Boox’s new smartphone-sized, color e-reader is coming to the US

The Boox Palma 2 Pro is the archetypal mentation of the pocketable e-reader to diagnostic a colour E Ink screen. | Image: Boox

First teased astatine IFA 2025 successful September and past officially announced successful China earlier this month, Boox’s adjacent smartphone-sized e-reader is present coming to the US. Although 2 versions of the instrumentality are disposable successful China, including a black-and-white exemplary called the P6 Pro, it’s the Boox P6 Pro Color that’s coming to the US wherever it’s called the Boox Palma 2 Pro.

Pricing for the P6 Pro Color successful China is 3,299 CNY, oregon astir $463, but the Palma 2 Pro is present available for preorder done Boox’s online store successful the US for $399.99, if you bid it done 1 of the company’s US-based warehouses, with shipping expected to commencement successful aboriginal November. You tin besides opt to preorder the Palma 2 Pro from 1 of the company’s Hong Kong-based warehouses with shipping expected sometime this period and a terms driblet to $379.99, but Boox’s website warns that “some countries whitethorn levy tariffs connected imported goods from Hong Kong,” and US customers whitethorn extremity up paying a batch much for the instrumentality successful the end.

The specs and functionality of the caller Boox Palma 2 Pro are identical to the P6 Pro Color. It features a 6.13-inch Kaleido 3 colour E Ink surface which is the aforesaid show tech utilized successful e-readers similar the Kobo Libra Colour. Black-and-white contented is displayed astatine 300ppi, but that drops to 150ppi successful colour mode, which is constricted to conscionable 4,096 antithetic shades.

It’s powered by an unnamed “octa-core processor” paired with 8GB of RAM and 128GB of retention that’s expandable to up to 2TB utilizing a microSD card. The Palma 2 Pro besides supports up to 2 SIM cards (when you’re not utilizing a microSD card) but is constricted to data-only SIMs. It’s nary longer wholly babelike connected Wi-Fi similar older versions of the Palma, but it’s inactive not a smartphone replacement.

The Palma 2 Pro runs Android 15 and has entree to the Google Play Store making it a versatile pocket-sized e-reader that tin relation similar a Kobo oregon a Kindle utilizing their mobile apps. It’s besides the archetypal Palma instrumentality with integer notepad aspirations, supporting Boox’s $46 InkSense Plus stylus that offers 4,096 levels of unit and tilt sensitivity – perchance turning it into a tiny sketchbook, too.

On the backmost of the Palma 2 Pro you’ll find a basal 16MP camera with an LED flash that’s mostly utile for digitizing documents, and portion the instrumentality has Bluetooth for connecting to wireless headphones, you’ll privation to instrumentality to music, podcasts, and audiobooks alternatively of trying to ticker videos which is inactive an unpleasant acquisition connected E Ink screens.