Yesterday we presented you the new Tolino eReader, an eReader that was presented at the Frankfurt Fair but it was not the only one. The Tolino Alliance has also presented the Tolino Shine 2 HD, an eReader that took up the name of an old model.
In essence the new Tolino Shine 2 HD is the same as Tolino Vision 3 HD Except for the lack of two elements that makes the new Tolino Shine 2 HD cheaper than the Tolino Vision 3 HD. The missing elements in the new Tolino Shine 2 HD are resistance to water or shocks and the tap2flip.
Two elements that personally I do not miss it in an eReader and yet it seems that this has made Tolino's devices more expensive up to 40 euros on its value basic, something that seems quite high if we take into account that now there are already tablets with a price of less than 50 dollars, that is to say, that for this difference, one can get a tablet and an eReader, that is, without the resistance to water, but two readers after all.
If we ignore the Tolino Vision 3 HD and take into account the Tolino Shine 2 HD and its price, I could say that we are facing a very interesting device, capable of facing the Kobo Glo HD and the Kindle Paperwhite, which although it has a capacity of Storage depleted, the Tolino SHine 2 HD has the possibility to store up to 25 GB of documents and ebooks, access to hotspots or simply does not have advertising on this device.
But, worst of all is that the economically high device is the one that is ringing in the markets and not the economic alternatives. Fortunately, there are more and more cheap devices with high quality and high technology.