Boox’s newest Android e-readers let you take notes

Boox’s caller seven-inch e-readers adhd stylus enactment for note-taking oregon annotating documents. | Image: Boox

Boox is expanding its Go Series with 2 caller E Ink devices that are the archetypal from the institution to bring stylus enactment and note-taking capabilities to its smaller seven-inch e-reader models. It’s functionality that Kobo already offers connected its seven-inch Libra Colour, but the caller Boox Go 7 and Go Color 7 Gen II some tally Android 13 alternatively of a proprietary OS giving you entree to some Amazon and Kobo’s publication stores portion besides letting you instal and usage your preferred note-taking app from the Google Play store.

The monochromatic Boox Go 7 is present available for preorder done the company’s online store for $249.99, with shipping expected to commencement connected May 7th. The Go Color 7 Gen II isn’t disposable for preorder yet, but it is expected soon and volition merchantability for $279.99.

Featuring a black-and-white E Ink Carta 1300 surface with a solution of 300ppi and adjustable surface lighting, the Boox Go 7 uses an asymmetrical plan with an extended grip connected 1 broadside and a brace of leafage crook buttons. It comes with 64GB of retention that tin beryllium expanded utilizing a microSD card, truthful there’s tons of country to store ebooks and audiobooks that tin beryllium enjoyed done the Go 7’s built-in talker oregon wireless headphones implicit Bluetooth.

The Go 7 is water-resistant and tin past splashes, spills, oregon airy rain, but it’s not waterproof truthful a implicit dunking volition crook it into e-waste.

The specs for the Go Color 7 Gen II are astir identical, but it alternatively features an E Ink Kaleido 3 surface akin to the Kindle Colorsoft’s that’s susceptible of displaying up to 4,096 colors astatine 150ppi, oregon black-and-white substance and imagery astatine 300ppi.

Both e-readers enactment Boox’s pressure-sensitive InkSense stylus for taking notes oregon annotating substance successful documents (if your speechmaking app supports that feature) but it’s an optional accessory that volition adhd $45.99 to the terms of either e-reader.