Cobo has released their first truly
large screen e-reader seven point eight
inches that's called the Kobo aura one
it's available for order right now and
it's going to be available in the first
week of September for goodie reader -
Michael this is Peter and today we're
going to give you a full hands-on review
of this device
but first let's give you a brief 360 so
you can get a sense of the hardware and
overall design so you have a flush
screen in bezel very nice design Kobo
Rakuten logo on the bottom you have a
status indicator light and a light
sensor white balance sensor we'll get
into that when we do the Glo light test
we have a clean top left and right our
button has been relocated to the back of
the device nice textured backing Kobo
has always had really nice artistic
backings nice high grip embossed logo
and a micro USB port on the bottom I'll
show you some brief specs feel free to
pause the video at any point in time if
you guys want to read this seven point
eight inch 300 PPI comfort light 60
Minutes waterproof so Cobras really
doing nothing different with the home
screen design it's responsive based on
your last tasks so you can see that
we've added some books here we've opened
some books some PDF files and so every
task you do the previous tasks are
replaced and this is meant to function
as shortcuts now what's really new about
this device well it has overdrive
functionality it's not turned on yet but
it allows you to be able to borrow
ebooks from the library so if you click
the Settings button you can actually log
in to your overdrive account so you must
have a library card number as well as a
pin number and this will allow you to
visit the Kobo book store and then when
you click on a specific title not only
will it give you the ability to download
a sample or to buy it but they'll
actually be a borrow from a library
button here as well
so Kobo has optimized the store
experience so she just faster it is and
I think that this is very different from
the Amazon experience which is very you
scroll yet Kobo does do things that no
other
ereader company does so you have reading
stats so based on the book that we just
opened you can organize reading lists
and there's a myriad of options here you
can establish collections so if you have
a large ebook collection you can make a
PDF directory romance directory fantasy
directory and then that way you can
better organize an e-reader that's full
of 50 to 100 different titles and there
is actually a book on here that tells
you how to use pocket and I think that's
cool it's same with a lot of the other
functions here it teaches you how to
actually use it well this is a large
screen e-reader so this means that the
book experience should be the best out
of any Kobo devices now we've saw the
six point eight inch before on both thee
or HD and the or h2o this goes a step
further it's a seven point eight so this
is a lot of text displaying on one
screen at any given time you have all
your same functionalities you have long
press long press brings up a dictionary
definition we also have highlights
search in book Wikipedia Google
and then highlight and add note we'll
look at the keyboard while we're here
keyboard is kind of unconventional
QWERTY Koval has always kind of stacked
the letters on top of each other whereas
a true QWERTY is staggered
responsiveness is actually pretty good I
miss I misspelled it but you can see
it's actually pretty quick as you type
end it just plays a little catch up now
and then but it never actually misses
anything so the keyboard experience is
actually quite nice what I like about
the keyboard is that the numbers are at
the very top yeah and that helps when
you're adding Wi-Fi passwords you don't
have to click shift or the numerical
value exactly so if we click the
double-a button at the bottom this will
allow us to change everything here
justification margins line spacing all
of the changes live and there's a lot
more options than Amazon devices because
you have a slider bar rather than a
tiered level amount you have many
different fonts and loading your own
fonts if you want as well we have
advanced something Kobo is the only guys
to do once again if you change stuff it
shows you a before and after.look of
what it's going to be and what it was
you can click apply to change those
settings also we click in the middle and
bring up the stats you see a lot of
statistics next chapter averages hours
to go minutes to go and so forth page
turns the latest e-readers that have
been in existence for the past 1 or 2
years they haven't really they've hit
their max they're just they're quick
yeah because they'll be it's it's the
quickest that it's ever been in a
history of us review in e-readers and
we've been reviewing things like this
since 2008 exactly so this is a very
lightweight PDF file so this is a world
newspaper it's just a generic newspaper
to give a good different good mix of
text a little bit of greyscale some
headers stuff like that so we'll go in
and go for assume now we've noticed the
zoom experience on the Kobo or one isn't
the greatest you see it kind of
struggling along it is readable as
you're doing it but you do have to wait
the couple seconds for it to fully
render you can double tap to go to the
full page
and you can't do any long presses like
Amazon devices but the overall
experience is feasible if you're looking
at the full page scale the C reader has
a great front lit display not only that
it actually has a like sensor and that
will automatically allow the screen to
control the brightness depending on your
environmental circumstances whether you
are in sunlight or whether you're in a
dark studio like this you can
automatically adjust it and we'll show
you how so you can adjust the light
intensity by moving this slider bar it
doesn't change live unless you let go of
it which is actually a little bit
different than the previous generations
so you can see it's it's wide all the
way down to zero so it's it's one of the
best glow lights we've seen now if Coco
takes it a step further and they have
something called natural light and this
is basically you playing with the the
white balance so you can see it's more
peachy now and then you can see now it's
a really really intense red and what
this does is it just kind of allows you
to eliminate or increase the amount of
blue you see on the screen for the
appropriate time of day you can also set
both of these to auto and if you wonder
we very well see it's orange but if
you're wondering why it's orange is
because of this if we turn on a studio
light you'll see
so you can see with the light on it's
very much gently balanced so it's really
just a way for you to control exposure
settings on an e-reader what you've
never been able to do before the C
reader is a culmination of everything
that Cobos done from when they first
started all the way until 2016 it's
waterproof
it's a flush screen in bezel it has
overdrive functionality it has probably
the best frontlet experience that Kobo
has ever done as well as the new feature
which changes you know the screen and
eliminates blue light so the C reader
can do it all as well as its giant so if
you're reading manga you're reading PDF
files if you're reading ebooks you have
more screen real estate to be able to
fit more text on a page we'd like to
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of the Kobo aura one my name's michael
this is peter everybody take care