Hey folks,
Sorry for the late reply here, the forum stopped emailing me about responses for some reason—let me catch up:
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One area I wish you had gone into more detail is the font rendering.
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Sure, let's dig in.
From your comment I get the sense that your Kobo (and maybe Kindle?) experience is from the pre-300dpi screens, so the first thing I'll say is that individual letterform rendering improved tremendously with that leap. Whether it's a Paperwhite 3 or the Aura One, we're at the point where type is rendered with enough precision and evenness that any concerns on that front are a thing of the past.
I agree with you that Bookerly is a far more handsome font than most of Kobo's defaults, and frankly I even love Caecilia, despite the widespread dislike of slab serifs that I've noticed. Regardless of type taste though, what remains true is that I didn't encounter any examples of uneven type rendering on the Aura One, either with default fonts or ones I'd added. Hopefully the close-up in the screen section does a decent job of illustrating how good text looks on the Aura One.
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Are you getting the Kobo cover then? It sounds like it would make the review more like-for-like.
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No, but even if I did, the Kobo cover is a standard book-style cover, like the Oasis one, which doesn't match the Voyage Origami cover's unique flip-up advantages. The Aura One cover allows it to be propped up, but only in certain orientations. What I love about the Voyage's cover is specifically how flexible it is in how you can prop it up, regardless of whether you're reading lying down, sitting, etc.
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But the real killer for me was the sluggish touch screen response on the Glo, and -- unless that has been fixed on Aura One -- I would have interest zero in the device (or any Kobo).
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Touchscreen response on the Aura One is the best I've seen for Kobo devices. A noticeable step up from pre-H2O devices. That being said, it's still not as quick as modern Kindles, which is unfortunate. It doesn't actually bother me in use, but as soon as I switch from one to the other I do notice it.
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Nice to see a closeup of the rendering down to the individual pixel on the screen. At an angle too with such a limited depth of focus - great news since some words, or rather parts of them, are actually in focus. I have to wonder though why they still look fuzzy. Is that a compression artifact? Would be nice if you could get closer for a real closeup at 1:1 comparing a Voyage/Oasis screen with the KA1. (assuming your lens/camera allows a macro shot).
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Sure, I'll break out the macro lens and do a 1:1 shot of the Aura One, H2O, Voyage, and Oasis for you later today.