Kobo Vox Announced - Ships Oct. 28

[danibbler]

This is really great news for us who are not living in the US and/or who do not want to wait until sometime in Nov. for a 7" tablet. Frankly, also great for those of us who don't want to be locked in to the Amazon ecosystem.

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20111019/kobo-vox-111019/

I'm placing my order in the next few hours.

 

[Berlin]

Looking forward to the Kobo Vox reviews.

Great price point.

 

[Cobster]

I love reading with e-ink technology, reading from an LCD for too long is a bit hard on the eyes.
Hope they come up with colour e-ink, until then....

 

[nofrill]

Apparently the Kobo has a single core 800 MHz processor (I presume it must be Cortex A8 class), while the Kindle Fire has a dual core OMAP4 at 1+ GHz. No matter how the kobo is priced, there is no match for the firepower!!

Archos was actually the first to announce their Gen9 Android tablet with the dual core OMAP4 (first used in BB Playbook), at a "bargain" price of around 250-300 bucks. If the Kindle Fire is really going to sell for $199.99, that would completely demolish all their Android competitors!!

 

[danibbler]

I think that for its stated purpose of being an e-reader first the speed/power of the CPU is not going to make much difference. Will have to see what the reviews say.

And, CPU speed is a non-factor when us Canadians cannot get our hands on a Kindle Fire anyways.

Apparently the Kobo has a single core 800 MHz processor (I presume it must be Cortex A8 class), while the Kindle Fire has a dual core OMAP4 at 1+ GHz. No matter how the kobo is priced, there is no match for the firepower!!

Archos was actually the first to announce their Gen9 Android tablet with the dual core OMAP4 (first used in BB Playbook), at a "bargain" price of around 250-300 bucks. If the Kindle Fire is really going to sell for $199.99, that would completely demolish all their Android competitors!!

 

[nofrill]

I think that for its stated purpose of being an e-reader first the speed/power of the CPU is not going to make much difference. Will have to see what the reviews say.

And, CPU speed is a non-factor when us Canadians cannot get our hands on a Kindle Fire anyways.

I know what you mean, but if your e-reader is as powerful as a full-blown tablet, at a bargain price as low as the average lower-spec e-readers, what would stop anyone from buying it?

Maybe the biggest thing that matters in an e-reader is battery life - maybe customers want more than the 5 to 6 hours life of the average 7 inch tablets. I guess in that case, only the e-ink readers really out-perform TFT screen tablets ( but I really hate surfing the web on those e-ink readers because the constant "flicker" as the webpages refresh, plus no video function)

 

[nottyboi]

great to see tablets starting to get close to where they should be....