Boox Note Max: a low-cost, stylus-friendly, E Ink-powered, black-and-white tablet

The Palma doesn’t have calling capabilities and has neither a traditional display nor a hardware sheet that looks like a phone. It uses a 6.13-inch backlit E Ink Carta 1200 display instead, offering a crisp 300 ppi resolution. There’s a microphone and speaker, a microSD card slot for expanding its 128GB of internal storage, volume buttons that can double as page-turning buttons, and even a 16-megapixel camera with a flash for scanning documents and handwritten notes. Its pocket-stowable and one-handed form factor makes it more ideal for your everyday carry than a full-sized reader.

The inclusion of a fingerprint sensor into the Palma 2’s power button makes it easier to secure the device while also giving it the ability to be unlocked with one hand.

The Boox Note Max is a black-and-white, stylus-friendly tablets featuring a larger, more powerful E Ink 1300 display with a 2.8 GHz quad-core processor. At just 4.6 millimeters thick, the Note Max is almost half as thick as the Boox Palma 2. Boox will not be making it available for preorder from its online store for a few more weeks.

If you want a good alternative that is comfortable to use, you can use the Boox Palma, an alternative that is not restricted by Kindles and Kobos. A new model is on its way, but if you don’t need the smoother performance it promises, you can save a bit on the original today. It’s down to $245.99 ($34 off) at Amazon, which is a new all-time low price.

laggy user experience can restrict any E Ink device from being used outside of reading and listening, as evidenced by the New York Times crossword puzzles found by David Pierce. It’s fine if you’re just scrolling through pages of your monthly reads, but not ideal for social media deep-diving and other visually rich shenanigans.