Kobo has launched its first era of color e-readers a few months in the past. They initially ordered a million items of the Clara Color and Libra Color. The upstream provide chain can simply deal with two extra million items to fulfill potential buyer demand. Clients appear to be embracing the 7-inch Kobo Libra Color in comparison with the 6-inch Kobo Clara Color. The preliminary delivery ratio between the 2 was roughly 3:2, that means shoppers desire the bigger system.
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has a robust monitor report within the tech business, disclosed in a current report “Attributable to better-than-expected first-wave gross sales, Kobo will speed up its plan to launch a bigger color e-reader utilizing E Ink’s 10.3-inch Kaleido and expects to launch it earlier than the top of 2024 on the earliest if the panel and meeting capability can meet the frenzy order demand.”
The brand new 10.3 mannequin he refers to will probably be an upcoming Elipsa Color, a large-screen e-notebook and e-reader. This may lastly enable the typical person and enterprise clients to freehand draw, take notes, make annotations in ebooks, and signal PDF information. Kobo can be the world’s largest and most well-funded firm to supply a large-screen Kaleido 3 e-paper system. It will be bought on-line via their worldwide distribution community bookstores and large field retailers. This Elipsa mannequin could have 300 PPI for black and white and 150 for color.
Ming-Chi Kuo additionally speculated that ‘If strong demand continues for a number of months, Kobo might add new product traces of higher-end color e-readers (utilizing E Ink’s Gallery, which has higher distinction than Kaleido) and cease supplying monochrome e-readers in 2025.’ Gallery 3 represents the top of color e-paper expertise since it may possibly show over 50,000 colors vs. Kaleido 3, which might solely deal with lower than 5,000.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the previous fifteen years. Newspapers and web sites such because the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Submit and the New York Instances have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
