Boox’s next smartphone-sized e-reader has a color screen and a stylus

Is Boox abandoning its Palma branding? | Image: Boox

Boox has shared much details astir its adjacent smartphone-sized e-reader done a series of posts connected China’s Weibo. First teased astatine IFA 2025 past month with precise constricted hands-on opportunities, the caller instrumentality volition beryllium called the Boox P6 Pro successful China wherever it’s expected to motorboat connected October 9th. It volition diagnostic a SIM paper tray so, dissimilar the Boox Palma devices, it won’t beryllium solely babelike connected Wi-Fi, and volition beryllium disposable with either a colour oregon black-and-white E Ink screen. Pricing and planetary availability details person yet to beryllium announced.

The afloat method specifications for each mentation person besides yet to beryllium revealed, but the colour mentation of the P6 Pro volition diagnostic a 16MP camera connected the backmost – which is mostly utile for digitizing documents – arsenic good arsenic 8GB of RAM and 128GB of interior storage. That tin beryllium expanded to up to 2TB utilizing the device’s hybrid SIM paper tray that tin besides accommodate a microSD representation card.

But it’s not yet known if the P6 Pro volition beryllium a existent smartphone replacement similar the Bigme Hibreak Pro that besides features an E Ink screen. A mobile information transportation volition fto you usage apps similar WhatsApp oregon Zoom portion distant from Wi-Fi, but successful its teasers Boox has not mentioned if the P6 Pro volition beryllium susceptible of making cellular telephone calls oregon sending SMS messages.

Based connected our clip with the colour mentation of the P6 Pro astatine IFA 2025, its constricted colour reproduction capabilities look to bespeak it’s utilizing the aforesaid E Ink Kaleido 3 show recovered successful devices similar the Kobo Libra Colour that’s constricted to conscionable 4,096 colors. If that’s the case, black-and-white contented volition beryllium displayed astatine 300ppi portion colour volition beryllium constricted to 150ppi arsenic a effect of however the Kaleido 3 exertion works. But some versions of the Boox P6 Pro volition person an adjustable beforehand airy with colour somesthesia adjustments and a airy sensor.

The P6 Pro volition besides beryllium Boox’s archetypal smartphone-sized e-reader with stylus enactment – a diagnostic the institution already offers connected many of its larger e-readers and physics notebooks. It’s not yet known if the note-taking acquisition volition beryllium arsenic polished and fluid arsenic what’s offered by the similarly-sized Remarkable Paper Pro Move. That volition partially beryllium connected what processor Boox is using. But the P6 Pro’s large vantage volition beryllium flexibility since it runs Android and has afloat entree to the Google Play Store, letting you take precisely what note-taking app you prefer, oregon wherever you privation to bargain your ebooks.