Thread: New, low-end Kobo possible?
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Old 11-09-2019, 06:54 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Andrew Ashling View Post
Rakuten, the company that owns Kobo now owns Tolino as well. The hardware is identical, only the software (a.k.a. the firmware) differs.
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?
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