esaru ( @esaru@beehaw.org ) 39•3 months agoI can only advice to try out a color E ink eReader in person. Their screen is usually low contrast and dark, to a degree that you need to use it with backlight by default, which kinda defeats the purpose of an E ink eReader. For E ink, monochrome displays are still the way to go, and if you really need color, a device without E ink.
[moved to hexbear] ( @Tempo@lemmy.ml ) 12•3 months agoI used a Hisense A5 Pro CC phone for a few months as my daily driver. For books, colour eink is okay at best but yeah, contrast sucks. It pretty much always will with the extra layers of filtering needed for each colour.
Outside of static pages of text and images, you pretty much need to drop colour depth to pretty garish levels for a decently responsive user experience. It’s a nice idea but really isn’t very good in practice.
ColeSloth ( @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•3 months agoThe black e ink version is 300ppi. The color ones are 150ppi, so half.
millie ( @millie@beehaw.org ) English35•3 months agoOnly. Cool ad. 🙄
Syn_Attck ( @Syn_Attck@lemmy.today ) 9•3 months agoInteresting thumbnail strategy on this ad. It’s hard to see it as just a seat. My mind keeps trying to make it into a human palm, so I’m seeing a tiny Polly Pocket tablet and stylus.
EndHD ( @EndHD@lemm.ee ) 6•3 months agoGood catch. I got excited seeing this, but I can’t say I’m 250 USD excited. Maybe if I had more time to read.
sin_free_for_00_days ( @sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ) 33•3 months agoI wish they wouldn’t advertise days of battery life, when their “day” is 1/2 an hour. Just say how many hours the battery will run. The math for how long it’ll run for my use is not rocket science. It’s good to see color E Ink in a reasonable price range. I think I’ll wait for the size to increase while staying affordable.
huginn ( @huginn@feddit.it ) 2•3 months agoWhat do you mean their day is half an hour?
My e-reader battery barely flutters after several hours of reading.
ECB ( @ECB@feddit.de ) 16•3 months agoWhen they say something like “60 days battery life” what they mean is using the device for half an hour everyday for 60 days.
OP is arguing that it would make more sense to just say the continuous use battery life, which in the above example would be 30 hours (60 × 0.5)
IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) 2•3 months agoThat’s true, but I get easily more than that on my current kobo, which has a similar advertised battery life. I can get easily 5-6 days of reading 8h a day on it.
teawrecks ( @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz ) 15•3 months agoWe’re looking at 40 days based on 30 minutes of daily reading at 30% brightness, and with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned off. Dropping the brightness down to 10% nets an increase to 53 total days of runtime.
So as long as you don’t use it, the battery will last a long time!
lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) 4•3 months agoWhy can’t they just use Android? I have books on all kinds of book stores.
targetx ( @targetx@programming.dev ) 16•3 months agoUsing Calibre you could probably glue that together. I wouldn’t want Android on an ereader personally.
juliebean ( @juliebean@lemm.ee ) 3•3 months agosome ereaders do use android, my old onyx did, but honestly i much prefer the dedicated solution kobo has. they could use android, but if they’ve got the resources to make their own os targeting their actual use case instead of cramming a mobile phone os in there, why wouldn’t they? even their os has too much cruft for my taste, but it is a lot less than an android ereader.
MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) 2•3 months agoOnyx and Kobo do. But their battery life is way inferior to PocketBook, which uses naked Linux.
hamsterkill ( @hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•3 months agoI’m not aware of any Kobo using Android.
IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) 2•3 months agoAll kobos use a custom OS built on Android…8 (lol). Its not recognizable as Android, but it is the base.
hamsterkill ( @hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•3 months agoI’m dubious Android even serves as a base for Kobo’s OS. I’ve seen no evidence to support that claim.
EDIT: if you are referring to Tolinos, they are not simple rebrands of Kobos.
IrritableOcelot ( @IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ) 1•2 months agoNo, I forget where exactly it was, but at some point last year I was deep in Rakuten’s documentation and it referenced that the Clara HD’s OS is based on a modified Android 8 kernel.
MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) 1•3 months agoSince Kobo rebrands as Tolino too and one i had years ago was clearly some sort of Android, i think they are still? Maybe more locked down and under the hood?
hamsterkill ( @hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org ) 3•3 months agoTolinos use different processors precisely because they run Android, while Kobos do not.
MonkderDritte ( @MonkderDritte@feddit.de ) 1•3 months agoRight, now i remember reading about that. Which is why i got an Onyx then. Thanks!