Onyx Boox has unveiled a modern e-reader that doubles as a lightweight notebook. The Go 7 Color Gen 2 has a full-color reading experience and physical page-turn buttons to quickly read e-books. It has Google Android 13 and full access to the Play Store. This is an international release, so it will be available in all markets. Pricing and release date are pending, so there is no word on how much it will cost.
The Go 7 Color Gen 2 features a 7-inch E INK Kaleido 3 color e-paper display. The black and white resolution is 1680 x 1264 with 300 PPI, while the color resolution is 150. The device’s body is white, and the screen is flush with the bezel and protected by a layer of glass. It has white and amber LED lights that read in the dark. The front-lit display and color temperature system can be mixed to provide a tremendous reading experience. A G-sensor will automatically switch the orientation from portrait to landscape mode.
Underneath the hood is an Octa-core processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of internal storage. If this is not enough space to house your audiobooks, e-books, comics, or PDF files, an SD card is capable of an additional 1 TB. There is a single speaker, so if you want to listen to music or audiobooks, you will want to take advantage of wireless earbuds or headphones thanks to the Bluetooth 5.1 support. Surf the web or download apps via WIFI. A USB-C port is available to transfer content to the Go 7 Color Gen 2, and it’s also used to charge the device. It is powered by a 2,300 mAh battery.
The Go 7 Color Gen 2 runs Google Android 13 and has full access to Google Play Services and the Google Play Store. This is an international release so that it will support all of the major languages. If you prefer to sideload your content, it supports PDF, CAJ, DJVU, CBR, CBZ, EPUB, EPUB3, AZW3, MOBI, TXT, DOC, DOCX, FB2, CHM, RTF, HTML, ZIP, PRC, PPT, and PPTX.
If the price is right, I think this device will be very popular. The Go 7 with a black-and-white e-paper display is $249, so this device will likely range from $299 to $349. It will likely compete against the Kobo Libra Colour and the Kindle Colorsoft.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.