Boox’s new smartphone-sized e-readers come with a steep price hike

Boox’s archetypal pocket-sized colour e-reader. | Image: Boox

Now that the latest versions of Boox’s pocketable e-readers are yet disposable successful China, we person a unsmooth thought of what the caller P6 Pro and P6 Pro Color volition outgo if and erstwhile the institution releases them globally. Unfortunately, successful keeping with the theme of terms increases successful 2025, they’re present rather a spot much expensive, arsenic spotted by Liliputing.

The Boox P6 Pro, which has a somewhat amended 6.13 inch black-and-white Carta 1300 E Ink show than what the $300 Palma 2 used, is priced astatine 2,799 Chinese yuan, oregon astir $393. The P6 Pro Color, which uses a 6.13-inch E Ink Kaleido 3 colour screen, akin to what you’ll find successful Kobo’s colour e-readers, is adjacent pricier astatine 3,299 CNY, oregon astir $463. Boox is offering motorboat discounts for some devices that brings them down to 2,516 CNY/$353 and 2,991 CNY/$420, respectively, but due to the fact that of US tariffs, they could extremity up being adjacent much costly if and erstwhile they motorboat here.

Both devices diagnostic 128GB of retention that’s expandable to 2TB utilizing a microSD card, a 16MP camera, 3,950mAh batteries, and tally a mentation of Android 13 customized by Boox. The P6 Pro Color includes a bump successful RAM from 6GB to 8GB, and supports the usage of a stylus for note-taking. The astir compelling upgrade is that these are Boox’s archetypal compact e-readers to see a SIM paper slot for accessing 5G mobile data. But dissimilar the Bigme Hibreak Pro that launched earlier this year, the P6 Pro models aren’t designed to beryllium smartphone replacements with calling capabilities, making that terms hike a tougher sell.