contrast because of the flush screen. The aura HD (flushed) had worse contrast than the PW, and the new h2o (not flushed) has better contrast than either, according to Nate's review. Could be many things, of course, but I suspect the flush screen. You have to put the LEDs somewhere between the e ink screen and the glass and the farther out you move the glass the bigger you make the gap. Micro edged gorilla glass? To me all this is just trying to compensate for messing up the e ink screen in the first place by adding a light and touch layer. We'll see how well it works.
300dpi? I would've preferred same resolution in a bigger screen. The fancy buttons? I would've preferred a bigger screen. Magnesium laced back? I would've preferred a bigger screen. Light sensor? I would've preferred a bigger screen. Anything that is not better contrast? I would've preferred a bigger screen.
I guess I would've preferred h2o hardware with kindle software, provided it is still hackable and they haven't made it impossible to adjust font sizes and margins etc.
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