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Onyx Boox Palma 2 review: a slight upgrade on a great e-reader

Onyx Boox Palma 2 review: a slight upgrade on a great e-reader

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The Boox Palma 2 remains a Boox Palma. That is the best and worst thing about it. A little over a year after Onyx shipped its first $279.99 smartphone-sized e-reader — a device I love and use just about every day — the company has released its successor. And it is, in every meaningful way, the same exact thing. The Good Such a nice size for an e-reader Updated version of Android Excellent battery life The Bad Still too expensive Still running on outdated specs The new chip doesn’t feel much faster How we rate and review products On one level, this is fine. Good, even! The Palma’s whole appeal is based on its simplicity. By shipping a device roughly the size of a smartphone, with access to all the apps in the Play Store and an E Ink screen that’s easy to look at and takes days to drain the battery, Onyx found a winning combo. For anyone seeking a way to easily read books, documents, and stuff from the web, there’s really nothing …

The Boox Palma 2 has a faster processor and adds a fingerprint reader

The Boox Palma 2 has a faster processor and adds a fingerprint reader

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Boox has announced the Palma 2, the next version of its popular smartphone-sized e-reader. The Palma 2 addresses some of the original’s shortcomings, with a faster processor to address the original’s laggy interface and by running a newer version of Android. The original Palma ran on Android 11, but the new Palma 2 will debut with Android 13.Image: Boox But it was the Palma’s compact size and access to thousands of apps that helped it become a popular Kindle and Kobo alternative, and Boox isn’t messing with that formula for the Palma 2. It features the same 6.13-inch 300ppi E Ink Carta 1200 screen as the original (a generation behind what’s found in the latest Kindle Paperwhite) and once again comes with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage. Although Boox hasn’t shared specific details, it says the new Palma 2 now runs a “faster octa-core CPU,” which will hopefully help speed up the new e-reader’s interface. It also runs Android 13 instead of Android 11. That’s still a few generations behind the latest version …