I compare kobo mini with Kindle · iPad mini · Nexus 7 etc and how small it is

What was on December 18 (Tue) releaseDelivery is delayedSure, I arrived in the morning today "Kobo miniTo see how small the mini size is, Amazon's "Kindle Paperwhite 3G, Apple's "IPad mini"Google's"Nexus 7"And compared it.

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At the time of arrival it was wrapped in transparent film in a box like this


When peeling off the film, it is not the lid of the box at the top, it turns out to be a manual


There is no longer such a thing as "I do not know what to do because the instruction is too simple because Bocoska was told at the first time kobo."


Also, even if you do not have a personal computer, you can even set up as a single unit if you connect to a wireless LAN. It is a truly amazing place to make improvements and make progress.


Turn over the box and cut the tape at both ends and open it. Since I write it in the languages ​​of various countries around the world, I can understand that "Oh, kobo is really based on the development in the world".


Whether it is to withstand the harsh transport environment around the world or what it is, it is quite tightly attached, and I do not say that it does not bother it even though there is no tape anymore. Even if you hold it upside down, I was able to open it because there is no gap in this degree.


Kobo mini appeared, the sleeping icon is displayed. There is a feeling that there is more love than this model around here.


Let's peel and peel off the film that protects the surface


If you pull out the main body from the box, there are even more under it, such as a brief instruction book or guarantee relationship or notes etc.


When you take out further icon display like "Open it from here".


Only


USB cable to be used for charging and synchronization


That's all we have


The size of such feeling when holding it in hand. Width 10.2 cm × height 13.3 cm, weighs about 134 g. Even if you bring with one hand, it is not painful at all, Rakuchin.


USB port at the bottom


Power switch at the top


The back side is like this. It is not slippery and not necessarily getting messed up, the touch is good and fingerprints are not included.


Now it is size comparison. The left is kobo mini, right is Kindle Paperwhite 3G.


Looking at the thickness, it seems like this, is kobo mini on the left a little thicker? That degree. Kindle has many curved parts with Earl and kobo mini has a straight side part, so Kindle is making it feel as thin as it is compared only with it.


However, when it overlaps directly above, it is such a feeling and it is a level that clearly understands its smallness which is an advantage of kobo mini.


Because it may be difficult to understand if it is only this, further comparison. "Kobo mini", "Kindle Paperwhite 3G", "Nexus 7", "iPad mini" in order from the left end.


Also compare with paperback


"Kobo mini", "paperback book", "Kindle Paperwhite 3G", "Nexus 7", "iPad mini" in ascending order from the left.


The fourth generation iPad is also added to the far right.


Also iPhone 5.


"IPhone 5", "kobo mini", "paperback book", "Kindle Paperwhite 3G", "Nexus 7", "iPad mini", "iPad" in order from the left. This way you can see that kobo mini is quite small.


Compared with the largest iPad, there is such a difference in size.


So, in terms of easy-to-carry size and weight, kobo mini is a staggering level as a choice of e-book readers at the moment. Moreover, the price is 6980 yen including tax including shipping fee, it is not expensive in terms of price.

There is only one point of difficulty, it is that the microSDHC card can not be inserted. Both kobo Touch and kobo glo can add microSDHC up to 32 GB, which is a feature not directly in the competitor Kindle. Even Rakuten kobo who collected up to 100,000 volumes in half for the remaining 10 days although the publisher was not promoting the conversion of e-books quite ahead and aimed at 200,000 volumes within the year,Rakuten kobo eBook store Japanese books exceeded 100,000 points, so I tried to verify contents inside again - see and walk by by Takano Ryo -As you can see, at the moment the score is 30.8%. There is a possibility that Amazon will pretend that it will become overwhelming product line first before going casually and it is still being undumped in the Kindle Fire series which is likely to become an Amazon shopping terminal & Android tablet.

So, as a direction that kobo can survive, it was extremely attractive to be able to increase to 32 GB at a stroke by microSDHC even in order to overcome rival models with very little internal space. However, this time kobo mini can not do it, the free space is about 1 GB ...... There is only feature "only small" with this. It was also the biggest feature of the kobo series "Even if the assortment is bad, let's pack a lot of self-cooked PDF files!The advantage of this kobo mini is missing. Probably, kobo itself, which is a headquarters expanding worldwide, is a considerable number of electronic books that can be purchased and subscribed on kobo unlike in Japan, and I think that it is a state that microSDHC etc. can be without it I will.

With no microSDHC, at least there is a mechanism to connect anything via Dropbox or SkyDrive like synchronization system, FTP client or web browser via wireless LAN to easily transfer files inside freely, in a sense, gaps It can not be thought that we can build a solid position as a very sharp e-book reader without any books.

That's why kobo mini is "I do not mind the amount of free space I do not mind the bad assortment, anyway I want small, light and portable electronic paper terminals to be super cheap!If you are a person, you can not have any complaints at all. So it should be okay if you place importance on mobility.