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

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!

Amazing device for what it does! It is small enough to fit in my pocket or a small bag and bring wherever I want. The screen looks great when outside or in direct light as well as when in the dark (it has a backlight that turns on automatically). I personally use this for reading occasionally as well as a device for listening to music and setting alarms. I keep it in my bedroom with me most of the time, and rarely ever need to charge it because it uses so little battery life when not in use. I've had it for more 6 months and really only charge it every other week or so.Also, since it runs regular Android, you can install basically whatever you want on it. I have spotify download, and also a couple light games.

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.

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.

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.

Does everything I want/need it to. I needed a device small enough to take anywhere, use e-ink as I stare at a computer screen for 40 hours a week, and the ability to download the apks from github. This checks all those boxes, the rest of the benefits are just a bonus.Not sure where people got the idea that the battery life on this device would be great when treating it as a normal phone - with WiFi and Bluetooth turned off and casual use (~2-3 hours of reading per day) I only use ~2% of the battery. Of course if you're trying to play music, download, browse the web, etc, no it won't last long.They also don't force you into creating a google or onyx account (no idea what onyx is but don't need to know) which is a plus on the privacy side. Functionally the display is very nice and reads very well with the ability to tweak almost anything you would like.

It's a lot less responsive than the Paperwhite 2024. It lacks auto brightness and auto temperature control (for less blue light at night). The negatives aside, the display is very nice and it's a useful form factor. I find it pleasant to read on. It fullfills the function of phone sized e-reader. I also have the Hisense A9 with similar for factor. the display on the boox is much better and the boox is also light. The textured back make it easy to read with one handed. I bought a protective case but im not sure that ill use it. My main gripes are it's laggy especially when typing and the lack of auto brightness and nighttime controls for the display.

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.

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.

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.

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