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Originally Posted by MGlitch
I’m sorry but this isn’t true. There was a significant lag for Nook to adopt the 300dpi screen which was old hat by the time they did in (I think) the glowlight plus. It was the Nook with the white textured bezel. Both Amazon and Kobo has at least one if not two lines of readers out with 300dpi by this time. BN was also very late to add water resistance (I won’t say water proof because even the Kobo H2O was never really water proof). They were late to add the orange LEDS (I’m not going to get into who does it better now since honestly it’s going to be subjective). The glowlight plus had that awful capacitive touch home button which many people complained about and few if any praised. ...
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The only 300 dpi eReader out in 2014 was the Kindle Voyage, top of the line, components that are still not matched (and not in the same price range as a PW, Glowlight Plus or Kobo Glo HD or others mentioned here). Other than that, Nooks did not "significantly lag" behind others. The Paperwhite 3 came out June 30th, 2015 — the Nook Glowlight came out in October of that year (and, unlike the PW or Voyage, it was waterproof and had a nicer screen than the PW3). The first 300 dpi Kobo was the Kobo Glo HD, which came out May, 2015. I think the first PocketBook 300 dpi reader came out in 2016. The Tolino Shine 2 HD and Vision 3 HD (also waterproof) came out in, October 2015 — about a week later than the Nook Glowlight Plus. E-Carta (4th generation, 300 dpi) wasn't announced until the end of 2013, Voyage used it first, for a premium, in 2014. Nobody else used it until 2015, including B&N for their Nook.
The first waterproof Kindle came out in Oct, 2017 (significant lag) and the first "warm light" Kindle came out in May, 2019 (also a significant lag). And these were like the Voyage, expensive readers. Meanwhile the first "warm light Nook came out in November 2017. Kobo's H2O came out in October, 2014 (a big jump over everyone else, like the 300 dpi screen jump by the Voyage). But there's still no lower-end, water resistant Kobo. And the water resistant PW4 just came out in March, 2019, nearly a four year lag behind the Nook Glowlight Plus.
But if you want to talk about feature lag... compare the PocketBook HD3 to all others. It's water resistant, has a 300 dpi (warm light) screen. Has page turn buttons (the touch screen can be disabled). Can borrow or buy directly from any ePub store or library (via on-device Adobe ADE and the ability to download books from ASCM files or by using it's built-in browser — this includes Kobo, Google Books and any bookstore besides Nook). Can play MP3s, can read books to you (TTS). Has a dual-core CPU, 16 GBs of storage standard. Has games (Klondike, Chess, Sudku), can receive books via Send to PocketBook, supports DropBox integration, and includes 5 GBs of cloud storage on PocketBook's website (this enables syncing across devices). And it weighs ten grams less than Kobo Clara or Tolino Shine 3.
My point? All eReaders improve when the underlying technology improves. One company emphasizes one feature over another, while another company will do the opposite. Nook development does not "significantly lag" when compared to the others (I think they have the best "warm light" screens made) and page turn buttons on both sides of the bezel. Nook just comes out with fewer devices. But when their new device
does get released it incorporates the newest component developments.