How to get clues about upcoming Kobo ereaders?

[rantanplan]

Originally Posted by Apollyon202

"We have some amazing projects that should be ready to share with you in the second half of the year – developments that will fundamentally change how we read and write on our devices. We're going to keep pushing at the edges of what reading can be.".

I think this is more about the upcoming 5.x firmware instead of new hardware.

[issybird]

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[Yapyap]

Originally Posted by Apollyon202

“We have some amazing projects that should be ready to share with you in the second half of the year – developments that will fundamentally change how we read and write on our devices. We’re going to keep pushing at the edges of what reading can be.”

I read that as well (on that Reddit post - no such email received) and it sounds like either the most annoying sort of buzzword-marketing-speech or something that sounds terrifying, LOL.

I mean .. what does “pushing at the edges of what reading can be” or “fundamentally change how we read” even mean.

My best scenario guess is that they’re planning to introduce some features modern Kindles seem to have re: AI recaps or summaries or an easy way to get an overview of who the characters are etc - I’m not particularly keen to have AI pushed into everything, but that’s at least a somewhat legitimate use for it and may be helpful to people.

Definitely sounds more like new software/firmware features to me than “we’re going to release a successor to Kobo Sage, with a lovely Carta 1300 screen and page turn buttons and a bigger battery” though...

[Apollyon202]

Originally Posted by Yapyap

I read that as well (on that Reddit post - no such email received) and it sounds like either the most annoying sort of buzzword-marketing-speech or something that sounds terrifying, LOL.

I mean .. what does “pushing at the edges of what reading can be” or “fundamentally change how we read” even mean.

My best scenario guess is that they’re planning to introduce some features modern Kindles seem to have re: AI recaps or summaries or an easy way to get an overview of who the characters are etc - I’m not particularly keen to have AI pushed into everything, but that’s at least a somewhat legitimate use for it and may be helpful to people.

Definitely sounds more like new software/firmware features to me than “we’re going to release a successor to Kobo Sage, with a lovely Carta 1300 screen and page turn buttons and a bigger battery” though...

Yeah I agree. Marketing bs at its finest. Instead, what would be really useful is like expanding the default reading program's features without adding any bloatware (including "AI"), so people wouldn't have to bother with kobopatches and koreader anymore.