Rakuten Kobo is launching its first coloration e-readers, the Kobo Libra Color and the Kobo Clara Color. Each use E Ink’s newest Kaleido coloration display know-how, which has refined, pastel-like hues and drops from a 300ppi grayscale decision to 150ppi while you view content material in coloration.
I’ll be testing each e-readers quickly, however to this point, they appear to be small upgrades to Kobo’s present e-readers. That’s not a nasty factor, although! The seven-inch Kobo Libra 2 is my favourite e-reader exterior of Amazon’s ecosystem, providing the Kindle Paperwhite’s IPX8 waterproof design however with extras like bodily page-turning buttons, no lockscreen advertisements, and extra storage.
The $219.99 Kobo Libra Color retains all of these options however can also be now appropriate with the Kobo Stylus 2, similar to the Kobo Elipsa 2E. Nonetheless, it’s $30 dearer than the Kobo Libra 2, and also you’ll have to purchase the stylus individually for $69.99.
The $149.99 Kobo Clara Color is barely extra distinct from its closest sibling, the $139.99 Kobo Clara 2E. It provides the identical six-inch show and IPX8 waterproof design however now comes with 16GB of storage, in addition to an improved processor. I hope so; the Kobo Clara 2E’s sluggish efficiency was one among my chief complaints.
Kobo additionally launched an upgraded black-and-white Kobo Clara BW, with the identical storage and processor upgrades, for $129.99.
The entire units can be found to preorder beginning right now and can ship on April thirtieth.