- BOOX is launching the Palma 2 and Note Air4 C.
- The Palma 2 offers a phone-sized e-reader option with upgraded silicon and new biometrics.
- Meanwhile, the Note Air4 C is tablet-sized solution with a color screen for your Android apps.
It’s somewhat a testament to how mature the mobile device landscape is that we see such diversity among screens. Not everyone’s in a race to deliver the highest refresh rates, densest pixels, and widest color gamut, and that frees resources up to explore things like the wild world of foldables. One of the most interesting niches to develop has been Android-powered hardware that takes advantage of eye-friendly, low-power electrophoretic displays — ePaper. Today we’re checking out two of the newest ePaper devices coming from BOOX.
First up is the sequel to what’s easily the most phone-like of BOOX’s offerings, the Palma 2. This one’s got a 6.13-inch 300 PPI Carta 1200 screen, which means you can look forward to some high-contrast, crisp text with low eye strain. It runs software based on Android 13, which is a little behind the times but should suffice for this kind of use case. The octa-core processor and 6GB of RAM are probably overkill, but the 128GB of storage sounds plenty nice for saving every book you’d ever want to read — and there’s even microSD expansion for you madmen who need more.