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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Can anyone suggest a retailer in the UK that might have a One on display? I've tried John Lewis and a couple of PC Worlds.
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To answer my own question, in case anyone else is interested, the answer is WH Smiths, if you are lucky or prepared to do a lot of work.
I went to the Reading WH Smiths, and it is as though someone got a bunch of devices in about two years ago, unboxed them and fixed them to a display stand, then walked away and completely forgot about them.
The devices on display were the H2O (original, not edition 2), Aura edition 2 and Aura One, so nothing since late 2016. They didn't seem to have any of them actually as boxes for sale, I think the boxes were Touch and Glo.
None of the devices had ever been connected to the network and setup, so they were just sitting at the initial setup screen, useless to actual demo functionality.
I set up the One on a tethered hotspot and had a good play on it.
Ultimately as soon as I got to use it, I knew it was the one I wanted, the flush screen alone made it worth it for be, getting dust in the gap between the screen and the bevels bugs the hell out of me.
John Lewis seems to have discontinued all Kobo models except the Clara, and the standard PC World setup is also just to have a Clara, so actually getting hand-on with other models has been quite difficult.
By comparison, buying the One was very easy, as Argos stock all the models.