The Kobo Forma E-Reader is going to be available soon and many people are wondering about the new design. This device is unlike any other Kobo product ever released and it also has a 360 degree automatic orientation mode to read in landscape or portrait mode and take advantage of the manual page turn keys. Today Good e-Reader is proud to give you a sense of the final retail packaging and a first look at Forma.
The Kobo Forma features an 8 inch display and a resolution of 1440 × 1920 and 300 PPI. It is powered by a Freescale IMX6 Solo Lite 1GHZ processor and 512MB of RAM. The 8GB storage model will be the most accessible, there is a 32GB version, but it will only launch in Japan, for now. The Forma also does not have an SD card.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
