The brand new Onyx Boox Tab Extremely C is a colour E Ink pill with a 16-megapixel rear digital camera

Onyx right now introduced a brand new pill with an E Ink show able to exhibiting colours: the ten.3-inch Boox Tab Extremely C. The E Ink pill is the primary within the Tab sequence to characteristic a Kaleido 3 E Ink display, which is the newest model of E Ink’s colour digital paper show know-how. It’s nonetheless restricted to 4,096 colours however permits for a better colour decision.

Don’t count on colours which can be as vibrant as an iPad’s, although. The brand new colour display gives a pointy 300ppi decision while you’re in black-and-white mode however drops to 150ppi while you view content material in colour. In consequence, colours look extra delicate and pastel-like, but ought to nonetheless look extra vivid than final yr’s Onyx Boox Nova Air C’s display. That colour E Ink got here geared up with a last-generation display restricted to a 100ppi colour decision, which, as my colleague Jon Porter famous in his evaluation, made colours look washed out.

The Onyx Boox Tab Extremely C’s colours aren’t as vibrant as an iPad’s, however they need to be sharper than the Onyx Boox Nova Air C. Picture: Onyx

Except for colour, the Kaleido 3 display additionally comes with a entrance mild and tech to cut back blue mild. The Kaledo 3 display can also be marketed as extra responsive, so taking part in movies shouldn’t be as gradual of an expertise as they are often on older colour E ink screens. That’s a declare we’ve but to check, although.

Past these adjustments, nonetheless, the Boox Tab Extremely C is the same pill to its monochrome counterpart, the Boox Tab Extremely, launched late final yr. Each tablets characteristic the identical 16-megapixel rear digital camera with OCR performance. It appears Onyx included the digital camera to assist professionals — the pill’s goal market — scan paperwork versus taking pet photographs, nonetheless.

Underneath the hood, each the monochrome and colour tablets are powered by a Qualcomm octa-core CPU. Additionally they every characteristic 4 refresh modes you possibly can allow for numerous duties, like a gradual mode for studying books and quicker choices for searching the online and watching movies. Every pill additionally runs on a modified model of Android 11 and shares a 6,300mAh battery, 4GB of RAM, and 128GB of expandable storage. Plus, every comes with 10GB of free Onyx cloud storage, which new and present clients can make the most of.

The Boox Tab Extremely C is anticipated to start out delivery on Could tenth and can promote for $599.99 with the Pen2 Professional stylus and magnetic case included. You’ll be able to, nonetheless, preorder it now from the official Boox Store. As part of its preorder sale, Onyx can even throw in a reduced keyboard case valued at $109.99 that you may get for $50 with the pill.

We’ll be making an attempt out the pill quickly, so keep tuned for our full evaluation.