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Boox Palma 2 review: ain’t broke, not fixed

The Palma 2 is a delightful little e-reader. But it could be so much more.

By shipping a device roughly the size of a smartphone, with access to all the apps in the Play Store and an E Ink screen that’s easy to look at and takes days to drain the battery, Onyx found a winning combo. Apps still open a little slower than I’d like; page turns work fine but occasionally taps don’t register; God help you if you ever try to play a game or watch a video. This combination — smartphone size, E Ink screen, Android apps — isn’t particularly sophisticated or proprietary, and there are plenty of ways other companies could do it better.

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