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Originally Posted by RowdyRuff
I'm thinking that CK refers to 'Colour-Kaleido', which to me suggests that Kobo maybe developing other (larger) readers with a different colour screen technology..
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What other colour screen technology? Triton is too dark, though better colour saturation. It's a 3 stripe layout.
Kaleido has pastel shades to be not as terribly dark and a 2 by 2 layout, so resolution is half in both directions.
Qualcomm's Mirasol seems dead.
The C Y M subtractive cell ACEP is x10 too slow for an ereader.
The only other colour things are CRTs, Plasma, VFD (low resolution in every sense) OLED (really electroluminescent), real LEDs (x20 or more cost), LCD (mono with a colour filter) and QLED (LCD with red and green quantum dots, blue back light and no colour filter), DLP (projection) and laser with drum/mirrors like a copier turned into a superhero.
Existing model skus I've found:
N204-KBO-B Aura HD
N613-KBO-B Glo
N514-KU-BK-K-EP Aura
N236-KU-BK-K-EP Aura Edition 2 (Or is this a 2nd H2O?)
N250-KU-BK-K-EP Aura H20 Black (Original)
N437-KU-BK-K-EP Glo HD
N782-KU-BK-K-EP Forma
N306-KU-BK-K-EP Nia Black
N506-KU-OB-K-EP Clara 2E Deep Ocean Blue
N249-KU-BK-K-EP Clara HD Black
N418-KU-BK-K-EP Libra 2 Black
N418-KU-WH-K-EP Libra 2 White
N778-KU-BK-K-EP Sage Black (Original?)
N604-KU-BK-K-BU Elipsa
N605-KU-BK-K-BU Elipsa 2E
So if CK is Color Kaleido, what is EP, BU and B?
Note the Sage N778-KU-BK-K-EP is is similar to the Elipsa models using the same digitiser. The N418-KU-xx-K-EP Libra 2* models seem to have a digitiser (Sketch works with pen, but no noteboooks). The EP might be for
Electro
phoretic Display, which is what all the eink panels are (not 100% sure about (AECP). But the Elispa models end in BU and some in B.
[* The two letter code at xx so far is case/bezel colour]
I don't have SKUs for
N873 Libra H20
N867 Aura H2O Edition 2 (There are two versions).
N905 Touch (
Oldest with FW support).
N905B Touch
N905C Touch
N709 Aura ONE
N587 Touch 2.0
N705 Mini
N416 Original
N647 Wireless
N47B Wireless
N778K Second version of Sage.
The digits after the initial N seem mostly random. Elipsa N604 and Elipsa 2 is N605, but the two Libra models are N873 (original) and N418 (version 2).
Six models have Aura in the name.
Four models have H2O in the name.
There is an original Aura H2O (N250 2014), then two later revised H2O both called edition 2 and different FW. One is N876 (2017). Then the original Libra (N873 2019) was actually the Libra H2O. The Libra 2 (N418) was released in 2021.
The ancient Kobo Wireless mysteriously is both an N647 and an N47B, so far as I can tell.
Is there any logic to Kobo names or part numbers? I think CK could mean anything. It could be Color Kaleido (which is superfluous as the only currently nearly viable colour eink is Kaleido and Kaleido screens are all colour).
I think 7″ and 6″ eink color are even more pointless than the larger ones, and color eink seems nearly pointless at any size. I'd hate to see Kobo make such a mistake.
See
https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kobo
Current and old FW
https://pgaskin.net/KoboStuff/kobofirmware.html
Indentification
https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/artic...or-Kobo-tablet
Wikipedia Kobo List with specs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobo_eReader
We'll know what they are when they are on sale
