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

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.

The Boox Palma 2 is an amazing E reader with alot of features and customize abilities. This is not a color E reader but is still functional all the same. You can change the font, screensavers and tons more. I recommend if you're having any trouble with features, ghosting etc you find a YouTube video to assist. I've been able to read on this reader for over a week without needing a charge & it has Bluetooth as well so you listen to audio books. Fits in the palm of your hand, great device for travel, highly recommend. Android system so you can download any apps, KU, Pinterest even games.

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.

I'm in love with this new ereader. I've had Kindles for over a decade, tried the nook and reading on regular devices, and while they were all good, they weren't perfect. I live in a city and frequently take public transit where I have to stand. I'm also hypermobile and my hands and wrists turned painful after too much holding even the smallest kindle with one hand. This ereader is the perfect size for me. I love that I can read books from anywhere and it's so customizable. I've read 15 books in the last month because I'm able to keep it in my pocket and pull it out when I have a few free minutes. It's more costly than others, but for me it was totally worth the cost. I'd highly recommend to anyone looking for a small ereader.

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.

Product doesn't work. Spent 4+ hours trying to get WiFi connected. No user manual, no instructions, not intuitive. Great idea for an E-reader, to fit in your pocket to have with you whenever you want, but it won't connect to WiFi. Tried 3 different WiFi networks at home, Starbucks and at work. Wouldn't connect to any of them. Boox website does NOT show basic setup instructions for Palma 2, just instructions for Boox tablets. One of the most frustrating gadgets I've ever dealt with. Maybe I got a "lemon", but after all the frustration I'm not even going to bother trying again. You'd think that something that costs nearly $300.00 for an E-reader would AT LEAST have a basic set of instructions on how to set it up initially the box. Even YouTube doesn't cover basic setup, just "optimizing" after you've managed to connect to WiFi and download the appropriate apps (Kindle, Libby, etc.). Sticking with my Kindle for now, despite really wanting a pocket sized E-reader.

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'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!