#Kobo aura edition 2 vs kobo clara software

Other than that, it has a nicer screen colour-adjustable light (for blue light reduction) and ever-so-slightly higher resolution, and all the other. I am getting the manufactured refurbished one from kobo. If the device is in good condition you are basically getting a current gen screen. I dont believe that eink has released a newer screen for 6 inch devices. Theyre not directly comparable, as the Aura H20 has a 6.8' screen, while the Clara 2e has a 6' screen, like the regular Aura. The aura 2 has a lower resolution screen than the Glo HD (212 ppi vs 300 ppi for the glo). The Aura Edition 2 sells for $119 in the US and $129 in Canada. The features remain the same with Overdrive and Pocket integration. In terms of price, the Kobo Aura One sells for $229 in the US and $249 in Canada. The Aura One is thinner at 6.9mm to the Aura 2’s 8.5mm, but the Aura 2 has the advantage with longer batter life, twice as long by Kobo’s own estimates.

The larger Kobo weighs 230 grams and the smaller one weighs 180 grams. Additionally, the Aura One has a capacitive touchscreen and the Aura Edition 2 has an infrared touchscreen. Neither have memory card slots and both have the same 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM, so there’s no performance advantage either way. The other hardware difference is the Aura One has 8GB of storage space, whereas the 6-inch model has 4GB. The Kobo Aura One is waterproof, which I forgot to mention in the video. Self-lit devices have a back or front light incorporated, so they can be used in poor light conditions or in the dark. The light on the Aura One is brighter and a bit more even, but lights can vary a lot from one to the next. The size of the screen (measured diagonally). Damage-resistant glass (such as Corning Gorilla Glass or Asahi Dragontrail Glass) is thin, lightweight, and can withstand high levels of force. With the Aura Edition 2 it just has a regular manual-adjusting frontlight with no sensor or color tone option. More screen shades (greys) result in better gradients and usually a better reading experience. Text is a bit crisper and darker on the higher resolution screen but it’s not a big difference.īoth models have frontlights and the Aura One has an auto-adjusting light and the color tone of the frontlight can be customized from bluish to orange. When it comes to hardware, the Aura One has a 7.8-inch E Ink Carta screen with 300 ppi and the Aura Edition 2 has a 6-inch E Ink Carta screen with 212 ppi.

With the larger screen size the Aura One also offers a few more font sizes but that’s about the only noticeable difference software-wise. Perhaps Kobo may add OverDrive support to other models later but it’s only on the Aura One at present. The one exception is the Aura One has OverDrive support built-in for downloading library ebooks directly, whereas the Aura Edition 2 has to have library books sideloaded using a computer.

The Aura One is a bit harder to get a handle. It measures 6.8 by 5.1 by 0.3 inches (HWD) and weighs 7.4 ounces.

#Kobo aura edition 2 vs kobo clara software

I put together a quick video comparison for the two new models showing the difference in size and build quality.įor the most part the software is the same and they share all the same features. The Aura H2O looks an awful lot like the Aura One, albeit a bit smaller and lighter.