In 2023, Boox turned heads with the Palma. The machine blurred the road between e-readers and smartphones, by combining e-paper with Android. The preliminary pitch was one thing alongside the strains of a phone-sized Kindle that’s sufficiently small to slide right into a pocket.
The product can be engaging for a lot of if that have been the one factor it dropped at desk. I say this as somebody who has taken his Kindle with him on the subway, solely to awkwardly dangle on to it for the remainder of the night time — and hopefully keep away from leaving it behind. The thought of a pocketable e-reader may be very interesting.
It’s clear, nonetheless, that Boox has bigger ambitions with the road. On Wednesday, it referred to the forthcoming Palma 2 as “Mobile ePaper for a Mindful Lifestyle.” Hyperbolic market communicate apart, Boox seems to examine the product as a form of productiveness machine with restricted distractions.
It’s a tough line to stroll, constructing a “mindful” work machine. On this case, it means a 6.13-inch 300 PPI E Ink show with 6GB of RAM and 12GB of storage. The machine will get a pace bump with a brand new octa-core processor and a fingerprint reader for added safety. Presumably the latter is useful if you happen to’re utilizing the machine for greater than airport reads.
The Android machine has entry to Google’s Play Retailer, additional blurring the smartphone line. There are additionally a pair of audio system and a 16-megapixel digital camera designed particularly for scanning paperwork.
The machine is at the moment up for preorder at $280, which places it within the normal value vary for e-readers.
