The screen adjustments are impressive though, it's very easy to get the brightness and contrast just right, and I love the auto-rotate function carried over, one assumes from Android. TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, FB2.zip, MOBI, CHM, DOC, DOCX, PRC, EPUB, PDF, PPT, DjVu, JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, CBR, CBZ, MP3, WAV The last device I reviewed that was similar was the Huawei MatePad Paper, and I’m pleased to report that the Note Air 2 Plus manages its execution better, with fewer latency issues and improved performance overall. Users can sync their book annotations and notes to the Onyx cloud and view them at push.boox.com (US server,) eur.boox.com (EU server,) or BOOX Assistant in mobile.

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The Onyx Boox Note Air 2 Plus is a tablet and e-reader in one, arriving with a Boox Pine Green stylus with which you can doodle and take notes as you read. BOOX is committed to providing free firmware updates for all models for more than 3 years since the product launch date. So every BOOX user can get improved experiences through consistent updates. There are two sides to any story, and this rings true while testing devices hands-on as well. First, you've got your on-paper specs, and then there's the matter of real-life performance and delivery. In both regards, I found the Onyx Boox Tab X to be exceptional.

There are no LEDs here, but you can alter screen brightness from the pull-down menu, choosing between yellow or blue light and dimming options, which I found worked great in most environments. Personally, my preference is for a yellow-toned display, but the colder tones proved handy for reading outdoors, or in other brightly lit areas. Overall, though, I was always able to view the content displayed on the screen. If you don't want to use Google Play, the Note Air offers a tiny, curated app store of fifty or so key apps taken from APKPure. But I say don't bother messing with that app store; use the legal, current versions of the apps on Google Play. Weighing 420g and measuring 229.4 x 195.4 x 5.8mm, the Note Air 2 is near-identical to its forbear, the Note Air. It has the same spine down one side for holding it in one hand (something that works really well) and is similarly bereft of any buttons. Like most E Ink devices, the Note Air 2’s display has paper-like qualities that make it a joy to read. The display appears largely clean, with proof-reading and annotating always a comfortable experience. Since writing on the Note Air 2 Plus was a positive experience, the device did become my personal and work notebook through the reviewing period, offering the ability to turn my handwritten notes into text, or create voice recordings in the Notes app also a great addition.While Onyx doesn’t specify what processor is under the hood – just that it’s an octa-core CPU – there’s more than enough power there for my needs. As I mentioned earlier, the Tab X runs a tweaked version of Android 11 out of the box. Onyx Boox is always rolling out meaningful updates to its devices. You still get the Google Play Store in all of its unrestricted glory, so you can install apps like Google Drive, Bilibili, Audible, Comixology, and even the Kindle app. Since the e-ink tablet has speakers, a mic, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth, you can go all out and put all your favorite Android apps on there. Some good ones are apps for podcasts, news, note-taking, drawing, cloud storage, and music streaming. And then the nice people at Boox offered to send me one of their latest products to try, the Note Air 2 Plus. Could this device, with all its supposed added functionality, finally be enough to let me go paperless? I grabbed a stylus and got started. For battery life, the Note Air 2 Plus was super-reliable, lasting around a week before needing a charge. Reading for 30 minutes consumed around 5-8% of the battery, depending on the lighting configurations.

The layout of all the functions is very simple, but there's an array of different places to find things. Because it seems to blend an Android system with its own operating system, you do find yourself bouncing from screen to screen, menu to menu, looking for things.A little while ago I spent some time getting to know a Kobo e-reader that doubles as a digital notepad. I wanted to see if it could replace my paper pad as I went about my duties as a local journalist. Note. Due to the fact that part of the Flash memory is occupied by the system software, the memory available to the user is less than the total memory of the flash chip. The same Onyx account, the same book in the same folder, and synchronization enabled are required for book annotation syncing across different BOOX devices. What I truly love about the tablet though is its writing experience. This is the best natural-feel writing experience I’ve had on any E Ink tablet. It’s real time and feels just like a pen on paper. It’s been smooth these last few months and not once did the stylus feel scratchy or strange to use in any way. I’ve taken to scribbling my weekly to-do list for work on it, making notes for any product I might be testing, listing article ideas and just some general doodling.

Yet another strength of the Onyx platform is that you can read in whatever app you prefer, including the Kindle app. The tablet can even simultaneously read Audible books out loud to you and show you their text, something regular Kindles can't do (especially because they don't have speakers). Oddly, the Note Air 2 doesn't highlight individual words as it reads them, something Kindle's Immersion Reading feature is supposed to do. However, unlike most E Ink rivals, the Note Air 2 also feels like paper. Using the home-baked Notes app it’s possible to write with paper-like friction in 12 shades of grey. The purpose of this section is to establish what efforts have been made to ensure the product can be safely and sustainably disposed of. Don’t be afraid to not have perfect answers we want to flag what positive work is being done and will always factor in forward-looking statements where possible. How many of the components/what materials used can be fully recycled? I love the fact that if I’m reading multiple books at the same time, they’re easily accessible in different tabs when you tap on the top edge of the screen while reading in the Library. This isn’t something I’ve seen in any other E Ink ereader or tablet that I’ve tested so far.So it takes a while to get to grips with, but it has to be said, the functionality is top-notch. The included stylus works very well, there's a dizzying array of virtual pen options, and while the e-ink display isn't one of the sharpest on the market, it is very easy to write and recognise everything you put on the screen, especially with such a wide choice of pens. Does the product use any hazardous chemicals or materials that cannot be recycled or need specialist disposal? If so, what are they? Boox is committed to providing free firmware updates for all models for more than 3 years since the product launch date. So every Boox user can get improved experiences through consistent updates. The Note Air3 C's type C interface supports OTG (On the Go), allowing users to connect a USB flash drive and other peripherals to the device. What I did not expect to do was also use it as ereader as the Note Air 2 Plus is quite heavy. But it didn’t take me long to set aside the 8-inch Kobo Sage (which was the ereader I was using when I got my hands on the Onyx Boox and feels just as heavy) to just use the Note Air 2 Plus as my all-in-one device.