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Originally Posted by davidfor
The specs I can see, both the Aura ONE and Forma have a 1200mAh battery. So, I'm not sure how this is "technically has a smaller battery". The battery life improvements are possibly the LEDs, but the Forma also has a newer CPU that might be more efficient.
And I'm surprised about the comment on image rendering quality. If they are running the same firmware version, the really should be no difference. I can't think of any comments made about this (which just means someone will point to a thread I participated in, but forgot about).
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Grey Scale dithering on the Aura One in Kepub leaves patterns that are very visible to the naked eye. All the other Kobo models, including the older, low res devices) have a randon dithering that, to me at least, least, is almost completely transparent.
It's usually not much of an issue, you don't use a Kobo to look at colour images, and the Manga's are mostly B&W line art. But having noticed it, it was always a bit of sore tooth. The Touch screen issues were by far the worst though.
I was under the impression that Aura One had a 1300 mAh battery. I can't find a source now, and my mistake if that's not the case. Either way, the Forma is noticeable better. The battery life of the Aura One was *way* less than the smaller battery would account for compared to the previous generation H20. This is something I attributed to the Aura 1 using RGB LED's, (even if comfort light was turned to the lowest colour temp, the Aura One still uses the RGB led's to create white light.). Later generations of Comfort light replaced the RGB leds with orange / Dark Yellow LED's, and the battery life in terms of reading hours almost doubled.
I have no actual facts to back up this idea/impression.