Over the previous couple of years, Boox has emerged as one of the vital formidable manufacturers in a section the place Amazon’s Kindles have been the go-to alternative. The model makes monochrome and coloration E Ink gadgets in quite a lot of kind components, from the phone-like Palma and compact tablets to ambient-lit slates and displays.
The newest from Boox are the Go 7 and the second-gen Go Colour 7 tablets. Their greatest draw is stylus assist, permitting them to double as a digital diary constructed atop Android. Complementing the pen assist is the implausible Notes app, which gives a ton of options resembling pre-made and customized templates, brush variations, handwriting recognition, and extra.
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Boox hasn’t modified the basic design in comparison with the unique Colour Go 7, however this time round, it’s providing a brand new variant with a black-and-white panel, as properly. It’s a charmingly small pill that’s solely 6.4mm throughout, weighs beneath 200 grams, and options bodily web page flip buttons to go along with the square-ish 7-inch panel.
One other underrated perk is the devoted microSD card slot for storage enlargement on the Go 7 and the second-gen Go Colour 7 e-readers. The entrance gentle is adjustable on each fashions, however customers can change it off completely and depend on ambient gentle to view content material.
On your visible pleasure, the 2 slates provide a reasonably sharp panel with a 300 PPI pixel density. On the next-gen Colour Go 7, you get an E Ink Kaleido 3 display screen that may produce 4,096 colours, whereas the bottom Go 7 depends on an E Ink Carta 1300 panel.
The latter is monochrome, however because of the entrance gentle array, you may set it to provide content material towards a heat backlight for a extra snug studying expertise. The panel gives a paper-like viewing expertise, much like the Boox Palma and the sunlit Onyx Boox Go 10.3 pill.
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Boox gives the widest set of show customization choices I’ve ever seen on an e-reader, starting from refresh charge and granular coloration controls to format formatting and a rewarding in-built OCR system. The software program gives a deep stage of customization and fast controls, however the perfect half is that it runs the total Android expertise with Google Play Retailer assist.
I extensively used the first-gen Boox Go Colour 7 as a companion system, pushing it as a secondary panel for keeping track of office chats, listening to podcasts, studying books, and hoarding an unhealthy catalog of comics. Ever since I obtained my arms on it, I’ve by no means gone again to the Kindle or any reMarkable slate.
The baseline Go 7 is available in white and black colours, rocking a water-repellent construct and a gorgeous textured end on the rear cowl. The Colour Go 7, however, will solely be bought in a single trim with a navy blue-inspired coloration profile on its polycarbonate shell.
Boox says the Go 7 pill is now up for grabs, priced at $219.99 for the only real 4GB RAM + 64GB storage mannequin. The Colour Go 7, however, will hit the cabinets “quickly” with no price ticket hooked up to it, as of now.