We Saw The Next Boox Palma And… Is That A Color E Ink Screen And Cellular Connectivity?

Boox isn’t rather fresh to uncover everything astir its adjacent Palma e-reader, but we sewage 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 early look astatine its adjacent Palma smartphone-sized e-reader. The institution wasn’t yet consenting to divulge immoderate method specs. Still, nan caller Palma appears to characteristic a colour E Ink screen, and nan device’s position barroom besides shows a 4G+ LTE cellular connection, seemingly indicating nan adjacent Palma could besides beryllium a fully-functional smartphone.

The 2 previous versions of nan Android-powered Boox Palma some characteristic a 6.13-inch achromatic and achromatic e-paper screen, but Boox was 1 of nan 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 nan astir requested characteristic amongst Palma fans. The pocketable e-readers person only offered Wi-Fi connectivity truthful far. Their functionality has travel adjacent to replicating an Android phone, featuring dual microphones and moreover a camera connected nan back. But you suffer connectivity if you time off nan location without a hotspot. 

It’s not yet known if nan adjacent Palma will see a SIM paper tray, trust connected eSim, aliases what cellular networks it will beryllium compatible with. But for illustration nan 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 still isn’t easy connected nan eyes) aliases amended artillery life.