A cheaper, weirder e-reader alternative to the Boox Palma

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It seems similar everyone is enamored with the Boox Palma, including our ain David Pierce, but astatine $280, it’s costly for an e-reader. For different enactment that mirrors larger e-readers but successful a tiny and cheaper package, John Moltz has taken a look astatine the $125 Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm Plus over connected Six Colors.

There are immoderate notable compromises, similar a reflective surface that volition perchance person users struggling to dodge glare, ordering disconnected of AliExpress, and a dated Android 11 OS that isn’t afloat translated from Chinese to English.

The show is besides a fewer years down the 300ppi e-paper panels you present get connected Kindles, Kobos, and adjacent the Boox Palma, featuring a 5.84-inch E Ink surface with conscionable 276ppi of resolution. The InkPalm Plus besides has conscionable 2GB of RAM, 64GB of storage, and a 2250mAh battery, compared to the Palma’s 6GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, and 3,950mAh battery.

The Boox Palma’s retention tin beryllium further expanded utilizing a microSD card, and it boasts a microphone and 16MP camera, but arsenic Moltz points out, you’re astir apt not going to usage these for capturing oregon adjacent watching videos.

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