Kobo has cracked the secret of touch-screen e-ink displays
Kobo has added a touch screen to its popular e-reader, and the result makes the Kindle look like a throwback to the days of the Psion Organizer.
The Kobo eReader Touch Edition gets around the main problem of touch-enabled e-ink screens — they’re dark and have low contrast — by using infrared sensors to work out where your fingers are. Thus, you get a bright six-inch display along with swipe-to-turn pages, page scrubbing (like scrubbing a video), an on-screen keyboard, long press to highlight passages and words and even double-tap to zoom a PDF.
The battery still lasts for two weeks, and the Touch reader has an SD card slot for expanding storage. It also weighs just 200 grams, less than the Wi-Fi Kindle’s 240 grams, likely thanks to the lack of an ugly hardware keyboard.
All in all, the new Kobo eReader Touch Edition looks sweet, and ties in with Kobo’s free apps for pretty much every phone and tablet out there. It is also a bargain, at $130, and will work with all those EPUB files you already have on your computer.
The Rumours are True! Kobo Launches the The Kobo eReader Touch Edition Today [Kobo blog]
Kobo eReader Touch Edition product page [Kobo]
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