Thread: Kobo Aura One for pdf's
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Old 12-07-2016, 10:42 PM   #5
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I don't have first-hand experience with N96 but I do have experience with Android 4.4 (KK) on tablets with similar SOCs like HiSense Sero 8. N96's SOC is way underpowered for Android. Sero 8 has twice the system RAM and more than twice the CPU power and it's still sluggish with PDFs (using Perfect Viewer's PDF plugin, muPDF, and ezPDF Reader).

Aura ONE isn't significantly more powerful than N96 but the software stack runs on the bare metal, not interpreted byte-code. That's a big win for performance despite the flaws in Kobo's software.
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