koboElipsa vs XPPEN

annalisax · Yesterday, 06:18 AM

Good morning everyone.

I have a 10-11 year old ONYXM96ml, the battery is rightly decreasing in performance: 1 week of battery life which for me is little, when new it lasted 4-5 weeks
It is used only for black and white reading, for 1to 2hours a day ..every day.
I would like to purchase a 10.3" large format reader, with a front light, with a long battery life for the same use.
After a long search, my choice focused on two models: Kobo Elipsa2E or XPPen Magic Note Pad.
Other models were discarded for various reasons/defects/shortcomings.
Considering that I don't care about taking notes or connecting to stores/apps, I'm asking the experts which of the two would be better for me in terms of battery life?
Thanks everyone.

DNSB · Yesterday, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by annalisax

After a long search, my choice focused on two models: Kobo Elipsa2E or XPPen Magic Note Pad.
Other models were discarded for various reasons/defects/shortcomings.
Considering that I don't care about taking notes or connecting to stores/apps, I'm asking the experts which of the two would be better for me in terms of battery life?
Thanks everyone.

The Elipsa 2E will win on battery life. The XPPen is an Android device and does not last as long as the Elipsa 2E for reading especially if using colour which must use the backlight.

The Elipsa 2E has an eInk display with a 16 level grey scale 1404x1872 pixel display. The XPPen Magic Note Pad has a NXTPaper display 1200x1920 which is a modified transmissive backlit LCD panel. Either a NXPaper 3.0 or 4.0 display. The front layer is heavily nano-etched (whatever that really means) to give a matte display. There is a weird blue light reduction which, from a couple of articles I saw, shifts the blue backlight from 415-455nm to 457-462.5nm(*) though TCL's documentation mentions multi-layer filtration. The display can run in a low power mode by turning off the backlight which gives an eInk-like greyscale display useful in bright lighting while enabling the backlight allows colour at the expense of power consumption. The only NXTPaper device I've seen automatically turned on the backlight in dim lighting.

* This struck me as a bit odd since in the numbers I've seen, blue covers 450–485nm while violet is from 380–450. I've attached one of TCL's publications just in case any one wants to read it.

Gormagon · Yesterday, 09:30 PM

The TCL NXTPAPER devices I have offer a "super power saving mode" in the battery settings. This will give for example approx 54 hours of battery life whereas the regular mode offers approx 31 hours, the colour paper mode also 31 hours and the ink paper mode the same, all with 85% battery.

You can allow 4 custom apps in the "super power saving mode". If you select an reading app that has the option to set it's own screen off time then the screen won't turn of after a few seconds of inaction. I really haven't tested if the approx. time is correct and I disabled a lot of Android apps anyway...but it seems to me that the usuable time in this special mode is indeed longer. You can also select only a few of the usual Android settings in this mode. I don't know if XPPen offers the same.
But the TCL NXTPAPER 11 Plus is still on sale in Amazon (on .de for 230 Euro with pen and flipcase and 200 Euro without them), so I would recommend that one.

Quoth · Today, 06:28 AM

The TCL Nxtpaper 14 is far better for PDFs than the NxtPaper 11, which is better than the Elipsa (I've had/have all three).
The TCL Nxtpaper 11 & 14 can have comparable battery life to an eink, due to enormous batteries.

The Nxtpaper 40, 50, 11 & 14 I have are the most impressive screen etching/design for reducing glare (almost none) and reflections (none). The Nxtpaper 11 plus is different.

The 6" to 8" eink are far better for reading novels. The Sage is maligned for battery life, but is only about 1 hr less reading time than some 6" models. I read all novels that have no large colour illustrations on the 8″ Sage eink and most PDFs and all illustrated/graphic novels on the Nxtpaper 14.

The Nxtpaper 14 was recently reduced on Amazon DE. The advantage of the 11 is the SD card slot.

Transreflective LCD is nearly as bad, or sometimes worse, than colour eink. It's also unusable without backlight except in strong sunlight.

Yesterday, 06:18 AM	#1
annalisax Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2025 Device: OnyxM96ML	koboElipsa vs XPPEN Good morning everyone. I have a 10-11 year old ONYXM96ml, the battery is rightly decreasing in performance: 1 week of battery life which for me is little, when new it lasted 4-5 weeks It is used only for black and white reading, for 1to 2hours a day ..every day. I would like to purchase a 10.3" large format reader, with a front light, with a long battery life for the same use. After a long search, my choice focused on two models: Kobo Elipsa2E or XPPen Magic Note Pad. Other models were discarded for various reasons/defects/shortcomings. Considering that I don't care about taking notes or connecting to stores/apps, I'm asking the experts which of the two would be better for me in terms of battery life? Thanks everyone.

Yesterday, 09:30 PM	#3
Gormagon monstrous mythical beast Posts: 62 Karma: 4000000 Join Date: May 2023 Device: Tab Ultra C, Meebook P78 Pro, Viwoods AIPaper Reader, various NXTPAPER	The TCL NXTPAPER devices I have offer a "super power saving mode" in the battery settings. This will give for example approx 54 hours of battery life whereas the regular mode offers approx 31 hours, the colour paper mode also 31 hours and the ink paper mode the same, all with 85% battery. You can allow 4 custom apps in the "super power saving mode". If you select an reading app that has the option to set it's own screen off time then the screen won't turn of after a few seconds of inaction. I really haven't tested if the approx. time is correct and I disabled a lot of Android apps anyway...but it seems to me that the usuable time in this special mode is indeed longer. You can also select only a few of the usual Android settings in this mode. I don't know if XPPen offers the same. But the TCL NXTPAPER 11 Plus is still on sale in Amazon (on .de for 230 Euro with pen and flipcase and 200 Euro without them), so I would recommend that one.

Today, 06:28 AM	#4
Quoth Still reading Posts: 15,173 Karma: 111120239 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	The TCL Nxtpaper 14 is far better for PDFs than the NxtPaper 11, which is better than the Elipsa (I've had/have all three). The TCL Nxtpaper 11 & 14 can have comparable battery life to an eink, due to enormous batteries. The Nxtpaper 40, 50, 11 & 14 I have are the most impressive screen etching/design for reducing glare (almost none) and reflections (none). The Nxtpaper 11 plus is different. The 6" to 8" eink are far better for reading novels. The Sage is maligned for battery life, but is only about 1 hr less reading time than some 6" models. I read all novels that have no large colour illustrations on the 8″ Sage eink and most PDFs and all illustrated/graphic novels on the Nxtpaper 14. The Nxtpaper 14 was recently reduced on Amazon DE. The advantage of the 11 is the SD card slot. Transreflective LCD is nearly as bad, or sometimes worse, than colour eink. It's also unusable without backlight except in strong sunlight.

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