Tolino Vision 4HD – Twice the Storage, and a Blue Light Filter

07.11.2016 Nate Hoffelder No Comments

The German ebook consortium Tolino announced its newest ereader on Monday. The Tolino Vision 4HD is almost identical to its predecessor, but it does have a couple features to recommend it.

The Vision 4HD sports the same 6″ Carta E-ink screen (300 ppi), runs on the same 1GHz Freescale CPU, and has the same waterproofing as its predecessor, but there are a couple subtle improvements which may make this ereader worth getting when it reaches store shelves tomorrow.

Lesen.net reports that the Vision 4HD ships with twice the storage (8GB) and a USB cable which looks like it has a standard plug but will actually work both ways. The new cable is on the right:

Those who just want the cable can find them on Amazon for $5 to $10.

The other significant change to the Vision 4HD concerns its frontlight. Tolino followed Kobo’s lead and upgraded the frontlight with a night-reading mode which filters out the blue light emitted by the frontlight.

Tolino is calling it "smartLight", and when enabled this feature changes the color of the frontlight so that it looks bluer in the morning and more orange-red in the evening.

The Kobo Aura One, on the other hand, goes from white to a red-orange depending on the time of day and on a user’s settings.

And of course the Aura One has an 8″ screen; the Vision HD is the first ereader with a 6″ E-ink screen to add this feature.

You can see it in action in the following video at about 10:33: