The lack of a warm light doesn’t bother me. There are no obvious shadowy areas or bright spots so it gets the seal of approval from me, and I’m pretty picky about frontlights. If I crank the light it does have a bit of a gradient from left to right, with the left side being slightly yellower, but it’s pretty subtle and isn’t something I notice at lower levels. It does have Dark Mode to invert the colors so there’s the option to use that and a lower frontlight level at night.įrontlights can vary a lot from one unit to the next, but the frontlight uniformity is quite good on my Elipsa. The Kobo Elipsa has a frontlight but it lacks the ability to change the color temperature like Kobo’s other ereaders, a notable drawback for some. Basically, compared to my Onyx Note2 with a Mobius screen, the contrast does look a little better, but compared to the Remarkable 2 it looks worse (because the RE2 doesn’t have as many layers over the screen with no frontlight). I already posted a rant about that so I won’t rehash that here. Kobo claims the Elipsa uses a new Carta 1200 screen with improved contrast. To me these large E Ink screens provide a much nicer reading experience than LCD screens, and the page doesn’t feel as cramped as smaller 6-inch ereaders. I’ve been saying for years that large E Ink screens are vastly underrated, and the 10.3-inch size hits the sweet spot. ![]() The stylus has a textured coating, with dedicated buttons for erasing and highlighting, and performance feels on par with similar e-Note devices. ![]() Kobo doesn’t specify what type of touchscreen it uses but apparently it uses Microsoft Pen Protocol instead of Wacom like most other e-Notes. You can connect a keyboard but the Note app doesn’t support keyboards so it can only be used for a couple basic tasks like typing searches and naming notes. So far Bluetooth is just a beta feature and isn’t really useful for anything because the device doesn’t support audio. The upgraded processor and increased RAM does help the device feel a bit zippier than other Kobos, and battery life is still solid. It supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and it has a touchscreen for notes and drawings, along with a regular capacitive touchscreen for finger touch. The Kobo Elipsa comes with 32GB of storage, 1GB of RAM, and it’s the first Kobo to come with an upgraded quad-core 1.8GHz CPU and a USB-C port. At this point it still feels like it’s a kind of a work in progress on the software side, but they’re off to a good start. If Kobo continues to develop the writing and PDF features, and if they add more exporting options, then they’d have a great device. The Onyx Note Air or Note3 is going to be a better choice for people that need more advanced software features with the ability to install apps, and the Remarkable 2 is better as a pure note-taking device, but the Kobo Elipsa is the better ebook reader, and in some respects I like the simplicity of it compared to Onyx’s ereaders. However, the note-taking functions are more basic compared to the Remarkable and Onyx Note models, but the overall writing experience feels good. The screen looks great, the software is quick and responsive, the frontlight is adequate, and Kobo’s ebook app is simply better than what comes on most other devices. ![]()
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