We reported a couple of months ago that Onyx Boox was developing a new series of Go tablets for the international market, and the company unveiled them today. The Go 7’s major selling points are the physical page-turn buttons and a modern design that makes it feel like you are using a modern Kindle Oasis. It will be available in early May and retail for $249 from the Boox website.
The Go 7 features a 7-inch E INK Carta 1300 e-paper display with a resolution of 1680 x 1264 with 300 PPI. The device’s body is black, 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, and it’s also used to charge the device. It is powered by a 2,300 mAh battery.
The Go 7 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.
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.