Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Attack on Amazon: Kindle against Tolino: How good are the new ebook reader? - Munich evening paper

New Ebook Readeri are on the market, Stiftung Warentest has been studied. Can the Tolino beat the Kindle Paperwhite

Munich – Which Ebook reader will have the edge? The Tolino Shine 2 blows to the attack on Amazon’s new success model Kindle Paperwhite 2 Stiftung Warentest has taken the two challengers under the microscope and tested the competition from Kobo, Sony and Trekstor. The upshot: The Ebook Reader are at a high level. The only device with a color display but fell somewhat.

In the test, the Kindle 2 and the White Paper Tolino Shine 2 provided a head-to-head race. At the end of the Amazon device’s nose had razor thin front. Its display was just a tad bit easier to read in dark conditions. In addition, the testers praised the simpler software for bookstore from the online book store. But to buy the Amazon customers with a disadvantage.

Because the Kindle Paperwhite 2 can only rely on the book offer from Amazon. Although this is huge, but one is always tied to the Internet giant. Unlike the Tolino Shine 2 The reader supports the offer of Buecher.de, Weltbild.de, Bertelsmann, buch.de, Thalia.de, Hugendubel and Telekom. In the meantime can be, the Tolino reader also link the libraries from different vendors. If a user, for example, bought an ebook at Hugendubel, this also appears on a Tolino of Buecher.de. This works since the new firmware version 1.3.

such questions the Amazon customers do not have to deal with. If you read, for example, an e-book with the Kindle app on the way to work with the smartphone up to page 35, then you can read more at home on the Paperwhite right there. Although this link is now also dominates the Tolino. But the system is still flap quite as smoothly as Amazon, criticized the tester.

As the Tolino also put the other e-book on the open copy protection system from Adobe. Except for the Sony PRS-T3 all have a backlight and are so easy to read even in low light. The Reader Kobo aura PocketBook Touch Lux and the Sony PRS-T3 got from the Stiftung Warentest all “good”. Only the Trekstor Pyrus 2 Led fell off. In the device ticked off and the software, leading to crashes. An update will change all that now. Only a “satisfactory” was the only device with a color display: the Pocket Book Color Lux In test its display convinced not like the black and white ads of competitors

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latter are now in all devices at such a high level that the purchase decision no longer depends on it. The user must decide if they want to bind to the industry giants Amazon open system of Tolino and Co., or rather.

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