We saw the next Boox Palma and… is that a color E Ink screen and cellular connectivity?

Boox isn’t rather acceptable to uncover everything astir its adjacent Palma e-reader, but we got a sneak peek. | Photo: Jess Weatherbed / The Verge

It wasn’t connected nationalist show astatine its IFA 2025 booth, but Boox gave The Verge’s Jess Weatherbed a little but aboriginal look astatine its adjacent Palma smartphone-sized e-reader. The institution wasn’t yet consenting to divulge immoderate method specs. Still, the caller Palma appears to diagnostic a colour E Ink screen, and the device’s presumption barroom besides shows a 4G+ LTE cellular connection, seemingly indicating the adjacent Palma could besides beryllium a fully-functional smartphone.

The 2 previous versions of the Android-powered Boox Palma some diagnostic a 6.13-inch achromatic and achromatic e-paper screen, but Boox was 1 of the earliest adopters of E Ink’s colour surface exertion and introduced colour e-readers agelong earlier Amazon and Kobo.

But a colour surface isn’t the astir requested diagnostic amongst Palma fans. The pocketable e-readers person lone offered Wi-Fi connectivity truthful far. Their functionality has travel adjacent to replicating an Android phone, featuring dual microphones and adjacent a camera connected the back. But you suffer connectivity if you permission the location without a hotspot. 

It’s not yet known if the adjacent Palma volition see a SIM paper tray, trust connected eSim, oregon what cellular networks it volition beryllium compatible with. But similar the Bigme Hibreak Pro that was announced earlier this year, it could beryllium a existent smartphone replacement for those wanting a much distraction-free acquisition (browsing societal media connected an E Ink surface inactive isn’t casual connected the eyes) oregon amended artillery life.