![]() KOBO ELIPSA 2E REVIEW: SOFTWARE AND PERFORMANCE That's how I like to read, and that's the area of the Elipsa 2E experience that won me over the most. I mean old school: writing in the margins and circling diagrams. I'm not talking about sticky notes like Amazon's solution for the Kindle Scribe (which doesn't even support handwritten notes in all books). Even the pen's shape, which sports two softly flattened sides and a metal build, feels rich and comfortable to hold.įor me, the Elipsa 2E's best feature is that it supports actual handwritten annotations in books bought through Kobo's store. The inclusion of a button on the pen is also a great way to shortcut an often-used feature, set by default to a highlighter, while Kobo's eraser around the back of the pen also works well. Powered by the popular Nebo, it can convert handwritten copy into text and even supports rich formatting, so if you underline words, it will turn them into a title, or you can circle to highlight them. The Elipsa 2E has a more feature-rich note-taking app than that of the Kindle Scribe. Your in-book annotations are also only visible on your Elipsa or iPhone, so aren't synced with your Kobo Android app just yet.īut it isn't all bad. With a total of 20 paper types to choose from (updated from four when we first tested it), as well as a range of pens which support pressure sensitivity, you can easily take notes that live on your Elipsa.Īs of yet, you can't access your notes in the Kobo app. Less frustrating, but still worth mentioning, the Elipsa 2E has weaker palm rejection than its competition, so a resting palm would flip the page before the pen tip would flip the virtual screen on a few occasions. Other times, most frequently when the Elipsa 2E was in the case or in hand, there were a couple of millimetres between our tip and the on-screen stroke. Writing on it was accurate and we could easily doodle, knowing exactly where our pen strokes would end up. Occasionally, the writing experience was spot-on. More frustrating than the pen needing charging, however, is the fact we had serious inconsistencies when it came to pen tip accuracy. This is a small bugbear, but it's worth mentioning, especially given the fact there's no obvious way of checking how much battery is left in the pen. ![]() So what's wrong with it?įor starters, you have to charge the pen, unlike competing tablet styli which are battery-free. Neither Amazon, Boox, or ReMarkable offer that level of value. After all, it has a button and an eraser on the back. On paper, the pen should be a best-in-class addition. The Elipsa 2E's pen experience is the tablet's weakest area. After all, the screen's matte texture diffuses glare well, making it easy to see indoors or out, so you'll only need to pump up the brightness when the lights go down. If you don't mind manually toggling it, though, viewing angles on Kobo's slate are strong, even without a backlight, and we actually kept it off in most conditions, which also saves battery. What might swing you in the Kindle Scribe's direction is the fact it features auto-brightness, so can dial brightness up or down depending on your environment. Onto the screen: clocking in with the same size and resolution as that of Amazon's Kindle Scribe – 10.3-inches with 1404 x 1872 pixels – and with both sporting mighty backlights that shine warm or cool, it really is splitting hairs when choosing between the two tablets' mighty similar core hardware.
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