PocketBook has introduced its latest e-reader, the InkPad Color, which attempts to compete with the Amazon Kindle with a color-rich display. [The successor to last year's PocketBooker Color, the InkPad Color is a 7.8-inch e-reader that uses the latest version of Kaleido technology seen on previous PocketBook devices, The Verge reports. [The Kaleido panel on the InkPad Color not only increases screen contrast and saturation, but also increases the refresh rate of the screen for smoother page flipping. This is expected to make the InkPad an excellent device for reading magazines, children's books, and graphic novels, which other e-readers do not necessarily excel at.

While the InkPad Color is far from the first color e-reader on the market, its 7.8-inch screen is certainly a unique selling point. The display outperforms Amazon's largest e-reader, the Kindle Oasis, in both size and contrast.

Thanks to upgraded Kaledio technology, the device can display about 4,100 colors, but there are drawbacks. Color output is limited to 100 ppi, but grayscale resolution is quite high at 300 ppi.

Other specs are also solid: the InkPad Color runs a custom version of Linux, is 8 mm thick, and weighs 225 g, making it slightly on the heavy side, but overall it is very portable.

Internal storage is 16 GB, expandable thanks to an SD card slot.

The InkPad Color is currently available on Amazon, priced at $329 / 366 lbs.