When we reviewed PocketBook Color last year, we really appreciated the tool and the fact that real e-readers could finally display color, but the six-inch screen made it difficult to use for reading comic books and magazines that work much better on records. The new PocketBook InkPad Color will try to rectify that with a larger 7.8-inch screen that uses next-generation E-Ink color electronic paper technology.
The larger screen at InkPad, which makes it look more like an iPad Mini and smaller like the Amazon Kindle, is going to attract more people to color E-Ink devices because it allows documents can’t be easily resized (resizes text and can resize to screen, but that’s not an option with pictures) enjoy without constantly moving in and out to make text easy to read. On a device that is powered by a 1 GHz processor and only 1 GB of RAM, moving and cooking large documents is not the best experience, so while the InkPad is not as pocketable as the original PocketBook Color, the reading experience itself should be much better.
PocketBook is the first company to introduce an e-reader using E Ink’s new Kaleido 2 screen technology, but it’s not a quantum leap for colored electronic paper. In black and white mode the InkPad screen offers a resolution of 1872 × 1404 pixels at 300 PPI. But in color mode, it can still only capture a third of that resolution, just 624 × 468 pixels at 100 PP. Color reproduction is still limited to just 4,096 different shapes, compared to the 16 million + colors that an LCD can reproduce. But according to those on it eyes ahead with the new InkPad, with Kaleido 2 E Ink has improved the color and saturation accuracy of the screen, while at the same time improving the performance of the black and white mode. The changes under the hood may be small, but they seem to make a big difference to the eyes.
Other enhancements made to the new PocketBook InkPad include a redesigned color filtering layer (the technology that makes colored electronic paper possible) that is augmented for the white LED sides of the device to accommodate colors still pop while reading in the dark, and a USB-C port for charging and syncing, although documents can also be loaded with a microSD card allowing 16GB of internal storage. expand the board indefinitely.
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In North America, at least, PocketBook is not a brand called Kindle or Kobo, but if you don’t get your e-books through online stores like Amazon or Rakuten, or usually use these tools for proving work. or academic documents, the brand may be worth considering as it supports almost all digital document formats: including EPUB, MOBI, CBZ, CBR, and PDFs. The InkPad also includes Bluetooth for streaming audio books or actually a digital audio file to a pair of wireless headphones, as well as a text-to-speech function that works in 16 different languages .
The original PocketBook color was $ 230, but due to the larger size and screen, the new PocketBook InkPad is slightly more expensive at $ 329, now available from online stores like NewEgg. We’ll be working closely with the board next week to see if the InkPad is the perfect e-reader for comic books and magazines, so keep an eye out for our full review.