And that's all very good news indeed.īack to what you're perhaps most likely to use the Arc for: buying books and reading them on that full colour screen. ![]() It's a 1920 x 1200 resolution, similar to the 1080p screen that you'd find on something like the latest Nexus 7, albeit in a different aspect ratio better suited for books. That's worth a line in itself: the Arc 7HD, as its name implied, comes with an HD display. Disappointingly there are only three font options - Droid Serif, Droid Sans Serif and Publisher Default - which is fewer than on Kobo’s e-ink readers, but the two Droid options are easy on the eye and look great on the high-resolution display. Tap to open them and you can tweak the typeface, font size and colours. The Kobo Library screen will be immediately familiar to anyone who has used an e-ink device, presenting your downloads and previews in a scrolling list. If you do, you might feel a bit lost having to dig most of them out of the app browser each time. This shouldn’t really be a problem unless you keep a lot of Widgets in view or like to split applications between discrete screens according to task or feature. Where Android devices traditionally have five screens across to host apps and widgets, the Arc 7HD has only one, with a further two given over to your Kobo Library and Kobo Collections where you can store up all those eBooks. It’s good-looking device, with a flat front, chiselled rear and rounded corners - altogether far more business-like than Tesco’s curved and colourful Hudl. But with the pricier and on-paper mightier Amazon Kindle Fire HDX just around the corner, has the more budget Kobo got what it takes to fight its corner against the Amazon giant? Hey good lookin'įirst impressions of the Kobo Arc 7HD are strong. ![]() Sounds like a serious bit of kit without a seriously damaging impact on the wallet.
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