Pocketbook’s latest new 6″ ereader, the Pocketbook Verta, has turned up on their official Amazon store, and it’s available to order for $169.
It’s still listed as “temporarily out of stock” since it just showed up, but they are accepting orders so it’ll probably start shipping soon. There’s also a new listing for a shell cover for the Verta and Verta Color, but it appears to just be a front flap. Apparently covers clip onto the back of the Verta and Verta Color with the new design.
The new Pocketbook Verta looks a lot like the Verse Pro, and there are a lot of overlapping features, but the Verta has a new design with a removable back (presumably so you can easily replace the battery), and they’re going to sell replacement back panels in 5 different colors. The button strip at the bottom of the screen has a new look as well; the buttons look larger, for one.
According to Pocketbook’s website, the Verta is using a different processor than other Pocketbooks, a quad-core ARM Cortex-A55, with twice as much RAM (1GB) as the Verse Pro, so hopefully that’ll help improve performance a bit since Pocketbooks are notoriously slow, although the bottleneck seems to be Pocketbook’s software optimization, or lack thereof.
The Pocketbook Verta has a 6″ E Ink Carta 1300 screen with 300 ppi, and it has a SMARTlight (frontlight with adjustable color temperature).
The listing says it has a 16GB internal memory card pre-installed, and a 1500 mAh battery. It has a rotation sensor, a cover sensor, a USB-C port, and it has an IPX4-rating so it has “splash” protection. It also has WiFi and Bluetooth and a capacitive touchscreen. The weight is listed at 140 grams, which is surprisingly light considering the Verse and Verse Pro weigh 186 grams.
There’s going to be a Verta Color as well, but it’s not listed for sale on Amazon yet. It’s been 3 months since the Pocketbook Q was announced and it’s still not available yet either, and the product page was removed from the main Pocketbook website so that’s not a good sign. Maybe it’s only going to get released in select markets.
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