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Originally Posted by stewacide
I doubt they're in a rush to refresh the One since there's nothing from the Amazon side that competes with / tops it.
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Whilst I do agree with you about this, I feel that Amazon may have done enough with the new 7" Kindle Oasis to stop many Kindle waverers stepping off the "Path of Righteousness" toward Kobo. This may be disappointing for Kobo's future income prospects. I'd love to be wrong about this
Personally, I'm a bit disappointed there's been no new flagship Kobo this year. I love my KA1 but I'd still like to have had the buzz of a shiny new improved device. I know the Kobo Aura2 and H2O2 are new-ish devices and there's nothing wrong with them, but I didn't see anything to get particularly excited about.
One thing I'd like to see Kobo do to improve their customisability (
is that a word?) features is to tidy up and fully bring out into the light some of their "hidden" features , e.g.
- Night mode screen colour inversion
- Full screen book reading (no header, footer)
- Screenshot
- Font bolding for all fonts, not just the built-in ones
All of the above are already possible, for all recent Kobo models, via patch or simple manual editing of the .conf file, so why couldn't they become "official" with relative ease?