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Originally Posted by Andrew Ashling
Rakuten, the company that owns Kobo now owns Tolino as well. The hardware is identical, only the software (a.k.a. the firmware) differs.
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The Tolino Page 2 and the Kobo Aura Edition 2 are different in a couple fairly minor details. The Page 2 has 8 GBs of storage and 512 MBs of RAM, the Aura 2 has 4 GBs of storage and I don't know how much RAM. Also the Page 2 has its switch at the bottom (like a Clara) instead of on the back like the older style Kobos. Otherwise the two are pretty much the same, hardware-wise. It's these changes to the low-end Tolino (a subsidiary of Kobo) that makes me wonder if Kobo plans to update the low-end Aura 2 to an "Aura 3," patterned after the Page 2. And, if they do this, will the "Walmart special edition" Aura 2 remain as an even lower-end Kobo?