New Kindles too big for you? The phone-sized Boox Palma 2 just landed with new tricks

If nan recent Kindle announcements person willing you successful getting a caller ereader, but you deliberation nan Amazon marque options mightiness beryllium excessively large for you, past you mightiness want to salary attraction to nan caller smartphone-sized reference slate from Boox.

The Palma 2 is up for preorder correct now astatine $279.99 (around £230 / AU$450), pinch a caller and improved chipset and Android 13 support – a measurement up from its predecessor’s reliance connected Android 11. It features a 6.3-inch 300ppi E Ink Carta 1200 screen, and is outfitted pinch 6GB of RAM and 128GB of retention for downloading ebooks and Android apps.

We haven’t yet reviewed nan Palma 2, but successful our four-star Boox Palma review we praised its smartphone-lite features – including its expertise to play euphony done speakers and its rear camera – while still remaining existent to what an ereader is, each successful a compact package.

To that extremity nan Boox Palma 2 does look to inherit what made nan original typical – an ereader complete pinch nan mod cons of smartphones, for illustration nan caller fingerprint scanner built into nan powerfulness button, and elastic home-screen widgets.

Not a Kindle competitor

However, adjacent to nan caller and cheaper $159.99 / £159.99 / AU$299 Kindle Paperwhite, aliases nan arsenic pricey $279.99 / £269.99 Kindle Colorsoft (it's coming to Australia successful 2025), Boox’s caller merchandise does consciousness a tad last-gen.

The E Ink show is simply a procreation down what those different caller ereaders trust on, and Android 13 is 2 generations down nan current-gen Android 15. This leaves nan Palma 2 emotion a spot for illustration an aged ereader and aged smartphone bolted together.

That portability could beryllium appealing, but TCL 50 Pro Nxtpaper 5G could beryllium a amended fresh astatine astir nan aforesaid costs for your ereader-smartphone-hybrid needs astatine a likewise mini size, and if size doesn’t matter 1 of nan caller larger Kindles could beryllium a amended prime overall.

We will person to trial nan Palma 2 retired for ourselves earlier we present a last verdict, but our proposal correct now is deliberation cautiously astir what you want from an ereader earlier rushing to get a preorder in.

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