The Boox Palma 3 gets stylus support and a sleek redesign

Nearly 2 years aft the last update to Boox’s smartphone-sized black-and-white e-reader, the institution announced the Palma 3 pinch a sleek redesign, caller functionality, and a fistful of different mini updates that whitethorn warrant its important value bump depending connected really you scheme to usage it. While the Palma 2 launched successful 2024 for $279.99, the Palma 3 will beryllium $339.99 and is expected to beryllium “available soon.”

The astir evident upgrade for the Palma 3 is the hardware itself. It still features the aforesaid 6.13-inch, 300ppi E Ink Carta surface arsenic its predecessor (which is now rather a fewer years old), but it’s wrapped successful a caller anodized aluminum framework pinch a paperlike fiberglass backplate. The Palma 3 looks for illustration a important upgrade to the Palma line, moreover if nether the hood you’ll find much of the same. The pocketable e-reader is powered by a Qualcomm Q-6690 octa-core processor pinch 6GB of RAM and 128GB of retention expandable pinch a microSD card. It besides includes a 3950mAh rechargeable battery, a 16-megapixel camera connected the back, and a fingerprint scholar successful the powerfulness button.

The original Palma and the Palma 2 came pinch Android 11 and Android 13, respectively, but the caller Palma 3 ships pinch Android 16, which is conscionable 1 procreation down the latest type of the OS. That should thief it consciousness for illustration a much modern mobile device. And for illustration the color surface Palma 2 Pro, the Palma 3 supports the Boox InkSense Plus progressive stylus truthful you tin usage the e-reader arsenic a integer notepad pinch your preferred note-taking app. But it’s not included. The stylus is an optional upgrade that will adhd different $46 to the costs of the Palma 3, pushing it person to the value of premium e-notes for illustration the Remarkable Paper Pure.