![]() ![]() It was still functional after 45 minutes of submersion. Taking the Edition 2 to a community swimming pool, I found this rating to be accurate. This means that the e-reader isn’t rated for dust incursion, but it can remain submerged in two meters of water for up to one hour. I found the Edition 2 still easy to hold, and its weight is almost unnoticeable while carrying it in my backpack.Īs its name implies, the Aura H2O Edition 2 is waterproof, boasting an IPX rating of X8. It’s the same design, although scaled down, as you get with the excellent Kobo Aura One. In its place, you’ll find a flat, textured plastic backplate with a power button placed high and to the left. Gone is the original model’s distinctive angular backplate, which we loved as it was easy to keep a grip on. With its 5.08 by 6.77 by 0.33-inch dimensions and a weight of 7.3 ounces, the Edition 2 weighs and feels more like a current-generation Kindle Paperwhite than Kobo’s first-generation Aura H20. ![]() The Kobo Aura H2O Edition 2’s backplate makes it easy to grip, even when wet. It’s a $180 waterproof e-reader designed to go toe-to-toe with Amazon’s flagship e-reader, the Kindle Oasis. The results of their efforts culminate in the company’s latest device: The Kobo Aura H20 Edition 2. The Paperwhite measures 169 x 117 x 9.1 mm and the Aura H2O measures 172 x 129 x 8.8 mm.Over the past few years, Rakuten has revamped its e-readers’ design language, developed unique technologies that Amazon can only dream of baking into its Kindle hardware and, perhaps most importantly, tremendously expanded the variety of content available for download. The Paperwhite weighs 205 grams and the Aura H2O weighs 207 grams. The size difference between the two isn’t as significant as you’d expect. The Aura H2O is waterproof up to 60 minutes in 2 meters of water, IPX8 rated. The Kindle supports a VoiceView screen reader to read ebooks aloud using a Kindle Audio Adapter. Neither have memory card slots and both come equipped with the exact same 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM.īoth have Wi-Fi but the Kindle has the option for 3G. The Kindle Paperwhite has 4GB of internal storage space and the Aura H2O has 8GB. Kindles also have better PDF support and things like pinch-zooming and scrolling are much smoother and quicker to react. The Kindle Paperwhite offers some additional features, such as landscape mode for ebooks, annotations export, there’s a vocabulary builder, X-Ray, Goodreads integration, Word Wise, page scan, Kindle Unlimited, Kindle FreeTime, and Prime ebooks. There’s also support for a few extra formats, like ePub, and CBR and CBZ for comic files. The main difference is Kobo’s software offers more text layout settings, more font choices with a boldness slider, and you can sideload fonts. Both have web browsers, collections, and syncing features. The Kindle Paperwhite and Kobo Aura H2O share a lot of similar software features, like notes, highlights, bookmarks, dictionary lookup, Wikipedia reference, reading stats, sharing, search, etc. ![]() It has a dial to adjust the color from a lighter blue tone to yellow and orange. However, the color temperature of the Kobo Aura H2O’s light can be changed. The Kindle’s light is brighter at full level and it has kind of a natural white hue to it, whereas the Kobo’s light is a bit more grayish blue. Frontlight Comparisonīoth ebook readers have frontlights but the color tone is completely different. By default, Kobo’s ebooks have headers and footers so the actual text area is basically the same as on a 6-inch Kindle. The slightly larger display on the Aura H2O adds a bit more text on the screen, but only with sideloaded ebooks or if using the full screen patch. The Kobo Aura H2O has a 6.8-inch 1430 x 1080 resolution screen and the Kindle Paperwhite has a 6-inch 1448 x 1072 resolution screen.īoth use E Ink Carta screens but the Kindle’s is a bit sharper with 300 ppi versus 265 ppi for the Kobo, and the background color on the Kindle’s screen is noticeably lighter in tone, both with the frontlight on and off. One of the main differences is the display. All current Kindles have the exact same software and all but the $79 model have the same 300 ppi E Ink screen, so the overall differences are minor.Ĭheck the full reviews of the Kindle Paperwhite and Kobo Aura H2O for more details and video reviews below is a summary of the main differences between the two. ![]()
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