KOBO AURA 2017 SOFTWARE

Kobo added an extra LED which provides a red-orange tint, and then changed the software so that users could adjust the brightness and the tint independently.Ĭorrection: The Aura One has '9 white LEDs and 8 RGB LEDs (with 3 lights in each)'.

Amazon made a big deal over the Kindle Oasis having ten LEDs (more than any other device) but Kobo found a better use for LEDs. The best ereaders on the market have a grayscale screen and a white frontlight, so you would think it would be impossible to add a frontlight which could shift colors.īut Kobo found a solution – one so obvious that I have to wonder why no one else has used it in the seven years since Sony debuted a frontlight on the PRS-700.Ī frontlight on an ereader is lit by tiny LEDs around the frame, and the ereader might have any where between 4 to 10 of them. However, the apps use a trick which won’t work for E-ink screens they variously disable the blue light coming out of the RGB pixels on a mobile device’s screen (some apps like do a lot more). The thinking behind these filters is that they are better for you to use at night because the blue end of the light spectrum is most likely to keep you up, which is why there are apps for iOS and Android that can do this. Amazon, Google, and even Apple released updates for Android, iOS, and Fire tablets which added optional bluelight filters. Night-reading modes were a hot topic in the ebook world last year. How the heck did Kobo add a night-reading mode with a red-orange filter? When Kobo announced the Aura One ereader this morning, one question was at the top of everyone’s mind: Hands On With Kobo Aura One Night Mode (video)

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