The Onyx Boox Go series is new and only has two different models: the Go 7 with a Kaleido 3 e-paper screen and manual page-turn buttons, and the Go 10 is a 10-inch notebook with a black and white e-paper screen and 300 PPI. The Go 7 is very compelling; it looks like the Page e-reader in terms of design, but it has a few hidden tricks up its sleeve, most notably an SD card, a thin design, Android 12 and full access to the Google Play Store. Only the black model is available now for $249.99 from the Good e-Reader Store. There is no estimated date when the white one will be available, but I heard it could be months.
The Onyx Boox Go Color 7 has an E INK Kaleido 3 color e-paper screen and Carta 1200 for enhanced page turns and performance. The black and white resolution is 1680×1264 with 300 PPI, while the colour content resolution is 1240 x 930 with 150 PPI. The device’s body is sleek black, and the screen is seamlessly integrated with the bezel and protected by a layer of glass. The back platting is heavily perforated and is immune to fingerprints. It has a front-lit display and colour temperature system, including white and amber LED lights. The lighting can be adjusted with warm and cool LED lights, customized using a software slider bar.
The Onyx Boox Go 7 series is powered by a quad-core 2.4 GHz processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of internal storage. It also features a microSD card slot that can support an additional 1TB of storage. The device supports WIFI and Bluetooth 5.0 and has a built-in speaker and microphone. It runs on Google Android 12 and is powered by a 2300 mAh battery. The dimensions are 156x137x6.4mm, and it weighs 195g.
The Onyx Boox Go 7 Color has Google Android 12 and all the core Google Play Services. You can log in to your Google account and download millions of free and paid apps from the Play Store. This is where you can download apps like Kindle, Overdrive Libby, and other favourite apps. If you want to sideload in your books, instead of relying on apps, there is a Neoreader e-reading app that supports pdf, djvu, azw, azw3, doc, doc, docx, epub, fb2, fbz, html, mobi, odt, prc, rtf, sxw, trc, txt, chm, and ppt. If you want to sideload your audiobooks, it only supports WAV and MP3 so that I would rely on other apps like Audible.
This Boox model allows the user to read documents in different world languages. Amongst them, there are such languages as Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Swedish, Dutch, Finnish, Polish, Chinese, Japanese and many others.
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.