Kobo’s new Glo HD e-reader will boast the claim of highest resolution for the lowest price when it hits the market on May 1 for $129.99. The newest piece of hardware from Rakuten-owned Kobo offers 300 ppi
pixel density on a 6-inch display, which matches the screen on the $199.99
Kindle Voyage in terms of resolution, and which should mean extremely crisp, pixel-free rendering of text.
In fact, both the Kobo Glo HD and the Kindle Voyage use e-ink’s Carta screen tech, which means text rendering similar to what you’d get with a super high resolution e-ink screen like those found in
iPhones and modern
Android devices, albeit using the low-power e-paper tech that displays in black and white and is better suited to a dedicated text reading device.
The Glo HD also features Kobo’s ComfortLight tech, which provides built-in lighting for reading in the dark. Other tech specs include a 1GHz processor (again, like the Voyage) and it has 4GB of on-board storage for your library (again, like the Voyage), which is plenty for most. It weighs just 180 grams (again, like the Voyage) and measures 157 x 115 x 9.2 mm (slightly shorter, but slightly thicker than the Voyage).
