BOOX Palma 2 Mobile ePaper eBook Reader Fingerprint Recognition Smart Button Dual Microphones (White)

I'm impressed. Blown away, actually. I haven't been this excited about a new device since I bought my first Kindle (a second-generation one) in 2009, and for considerably more money. The Palma 2 is revolutionary. It's also a truly elegant and thoughtfully designed device. If you're considering getting one, you can already imagine why I like it so much. I assure you that I'm not disappointed in any way. It's everything I'd hoped: very speedy, extremely nice to look at, a pleasure to read on in daylight and in the dark. It runs all of my Android apps. I even like the native on-screen keyboard. Some reviewers report having rushed to install Gboard, but I've found the native keyboard to be excellent. I initially thought it didn't have the multi-clipboard feature, but it does! As far as I'm concerned, the Boox keyboard is superior to Gboard. To give an example of a feature it has that I believe Gboard lacks: when you want to use square brackets, the Boox keyboard gives you both brackets with a tap on one key ( [] ) and positions your cursor between the two so that you can immediately enter text there. I have wanted this feature for a long time! [EDIT: I need to walk my endorsement of the native keyboard back a bit, because the dictionary that it uses for predictive text input is atrocious. Unusable. Laughable. Boox really needs to provide a usable predictive text input service. Also, there doesn't seem to be any autocorrect.] I've been similarly impressed with the native reading app, NeoReader. It's elegant and highly functional. I'd been planning to use Readera or Moon+ Reader, but now I'm pretty sure that I'm going to be fine with just NeoReader, even though unfortunately it's a "system app" that's not available for installation on other Android devices. I think Boox should sell both NeoReader and the keyboard in the Play Store. A year or two ago I might have hesitated to buy this kind of device from a Chinese company, but in light of what our own government is doing right now with the complicity of the tech bros--and also our alignment with Russia, our punishing of our allies and our pardoning of violent criminals--I no longer feel any added degree of safety limiting myself to American-branded tech products. It's sad but true. No American company offers anything like the Palma 2, anyway. They should. My only caveat would be that this is not a device for people who don't like to think about any settings or options when it comes to technology. There's a bit of a learning curve to an Android device with an e-ink display. People like me enjoy the novelty and experimentation, but I realize not everyone does. If you're familiar with Android and like it, or if you know you wouldn't mind learning it to get what the Palma 2 has to offer, I don't think you'll regret buying one. One reviewer here calls the Palma 2 an e-ink phone. It's not a phone. It has everything a phone does except for cellular connectivity. That's made crystal clear in the product information and in every online review, so if you still think it's a phone you haven't done your homework yet. I couldn't recommend the Palma 2 more highly. A final note: There aren't many cases available specifically for the Palma 2, and none of the ones I found appealed to me at all. I decided to go with a pouch-style universal smartphone case with a zipper. That way there's nothing on the device when I'm reading. I'm going to be very careful not to drop it, because if I chipped or cracked it I don't think I'd be able to resist buying a new one!

This is the best e-reader I’ve ever owned. I was a little unsure about the form factor, but wanted to try it for portability. I’m so glad I did because it’s great to read on! I mostly use the kindle app, ao3, libby, MangaPin, and Pinterest. Performance is great around the board. Usually, I get 4-5 days of battery life for my use case (keeping in mind I have it set to automatically enter sleep mode after a few hours of disuse.) I really adore the amount of customization on this device. Firstly, being able to set wallpapers and screensavers just adds a personal touch that my other e-readers lack. Beyond that, I love the e- ink customization settings. I understand why some people may not as, admittedly, some apps seem slow or glitchy without proper tweaking, but when you know what you’re looking for it’s a total book to performance. There is still ghosting, but never anything excessiva that I wouldn’t expect. I have seen some reviews about durability. I have my Palma in a case with a screen protector and have experienced zero damage after a year and six months of pretty heavy use. It has been dropped multiple times and is regularly shoved in a bag or pocket and, after a year and a half, it’s still as good as new.

I will start by saying I love this ereader. It’s such a perfect size, and I am happy with the screen. I enjoyi can use multiple apps on it, including Libby. While 99.9% of my books are kindle books, I like having the option of other formats. It’s fairly quick to access apps (slower than a phone, faster than my kindle). I took away a Star though because it does freeze up/glitch out more often than my kindle. The pages turn nice and quickly, but the size does leave more room for error (my fingers not turning the page even though the page refreshes). If it didn’t glitch/freeze so often, and if the pages turned more easily, I’d give it 5 stars.

Fantastic E-reader. Don’t pay attention to the negative reviews here complaining about not having the kindle app. The people that left those reviews clearly don’t understand that this is an android based device, very different from Kobo, nook, or Kindle. All apps available to android devices (to my knowledge) are available on this device due to its use of android and the google play store. All you have to do is login to your google account (YouTube, Gmail, etc.) and you will be able to download any ebook app you desire. Personally I don’t like the included ebook app NeoReader. It’s a completely fine app, however every time you lock the device it resets the app from the current book back to the shelf. This may be an option that I’m missing in settings, but I prefer that when I open my ebook apps, that they automatically re-open the last book I was reading. Instead of NeoReader, I side loaded an app called KoReader. I’ve used this before on Samsung phones and really liked it. The one negative I can find about the device is the finger print reader. It’s not a terrible fingerprint reader, I just have frequent fingerprint read fails and I just have to lift my finger and reposition it. Not a huge problem, but something to consider. Battery life is great, only if you keep WiFi and Bluetooth off. With both on, the battery drains quickly and will probably only last a day or two. With both turned off, I would have gotten 5+ days, but I recharged it on the 5th day just because I wanted to make sure it would last while at work. I have a Kobo Libra 2, however that has been relegated to the shelf since this device is just so convenient and powerful! I love that I can put it in my pants pocket and take it everywhere I go, something I cannot do with larger ereaders.

I bought this to have a small eInk device that would be easy to carry around while traveling. When the power button is turned off it goes into standby mode so it comes alive immediately when the power is turned back on. There is a good strong front light so it is useful in dark rooms and the Android OS allows the use of many apps, although the eInk screen is not well suited for things like motion. It is easy on my eyes and I use it quite a bit so I am pleased with the device itself. In fact I like this Boox much better than the 10 inch Boox Air which I also have.

I’m a long-time Kindle owner/reader, starting with the Kindle 3 in 2010, moving to the Kindle Paperwhite in 2015, then upgrading more recently to the Kindle Paperwhite (5?) Signature in 2023. All that to say, I’m over-the-moon about my Palma 2 and have been voraciously reading from it daily since I received it a week ago. I’m hemmed and hawed about buying the BOOX Palma for over a year, then when the Palma 2 came out in early 2025, I contemplated it again. I read some so-so and even negative comments about the device, so I skipped buying it, especially since it’s much more than I spent on my most recent Paperwhite, which I love. However, the Palma 2 has been great and I take it everywhere. I use a small crossbody that cannot hold my Kindle, so I’d leave it at home. The Palma fits perfectly and the form factor makes it to easy to squeeze in a few pages as I wait. I love being able to read ebooks outside of the Kindle ecosystem too and have been thoroughly enjoying reading Dune directly in the Libby app, which I could only previously do on my phone or iPad. It’s pricey for being such a small device and the battery life isn’t as robust as the Kindle’s but the convenience of the device makes it more than worth it to me.

Ok so why do you need another reader…. Well this is why. To be completely transparent I bought this for my wife. She has 2 Kindles and reads 100 books a year on top of being the most amazing mother and homeschooling our girls. No TV watched, no other real hobbies, just books. So why Boox Palma 2 item. A couple reasons. Android operating system so no matter what reader you use this is compatible . The screen is smaller than your average reader but is crystal clear. A very small amount of sharpening when Turing the page, hence the 1 star minus. Can search the web and do whatever else you want. Main thing it’s fits nicely in her purse, battery last forever, and if she chooses to only bring this on a trip she doesn’t loose any of her streaks in Kindle etc. Get the cover and screen protector for sure and enjoy!!

Really like it! Very versatile and looks beautiful. It can adjust refresh rate for each app individually: slow and crisp for reading, smooth for browsing. And easy to zoom in, rescale or switch to horizontal mode, so that pdf with small letters are readable. Battery life is good, 3 days with refreshing clock screen protectors and not automatically switched off.

For context, I've owned e-ink readers since the Kindle Keyboard, and been using handheld computers since the Apple Newton Messagepad 2000 and PalmPilot, As such, I'm very used to old, simple, slow black and white devices. However, I decided to return this device within 30 minutes of opening it. Issues: * The fingerprint reader was very unreliable. * Google Play store either crashed or froze half of the times I opened it. * The gap between the screen looks terrible. Devices have had flush looking laminated screens for many years now. A new device today shouldn't look like the display is set way back behind a protective clear screen. * The cost is ridiculous. I paid less than this for my 10.2" Kindle Scribe with stylus input. Yet the Boox Palma 2 looks, feels and runs like a much cheaper, 'plasticky' cheap old toy from 15 years ago. Subjective issues: * It is really slow - as you'd expect for an e-ink device. However, being the size of a phone, and running full Android OS, you can't help but feel that it's creaky and clunky. I've decided that I'd much rather just carry my phone (which I already always have with me) and switch it to greyscale mode if I want to eliminate distractions. I read for 5-15 hours a week on e-ink devices, so was excited for a high quality reader I could slip into my pocket and take everywhere. However, this definitely isn't that device for me.

The product came unsealed with a different wallpaper from the product photo and the screen is stuck. Even after charging and following the hard reset and the factory reset method I cannot interact or do anything with it. I am convinced that I received a used defective product that someone else had returned. This is infuriating as I paid for a brand new product.

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