Kobo Forma is a Kindle Oasis Clone, Will Ship on 16 October
It seems Kobo wasn’t too happy at the absolute secrecy surrounding its new ereader, so it decided to fix that situation by leaking a product render of its next ereader.
A short while ago Kobo Spain tweeted a graphic that showed a new ereader named the Kobo Forma. They quickly deleted their tweet, but not before several people snagged copies:
Who? It’s true? Today at Kobo Spain: @kobo @Kobo_ES pic.twitter.com/35EF2q1B1A
— Ernest Prats Garcia (@eprats) September 27, 2018
The Kobo Forma would appear to be the unnamed Kobo device that cleared the FCC in August.
We know almost nothing about that ereader beside the fact it had Wifi but not Bluetooth, and that the FCC unit had a 1.2Ah battery, but now it looks like it will have a one-handed design similar to that of the Kindle Oasis.
We’ll know more in a couple weeks.
I for one can’t wait to see it; I love the idea when Amazon tried it, but never found the original Oasis appealing (and Amazon wouldn’t send me an Oasis 2 review unit, so I can’t say much about it). But now Kobo is going to give it a try, and it’s like Christmas is coming early this year.
Stay tuned.
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