Sage You and a Sage

[milady133]

I'm still on a Kobo Forma since I wasn't tempted by the upgrades introduced with the Sage, and I was put down by the reports on the Sage's battery life.
But the battery on my Forma seems to be showing the first signs of degrading, so I'm also starting to look around for my options.

I don't mind a color screen, but the Libra is a bit smaller, while I would prefer an 8" screen.

The Elipsa is only a bit newer, and it might be too big for reading in bed. Besides, there's no origami cover, which is fundamental for my reading in bed position.

I've seen in stores a small Samsung tablet with an origami cover, I don't mind the screen, although it certainly is worse than using an ereader. It's a pity TCL isn't interested in this size for their Nxtpaper line, that I wouldn't mind (with the origami cover, of course)

Boox could be another option, but they don't have much in the 8" size, and again, no cover to my liking. The latest PocketBooks run Android, so although the form factor of the Forma is more comfortable, I could consider one.

So yeah, I could be interested in a new Sage, even if it's a color one, but the battery life should be OK, I'm not looking for the initial duration of weeks, but I don't want to have to charge a new one every day or almost, give me at least a week of juice for two hours daily reading sessions.

[nana77]

Originally Posted by milady133

Boox could be another option, but they don't have much in the 8" size, and again, no cover to my liking. The latest PocketBooks run Android, so although the form factor of the Forma is more comfortable, I could consider one.

So yeah, I could be interested in a new Sage, even if it's a color one, but the battery life should be OK, I'm not looking for the initial duration of weeks, but I don't want to have to charge a new one every day or almost, give me at least a week of juice for two hours daily reading sessions.

The PocketBook InkPad 4 doesn't runs Android, it has Carta 1200 technology; maybe the ones within Kaleido 3 (e.g. Pocketbook Inkpad Color 3) uses it instead.
As previously yet mentioned on the forums, the Kaleido 3 has very greyish whites, maybe within frontlight on the darker background would be less pronounceable but quite a noticeable difference from Carta 1200/1300 and others.

[JSWolf]

The one thing I was thinking about was the cost of new Readers. I expect that new Readers will be priced higher because of RAM prices going through the roof.

[Cactus Chef]

There's nothing I feel that the Sage currently lacks, except maybe a bigger battery. But I don't want it adding too much additional heft, either, so, unless they can somehow improve the battery life without drastically increasing the weight (more efficient chipset, maybe?), I'd probably just hang onto my current one for some time.

[John F]

Originally Posted by Cactus Chef

There's nothing I feel that the Sage currently lacks, except maybe a bigger battery. But I don't want it adding too much additional heft, either, so, unless they can somehow improve the battery life without drastically increasing the weight (more efficient chipset, maybe?), I'd probably just hang onto my current one for some time.

I like that my ereader is nice and light, and don't want it to get significantly heavier, but taking a quick look at batteries, doubling a battery from 1200mah (the current Sage size) would only add ~15 grams?

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

The one thing I was thinking about was the cost of new Readers. I expect that new Readers will be priced higher because of RAM prices going through the roof.

E-Readers use LPDDR RAM and those aren’t used in GPUs so I don’t think their prices are going to spike.