The Kobo Arc's front panel comprises a thick frame made of high quality plastic that surrounds the tablet's 7-inch screen. The tablet comes in Black and White colour variants and we got a White one as our review unit. The Kobo Arc looks more like a 7-inch e-book reader with the placement of the camera and two front speakers done keeping in mind that users would majorly hold it in portrait mode.
#Kobo tablet android#
We try to find out if Kobo's been able to strike a balance between an e-reading device and a full-featured Android tablet, in our review. So, in a way it also competes with other 7-inch Android tablets like the Nexus 7 and Galaxy Tab 3. However, it also features the Google Play Store and Google's natives app, that are missing from Amazon's Kindle offering.
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As with the Kindle Fire tablet, Kobo's Arc tablet is deeply integrated with Kobo's 'eBooks'Įcosystem, which is also one of the USPs of the tablets. Kobo's Android tablet is called the Kobo Arc and competes with the likes of the Kindle Fire HD. Tablets made by e-book reader companies are essentially multimedia capable devices made to please users who're looking to invest in e-books but don't want an e-ink display and want their device to do much more. We couldn’t get BBC iPlayer to work either, and the Arc also makes an intermittent, very faint fan-like noise, although this is only audible in quiet environments.Canadian e-reader maker, Kobo, recently launched three of its e-readers (it calls them eReaders), and a 7-inch Android tablet, in the Indian market. The second problem is more irritating: we found the Arc frequently dropped its connection to our Wi-Fi router, and this problem could only be resolved by switching it off and on again in the settings. The first is an annoying typing lag on the stock Android keyboard, but we easily resolved it by installing a more responsive alternative, such as Swiftkey. Neither result blows the competition out of the water (the Kindle Fire HD has longer battery life), but they’re not disastrously bad either. It also performs well in benchmarks, achieving 1,470ms in the SunSpider JavaScript test and nine hours and six minutes in our battery test.
#Kobo tablet 1080p#
The Kobo Arc plays 1080p video smoothly and demanding games look and feel spectacular. Sadly, there isn’t a 3G model, and you don’t get a microSD card slot for expanding the storage or an HDMI output, but other than these omissions, there’s nothing to complain about. It's available in both black and white colour options. It’s 11.5mm thick and weighs 364g, which is lighter than the Kindle Fire HD, but still a little weighty for an eBook reader. You can buy it with either 16GB (as reviewed here) 32GB or 64GB of storage. It has a dual-core 1.5GHz processor and 1GB of RAM. It has an IPS screen with a resolution of 1,280x800, matching the Kindle Fire HD’s resolution, and so is bright, sharp and colourful with exceptionally good viewing angles. The Kobo Arc is a 7in tablet which originally ran Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
#Kobo tablet software#
Originally £159 when we first reviewed it, the Arc can now be found for as little as £99 for a 64GB version from, although the 7in Kindle Fire only costs £20 more and is still fully supported in terms of software updates. Now officially end of life, is it still worth picking one up second hand, should you look to Kobo's newer models, or does another manufacturer have the ideal Android-based eBook reader? The Kobo Arc arrived hot on the heels of the Kindle Fire HD and Barnes & Noble Nook HD as the latest in a line of tablet-based eBook readers.
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