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24

Amazon Kindle Fire VS. The Kobo Vox

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Welcome to another Good e-Reader Comparison Video! Today we take a comprehensive look at two of the latest e-reader/tablet hybrids that is taking the world by storm. Of course we are talking about the Amazon Kindle Fire and Kobo Vox.

These two devices have a fair bit in common with the same 7 inch display screen and 1024×600 resolution. Surprisingly these two e-readers look very much alike with the overall aesthetics. The Kindle Fire blows the Vox away in terms of its dual core processor, where the Vox only has a single core 800 MHZ one.

In this video we go over most of the facets in which people will gauge whether the device is suitable for them. The Fire taps into a large ecosystem via Amazon and you can get videos, books, audiobooks, magazines and newspapers. The company is also putting on the finishing touches on its new comic book section. BY contrast, the Vox only offers books, magazines and newspapers.

This video compares book reading experience, internet, Youtube, hardware, software and a battery of tests. If you are thinking of purchasing these two e-readers for the holiday season, this is a MUST see video.


Michael Kozlowski  (1787 Posts)

Michael Kozlowski is the Editor in Chief of Good e-Reader. He has been writing about electronic readers and technology for the last four years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the Huffington Post, CNET and more. Michael frequently travels to international events such as IFA, Computex, CES, Book Expo and a myriad of others. If you have any questions about any of his articles, please send an email to michael@goodereader.com


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  • knowmaddd

    The in depth reviews are in. http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/23/2583371/kobo-vox-review

  • Undecided Buyer

    I feel this was an unfair comparison. You both seem MUCH more predisposed towards the kindle fire and proceeded to button bash on the vox, something that makes ALL touch screen devices suffer and lag. It does have a smaller processor, it also does do graphic novels and all the video formats the kindle does. If you’re going to review a product with another get someone who has an unbiased opinion. I’m trying to decide which to buy and you havn’t made it any easier. Do you both work for Kindle?

    That said good luck in the future.

  • sadcanadian

    Wow – so much for cutting edge Canadian technology.  Your video portrays the Vox as a piece of unresponsive junk.  If it’s as slow and as clumsy as it appears on your video, Kobo will soon join RIM on the Canadian technology deathwatch.  Sad in many ways – especially when I was considering buying a Vox.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=520236959 Lisa Elbertsen

    This was brilliant!  Thank you soooooooooooooo much for putting this together!  Since the Kindle Fire is not available in Canada I was going to buy the Vox but after this video I will hold off for now.

  • Regular reader

    I agree, it did seem fairly biased towards the Kindle Fire.

  • CuriosBuyer

    i live in canada and if you have the prime membership for amazon, do u think you could download apps and stuff on the kindle fire

  • Celeste

    I agree with Undecided buyer! When he is in the Kobo reading APP and is talking about changing the fonts, and size, he is not using the correct place to change these things. What you do is hold your finger on the page number, at the bottom, and that will bring up a menu. This is where you change these things. I work for Indigo, and play around with the Vox often. And the swiping from page to page is not like the kindle. You have to be liberal with your swipes, again not like the IPad and kindle. 

  • Karinbsilva

    I live in Canada ,and I bought the Kobo -Vox .I am getting pretty sick of all these negative reviews.I have had no problems with the reader.I downloaded all my books from my kobo account and also books from my computer that were downloaded from dutch sources.It works perfectly fine and I do not see it as a piece of junk.It might be a little slower then the kindle fire but so what.
    I can watch utube and it is a very good picture,Email everything works fine.For the price it is a great ereader.
    And no I do not work for Kobo

  • Chrislangton1988

    The Amazonian fire has the name Amazonian scratched in the back out it and a front screen unlike android …. dumb

  • Anonymous

    Thinking of buying the Kindle Fire but no information on reading in direct sunlight.. can anyone help..

  • Unconvinced

    I have to agree with a lot of the comments that everyone else has made here.  I could tell by the way that you were mashing at the screen and buttons on the vox that you weren’t even trying to make the vox work.  I have owned neither and came here looking for a fair assessment of the two, but I felt like I was watching one of those stupid infomercials where an actor pretends he doesn’t know how to slice a vegetable properly.  I believe that the Kindle Fire is a better product than the Vox, but I also think you made yourselves look biased and stupid by offering up this lackluster, uneven comparison.

  • Praryspud

    You’d best beware: not all Kindle books are available to Canada, and Kindle will allow access to US libraries ONLY. kind of makes borrowing books well, impossible if you live in Canada. If you like to borrow books don’t buy the Kindle. It’s that simple. Canadian customers need to really read the fine print before buying this tablet primarily as an ebook.

  • Praryspud

    Also, don’t be taken in by the Amazon Prime….it’s for US customers ONLY. Canadians need not apply. And don’t bother with the Kindle lending library, not available in Canada. Great device, but not for Canadians. Yet. Pity.

  • Mistery164

    Love my Vox.  Quit slamming it.  I would have to agree with the other people’s comments.  Do you work for Kindle?

  • Modjeska

    I own a Kobo Vox. After three weeks of usage, I think that the video review was accurate enough.

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