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guti · 11-06-2021, 10:29 AM

I got the Sage this week.

I'm positively impressed with the construction quality but negatively impressed with the weight: paired with the official cover is over 400g.

I'm positively impressed with the screen and the black of the ink: the difference with the Forma is clearly visible (especially by reading comics).

I'm impressed with the speed in some contexts, but fairly disappointed on others:
It is very fast when indexing books, when linking and downloading books.
It is a little faster than the FORMA in the menus.
It is identical to FORMA when you turn the page when reading a book.

I haven't tried the writing features, which I don't know how much I will be able to leverage in the future.
I am not interested in listening to audio books.

I'm really disappointed with the battery:
doing the same thing on both Sage and my 2 years old Forma it appear that on the Sage the percentage of battery drops at a rate that is more than double respect the FORMA.

A technical spec that was not reported by Kobo or on reviews is the amount of RAM used.
Checking the amount of RAM (accessible thanks to NickelMenu -> telnet and checking /proc/meminfo) it result that the Sage uses around ~320MB(!) of RAM compared to the 512MB used by the Forma.
I was convinced that the RAM memory was the same as Elipsa (1GB). I find it hard to believe and I can't explain the reason for this step backwards: I would be really glad if someone could point out to me that I was wrong on this point.

An information for those interested: from the /proc/cpuinfo the SoC used by the Sage result to be an Allwinner sunxi sun8iw15 that has 4 Cortex-A7 32bit core.

I was thrilled with the Forma and hoped this was a worthy successor, and I think that will be the case for many.
But in my case I was hoping for more responsiveness, and the weight and battery where very worse compared to the Forma.

I'm not so sure to keep it and I'm acctually considering to return it under the 30 days policy of Kobo.

11-06-2021, 10:29 AM	#410
guti Member Posts: 11 Karma: 96516 Join Date: May 2014 Device: Sony Reader PRS-T2, Kobo Aura HD, Tolino Vision 4, Kobo Forma	I got the Sage this week. I'm positively impressed with the construction quality but negatively impressed with the weight: paired with the official cover is over 400g. I'm positively impressed with the screen and the black of the ink: the difference with the Forma is clearly visible (especially by reading comics). I'm impressed with the speed in some contexts, but fairly disappointed on others: It is very fast when indexing books, when linking and downloading books. It is a little faster than the FORMA in the menus. It is identical to FORMA when you turn the page when reading a book. I haven't tried the writing features, which I don't know how much I will be able to leverage in the future. I am not interested in listening to audio books. I'm really disappointed with the battery: doing the same thing on both Sage and my 2 years old Forma it appear that on the Sage the percentage of battery drops at a rate that is more than double respect the FORMA. A technical spec that was not reported by Kobo or on reviews is the amount of RAM used. Checking the amount of RAM (accessible thanks to NickelMenu -> telnet and checking /proc/meminfo) it result that the Sage uses around ~320MB(!) of RAM compared to the 512MB used by the Forma. I was convinced that the RAM memory was the same as Elipsa (1GB). I find it hard to believe and I can't explain the reason for this step backwards: I would be really glad if someone could point out to me that I was wrong on this point. An information for those interested: from the /proc/cpuinfo the SoC used by the Sage result to be an Allwinner sunxi sun8iw15 that has 4 Cortex-A7 32bit core. I was thrilled with the Forma and hoped this was a worthy successor, and I think that will be the case for many. But in my case I was hoping for more responsiveness, and the weight and battery where very worse compared to the Forma. I'm not so sure to keep it and I'm acctually considering to return it under the 30 days policy of Kobo.