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Originally Posted by meeera
Today in amusing H2O review comments:
http://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/ereaders/kobo-aura-h20
"However, when I set all three e-readers' lights to 50 percent, the Kobo was so bright that it was distracting in a brightly lit room. In that setting, the Kindle offered the best reading experience."
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Great "review". Not.
There are only two things I believe. Speed and accuracy.
I know from more serious test or reviews that the latest non Kobo ereaders are faster (on many aspects) when they are compared side-by-side. This doesn't mean the Kobo isn't fast (or smooth) enough for daily use. It probably is.
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but I found myself typing more errors on the Kobo than on the Kindle Paperwhite. I also found the Kindle able to better keep up with my fingers.
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The IR was known to be less accurate on Kobo devices and a bit slow to 'keep up'. I guess that is not much different for the H2O. Or maybe the "reviewer" isn't used typing on e-ink devices.
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Turning pages was responsive and nearly instantaneous, thanks to the 1-GHz CPU, although the Kindle Paperwhite was even faster.
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Same answer here. Kobos are not the fastest around but probably fast (or smooth) enough for daily use.
With some hindsight, maybe it wasn't such a good decision from Kobo to make no changes to other hardware components such as a faster processor to make up (some of) the known differences in overall device speeds between exisiting Kobo ereaders and non Kobo devices.
Kobo took the gamble that it was still fast enough for daily use but no longer on par with other ereaders.
This could be a recurring subject in (and hopefully better) reviews.