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

Boox has announced the Palma 2, the adjacent mentation of its fashionable smartphone-sized e-reader. The Palma 2 addresses immoderate of the original’s shortcomings, with a faster processor to code the original’s laggy interface and by moving a newer mentation of Android.

The caller Boox Palma 2 is available for preorder today successful ivory achromatic oregon heavy cyan achromatic for $279.99, which is precisely the aforesaid terms arsenic the original. That’s inactive much costly than premium e-readers, including the recently announced $199.99 Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, which features a overmuch larger surface and a much polished interface than the archetypal Palma.

But it was the Palma’s compact size and entree to thousands of apps that helped it go a fashionable Kindle and Kobo alternative, and Boox isn’t messing with that look for the Palma 2. It features the aforesaid 6.13-inch 300ppi E Ink Carta 1200 surface arsenic the archetypal (a procreation down what’s recovered successful the latest Kindle Paperwhite) and erstwhile again comes with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.

Although Boox hasn’t shared circumstantial details, it says the caller Palma 2 present runs a “faster octa-core CPU,” which volition hopefully assistance velocity up the caller e-reader’s interface. It besides runs Android 13 alternatively of Android 11. That’s inactive a fewer generations down the latest mentation of Android, but it means the Palma 2 volition get newer features similar improved copying and pasting. It should besides springiness the e-reader a fewer much years implicit the archetypal earlier apps halt supporting its mentation of the OS.

The different notable upgrade for the Palma 2 is the summation of a fingerprint sensor integrated into its powerfulness button, making it easier to unafraid the instrumentality portion inactive being capable to rapidly unlock it with conscionable 1 hand.

Although leaked images from earlier this week suggested Boox could beryllium eliminating cameras from its smartphone-sized e-readers, that was lone the lawsuit for a mentation of the Palma constricted to China. The Palma 2 has the aforesaid 16MP rear camera with flash arsenic the original, which the institution suggests is utile for digitizing documents.

Alongside the Palma 2, Boox besides announced 2 caller e-paper note-taking devices. The 10.3-inch Note Air4 C features the latest-gen Kaleido 3 colour E Ink show with improved refresh rates and an octa-core processor that Boox says makes the tablet 50 percent faster than the previous model. The $499.99 Note Air4 C besides runs Android 13 and has a caller “tablet-like UI” that the institution says makes it easier to customize its homescreen and signifier apps.

The caller Boox Note Max is simply a black-and-white, stylus-capable tablet featuring a larger 13.3-inch E Ink Carta 1300 show powered by a 2.8GHz octa-core CPU. At conscionable 4.6 millimeters thick, the Note Max is astir fractional arsenic heavy arsenic the Boox Palma 2. But dissimilar Boox’s different 2 devices introduced today, it won’t beryllium disposable for preorder from the company’s online store for a fewer much weeks.