What is the difference between kobo touch and vox

The Kobo Arc runs Android 4. It also has the option to snap on different colored backs. Kobo Arc ». It comes with an open Android 2. And Kobo even updated it to add official support for the Google Play Store. There are four color options for the sides of the Kobo Vox: ice blue, lime green, hot pink, and jet black.

Kobo Vox Review ». The Kobo Touch is a faster, lighter, more advanced version of the Kobo WiFi, while still maintaining the low price and Kobo's unique approach to ereading. Kobo Touch Review ». The Kobo Wireless eReader is Kobo's second generation reader. It has WiFi built-in for connecting to the Kobo ebook store to download ebooks directly without the need of a computer.

The Kobo WiFi is a budget ebook reader that is one of the lowest-priced E Ink ereaders on the market. Kobo WiFi Review ». Like its E Ink sibling, the Kobo Touch e-reader , the Vox has a social focus, and places an emphasis on sharing reading experiences. Of the three tablets, the Vox is the most like a true Android 2. The good part: You get many of the stock Android apps that come with Gingerbread email, calculator, contacts, calendar, clock, browser, gallery, YouTube , minus Google apps such as those for Gmail and the Android Market, since this is not a Google device.

The bad part: Gingerbread is more designed for phones than it is for the 7-inch screen of a tablet. Still, you get the benefit of having Android navigation conventions that you may already be used to on your smartphone, from the six-button menu pop-ups to the three familiar capacitive-touch Android buttons back, menu, and home to shortcuts such as pressing and holding the menu button to call up your eight most recently accessed apps.

True to a typical Gingerbread tablet, the Vox produced a handful of errors and glitches when I tried to use some of the apps, including the preinstalled Scrabble Free. Kobo advertises full open access to Android, and I found that it worked as such, most of the time. I had issues with some app sources, but other apps installed just fine, including an. At the center of the home screen sits a Kobo widget that shows your four most recently accessed books.

Thanks Lisa. The Vox seems to get almost universally slated. I'd avoid it like the plague. Any reason why you're only considering Kobo devices? You really need to decide whether you want a dedicated eInk reader, or a general-purpose LCD tablet.

They are completely different beasts. Originally Posted by HarryT. I have both, and I love both. Personally, I use Aldiko instead. It has more customizable options, loads faster, and supports Kobo's ebooks as well. Plus it supports PDF; the Kobo app doesn't. One of the coolest things about the Kobo Vox is how open it is. Plus you can install pretty much ereading app you want, including Kindle and Nook. Not to mention the Overdrive app for borrowing library ebooks. The Kobo Vox comes with the stock Android music player that supports common formats listed below and the Rdio app pre-installed.

That's the beauty with an open Android operating system. As mentioned earlier, the speaker is on the side so that helps keep it from being muffled, but the sound quality isn't great. Luckily the headphone jack works well. Video playback on the Kobo Vox is surprisingly good, and it supports Adobe Flash too. It does not come with a YouTube app unfortunately, instead just a bookmark to the mobile YouTube website, which is okay if you want to watch low quality videos.

I installed the actual YouTube app from over at Android Freeware and it runs great. Videos play in HD and look fantastic on the Kobo Vox's high-quality screen. There's an issue with Netflix , however. The newer version loads and acts like it is going to work, but then when trying to play a video it gives an error.

I tried installing an older version and it would play the video with sound but no video. There's no reason the Vox shouldn't play Netflix; there's just a bug causing issues somewhere.