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Colordrop readers Bluetooth#

There’s a web browser, a notes app, and even some games like chess and sudoku. The PocketBook Color runs a custom Linux-based OS that includes various apps. I actually prefer this to the side-mounted page-turn buttons on previous Kindles I’ve owned, which never quite felt like they were at the right height - at least not for my thumbs. There are home, menu, and page-turn buttons located below the screen, and they’re all easily accessible at 160g, the PocketBook Color is light enough to hold with your thumb resting at the bottom.

Colordrop readers Bluetooth#

There’s a bundled Micro USB-to-headphone jack adapter so you can listen to audiobooks, and the device also has Bluetooth support for wireless headphones. You’ll find a power button, a Micro USB port (boo), and a microSD slot (yay) on the bottom edge. It’s all plastic, but the design is fairly sleek with a matte silver finish on the back and a soft-touch texture on the front. Screen aside, the PocketBook Color doesn’t look much different to any other 6-inch e-reader. The company has been around since 2007 and says it’s the world’s third largest maker of premium E Ink-based e-readers, presumably putting it behind Amazon and Rakuten’s Kobo. PocketBook is an e-reader manufacturer headquartered in Switzerland and mostly selling to various European markets.

Screen doesn’t look great with monochrome books.

I’ve been testing one of the first e-readers to use this type of display, the new €199 ($234) PocketBook Color, and while it’s not a perfect device, it’s good enough to give me hope in the future of color E Ink. They don’t have the battery life or the outdoor readability of E Ink, but it’s clear that that’s a niche concern.Į Ink is still working on the idea, though, and this year the company shipped its best shot yet at color screen tech that’s appropriate for e-readers: Kaleido. Amazon and Kobo still don’t sell color e-readers, and if anything the prospect seems even further off than it did a decade ago, now that it’s possible to sell passable LCD tablets for well under $100. Needless to say, that has not turned out to be the case. That’s how technology is meant to work, right? We see it in unfinished form at a trade show and it turns up in mainstream products a few years later. Back in the early days of The Verge, we’d often cover display technology like Qualcomm’s Mirasol or various E Ink prototypes and come away thinking that while it wasn’t quite ready, it was just a matter of time. I’ve been looking at color e-reader prototypes as long as I’ve been a tech journalist.