Thread: A love letter to my H2O
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Old 05-01-2015, 02:24 AM   #46
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Varming View Post
Regarding the LEDs - it's not only the LEDs showing (I could live with that) but between the LEDs it shows on the screen as an yellowish tint or like small yellow rainbows between the LEDs, the light isn't uniform at all at the bottom of the screen and it's quite distracting when reading. From what I've read in here the light should be the same color all over the screen and that is also what I would have expected from a $200 device (the price in Europe). If this is normal for Kobo I really should have bought the Kindle Voyager instead which is only $11 more expensive.

I don't understand the argument that the LEDs need to be visible to light the screen - as far as I know there are also LEDs at the top of the screen and those I can't see at all.
The issue is really the angle of the photo. At that angle, you will see the LEDs on all front-lit e-ink devices. When looking from a more normal reading position, you will not see these.

Looking at my Aura H2O and GloHD in the reading position and the light turned all the way up, I can see a slight variation in light across the bottom centimetre of the screen. But, it's not something I noticed until I compared it to my other Kobo ereaders. On the Glo it is noticeable, but the Aura H2O and GloHD it isn't.

And you can't see any LEDs at the top of the screen because there are none there. I think all of the Kobo ereaders have the LEDs at the bottom.
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