Kobo Vox eReader – an Android tablet – like Nook and Kindle Fire is now available for pre-order at $199. The ereader will be shipped starting from October 28, way before Amazon will ship its Kindle Fire. That means, people will touch it, feel it, review it, and start consuming it at least 15 days ahead of Kindle Fire’s arrival to customers hand. Before jump into the main features of the Kobo Vox, let me make it known first that it’s now for U.S. and Canada only. The company will not ship any other countries.
It seems that kobo has developed partnership with some companies for the contents excepts ebooks for which the company has already a sore. The magazine partner is Zinio, newspaper is Pressdirect, music is RDIO. I’m not sure about the app store and video/movie content partnership. This is in opposite to what Amazon is doing for Kindle Fire.
Now, the features:
- Wifi only
- 7″ Touch Screen
- 8G of internal memory – enough for over 5,000 books and 20,000 songs with 32G expandable storage option
- ‘open access’ to Android 2.3 (what that open access means, I don’t know yet, certainly it doesn’t have access to Google Android Market)
- Battery lasts up to 7 hours
- Choice of 7 font styles, 42 sizes, day and night reading mode, brightness setting and orientation
- Includes advanced features like highlighting, annotations, dictionary look-up, automatic last page read bookmark
- Reading Life™ – track your personal reading stats, earn fun awards just for reading, and share favorite passages to Facebook® and Twitter®
- Social reading with Kobo Pulse™ – see what other readers though of the passage you just read, share your ideas with the Kobo community!
- Built-in Web browser, and full-featured email (POP3, IMAP4)
- Integrated music and video player
- Comes with Facebook® and RDIO® apps
- Includes gift of 3 glossy color books, 12 magazines and 7 newspapers to get you started!
- Integrated with Zinio® for popular magazines and PressReader™ newspapers from around the world
- Kobo store offers over 15,000 hot music, video and game apps
Every eBook purchase you make from October 19-31 gives you an entry for a chance to win 1 of 10 Kobo Vox™ eReaders.
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