Perfect Blend of E-Reader and Tablet? Boox Go Color 7 REVIEW
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- Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
- I’ll be honest: I have absolutely no clue why Boox keeps renaming their 7 inch lineup, because we had the Boox Leaf 1 and 2, then the Boox Page and now this is not the Boox Leaf 3 C, as it was launched in China a couple of months ago, but it’s called the Boox Go Color 7.
But be it as it may, even if the Go Color 7 doesn’t continue the legacy with its name, it’s very clear from the design that this is the predecessor to that line - but this time around with Android 12 and a Color E-Ink display.
So, let’s jump right in and check out the build and specs of the new ereader-slash-tablet, before coming to the display, software and battery life.
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🎬 CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:46 Build Quality & Handling
05:10 Specs
06:38 Display: E-Ink Kaleido 3
10:20 Display: Ghosting
11:46 Display: Frontlight
12:29 Android 12, Apps, Privacy & Easy of Use
16:24 Library & E-Book-Features
18:52 Text-To-Speech (Demo)
20:06 PDF-Features
20:45 Battery Life
21:28 Conclusion
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E-Ink Kaleido 3, Color E-Ink Tablet, Boox Go Color 7, Boox Go Color, Boox Leaf 3C, Boox Leaf 3, Boox Leaf 3 C, Boox Page Color, Boox Color eReader, Color eReader
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Thank you for this review. Love the Cerritos display in the background.
A slightly narrower screen + smaller side bezel would make it a perfect pocketable notebook.
Great review thank you
Between the bigme b751c and boox go color 7, which one is better? In general and specifically In term of web browsing, highlighting in epubs? And which one can I read on it with my room light turned off?
I bought the Kobo Libra Colour but I may return it due to a few things that bother me about it. I just ordered the Boox Go 7 to compare against it. I already have a Boox Page that I bought earlier in the year. I have to say, I am one of the few people I think that actually likes the buttons on the boox being close. It lets me just slide my thumb up and down to turn the page forward or back.
This is great. I have a question, when you do translate the book must you translate page by page or would it translate the entire file? Thank you very much for sharing!
Page by page, or more accurately what you select. So you can select the text on a page and then translate it. You'd need to do that with every page. I haven't used that feature extensively, but I suspect there is some kind of limit, as it uses external services.
Thanks. I tried it for about a week and decided to return it. Partly because it's difficult to justify having it when I have a Kindle Oasis, Kindle PW, Note Air 3 C, Note Air 2, Kindle Scribe and Nova 3. Yes, only one of them has colour but that one does have Boox refresh to help with ghosting.
I tried to love it and it certainly is awesome in its form factor - so thin and light. But .... Even more so than the Note Air 3 its almost unusable without the backlight fully on, esp in shade. And those page turn buttons will only work to page turn with a few apps and not with Kindle. And the colour experience with it I also found to be less compelling than with the Note Air 3 C. For someone without so many other e-ink devices, it may make sense and the expandable memory is great - "32 GB" for my Nova 3 is far too small.
7.8" however, as with the Nova, is a nicer size for reading if less portable than 6.8"; another reason why ultimately I decided to return my Go 7.
Also the compromises we have to accept with colour means that I will accept those for a more versatile device like the Note Air 3 C with note taking plus e-reading, etc. but find those more difficult to accept with a pure 6.8" e-reader.
Can't you just play around with the refresh settings to get rid of the ghosting? Basically just force it to refresh after each page change. You don't have to rely on the BSR feature that is only available in some of the Boox devices. I'm not sure the commotion with the Go 7 not having BSR (which is a battery drainer) when there are other ways to compensate.
I'm surprised the page turn buttons don't work with the Kindle app. They work on my Boox Leaf 2.
@@gsogymrat So was I but despite setting them to page turn rather than the default volume control they refused to work in Kindle. They did work in Everand or maybe Borrowbox but not both. They worked of course in Neobrowser/reader. Others have remarked on this problem for Kindle (see Brandon Boswell's initial unboxing and walk through video). Hopefully to be solved by an update at some stage unless Amazon are not keen to allow it in their Kindle app - though if they did for the Boox Leaf 2 that's surprising, unless Amazon are taking the line that they don't want to encourage sub-optimal colour e-readers at this stage, few of which have page turn buttons. though that sounds unlikely.
Anyway, for me as a device it was hard to justify as it just didn't have enough standout features. Maybe I would have given the GO 7 more time and forgiveness if it had been my only small e-reader. I absolutely loved its lightness though was less persuaded by its 6.8" size
@@lac29 yes you can but you keep landing on a ghosted page so it's not great. If you are prepared to accept the battery life drain, I think BSR is worth having but others will prefer using frequent manual page refresh to save on battery life.
You have to change the kindle settings to page turn with volume buttons for it to work
Thanks , will you compare with Kobo libra colour ?
Yes, already working on it :)
great video! I wonder if this ghosting problem can be alleviated with an futher update? or is it just hardware problem?
Theoretically I'd say it's possible, because Bigme did something similar. But tbh I wouldn't count on it in the short term, because I suspect if that's something Boox is close to finish, they'd made it part of the launch.
@@ChalidRaqami hope there will be improvement through update, cuz I have ordered it few days ago. thanx for the reply :)
So, I really want an e-reader for comics and books that leaves me alone on most everything else. I have a lot of trouble focusing when on my phone/tablet and the only thing that has ever worked for me (that wasn't paper) was my e-ink Kindle gen 3. If ALL I want is comics and books, would this or the Kobo work better for my use case?
Between Kobo Libra Color and Go Color 7 which one you think is better?
Same question !
Kobo
@@abc98114 thanks !
Depends. ;-) Both can be great choices.
The Kobo Libra Colour is easier to use, has a stylus and better note taking features, but without Android expandability it's much more limited if you want to extend what it can do.
The Boox Go Color 7 offers MUCH more flexibility with Android, but that's really only useful if you intend to make use of it. If you don't want to run Android apps there's really no need to have Android on E-Ink.
In terms of color saturation, it mostly comes down to software. Out of the box the Boox Go Color 7 is better imho, but the Kobo Libra Colour allows to adjust the color mode in the developer settings, which helps a bit.
I'll do a comparison video soon.
@@ChalidRaqami Can you please tell me which one between Libra color and go color is better in terms of front light and color temperature uniformity?
Which one do you recommend for an 7.8 e reader? OnyxBoox Mini Tab C vs OnyxBoox Go Color 7? Which one is worth the investment and have SD card slot?
I'd pick the Boox Tab Mini C, because it does a couple of important things (frontlight - which is still very good on the Go Color 7; ghosting behaviour; stylus support) just a bit better imho - which of course you pay extra for.
The only two things that are worse, are the missing microSD-card slot and the missing buttons.
So depending on what's important to you, either one can be a good choice. Personally the ~44 gigs internal storage of the Boox Tab Mini C is more than enough for me and while I understand it can be an issue for larger libraries with comics & audiobooks, I'm fine with just cleaning up the space once in a while or have some things in the cloud ready to sync if I needed them.
I am thinking about the OnyxBoox Color 7 with SD card slot as I am buying eBooks e-magazines e-comics e-mangas and etc @@ChalidRaqami
@@ChalidRaqami I made up my mind to buy a mini c, but today I found out a much cheaper go 7, so I was confused about which one to pick.. But your reply make my mind much strong. Thank you.
Can you comfortably read without turning the frontlight on? I feel like the screen looks darker than other Kaleido 3 devices, but that might just be me. I would want to get one, but I’d rather not turn on the frontlight during my reading sessions
No, without the frontlight, reading on any Kaleido 3 device (including the Go Color 7) isn't really comfortable imho. I'd say a minimum light setting of around 30 nits is needed during the day for this tech.
In terms of ghosting how is it compared to the Cobo Libra Colour? And I know the colors are muted, but how do the colors compare to the Kobo Libra Colour?
I had both. Boox has horrible ghosting, much more than the Kobo. The color performance is similar. (It’s the same screen)
With the default settings I'd say the Boox Go Color 7 is worse in terms of ghosting. But doing a full page refresh with every page turn on the depth mode fixes that issue for static content in the reading app.
For other apps it really depends on the app. With a bit of tinkering and time, I'd say you can get good results for many apps. But the more dynamic the content is, the more ghosting you'll see. But than again, the Kobo Libra Colour doesn't have Android apps ...
So I'd say out of the box the Kobo Libra Colour is better in terms of ghosting.
Differences in color rendition are mostly down to the software. The Kobo Libra Colour has better color fidelity, but worse saturation. With the developer settings you can make slight adjustments with selecting a different color mode so both end up being pretty comparable here as well.
@@frapels Yeah I have a Boox Page, but finally decided to order the Kobo Libra Colour.
Which of the 7" color e-readers is better: the pocketbook, the bigme, the kobo or this one? I'm gonna purchase one (I leaning towards this one or the bigme), which one would you recommend? 🤔
Really depends on what you want to do. In short:
- Kobo Libra Color if you want a stylus, bright screen, don't care about Android and are fine with a somewhat locked ecosystem.
- PocketBook Era Color if you don't need a stylus, don't care about Android but still want an open system for sideloading ebooks and audiobooks easily.
- Bigme B751C if you want a stylus and Android and are fine with the UI-shortcomings and dimmer frontlight.
- Boox Go Color 7 if you don't need a stylus, but want a well optimized Android UI.
I'll do a comparison of all of them in the next couple of weeks ;-)
@@ChalidRaqami Thank you. I don't use my e-book reader for anything more than reading books, documents and some manga, but I like Android because I use Google Play Books and Moon Reader Pro, (they keep synced across devices). I also want a color one to highlight in different colors. I don't think I would use the stylus, and my issue with the light of an e-reader is that it would be too bright since I only turn on the light at night on my bed. I'm going to get the Boox then for the good Android interface (and as a bonus, I saw in a video that it has a good case with magnets that the bigme lacks)
I wanted a device for scrolling, reading or browsing on bed before sleep. I owned a palma for that but miss the color a lot. Text reading notba priority as already have a leaf 3 for that.
Seems like this is the closest thing i can get now? And seems like this is a better buy than the bigme even without bsr n suffer from ghosting issue?
I ordered the Kobo Libra color yesterday but fall into buyer remorse as it cantbdo scrolling or 3rd party app 😂😂 i know my perfect device will probably be the Mediatek900 Hibreak pro or a palma color, but that seems to be at least half year from now😂
It really depends on what's important to you.
- Bigme does a really good job with ghosting-reduction. In some cases I think it's even better than BSR.
- But especially the Bigme B751C (at least the one I bought) has a pretty dim frontlight. It's hard for me to recommend it because of that, because E-Ink Kaleido 3 pretty dark to begin with. The UI is also not as refined on Bigme devices.
- Ghosting on the Boox Go Color 7 depends on the application. Scrolling on speed mode works well enough imho, it's just not as good as on Bigme or BSR.
I'd recommend waiting for the Hibreak Color. That one will hopefully have a better frontlight than the B751C so it could be easier to recommend.
I would have bough it if it had stylus support. Not having a Stylus is a big deal breaker. Buying a Kobo Libra Color instead.
When I highlight a paragraph on the Color 7 (at least on an epub), more often than not the entire page gets highlighted. I tap the highlight, adjust it to the desired length, and it again highlights the entire page. I don't know why. Has anyone else experienced and resolved this?
Yes - that's an issue currently I also mention in the video. Doesn't happen all the time, but quite often.
@@ChalidRaqami Apologies Chalid, I see that now!
is the boox page still a good buy if i don’t need color?
Yes, definitely. The E-Ink Carta 1200 screen is still excellent and features are essentially the same. Android 11 is maybe the only downside in the long run, but right now I'd say there's no difference in terms of app-compatibility.
@@ChalidRaqami thank u💙
I'm looking for this feature that may or may not exist. If i doenload the Kindle app and choose a book to read, can I set the book cover for Kindle ebook I'm reading as the cover on my Boox Color 7 lockscreen.
No, unfortunately that's not possible. The Kindle app is essentially a stand-alone app and doesn't integrate with the rest of the system.
@@ChalidRaqami Thank you. You are the only person to provide a thoughtful response, or a response at all. I will wait for Amazon to release a color Kindle.
@@emcdonald75 I have a Boox Note Air 3C, not a Go Color 7, so assuming it would work similarly, you can manually set your lock screen image (or images). What I've done is take a screenshot of the book cover or download a cover image for the book (or books) I'm currently reading and then manually set that as my lock screen screensaver. If you want you can even choose multiple images to alternate through each time your screen is turned off/on. It won't automatically change based on the book you currently have open in an app, but you can manually cycle through to the one you want if you care about it being accurate to the exact book you have open at that moment. Personally I was happy with it showing up as any one of the books I'm currently reading. It's really fun having the book covers in color.
The case is horrible. I got white one with the device. It's like paper. Slippery and also sweat dissolves it. I noticed even with my first use for a couple of hours there was already damage.
Also their dead pixel policy is not great. I already see 2 dead pixels or dots or whatever (when I turn on light. Really small but light shines trough them - acceptable to boox it seems)
No Wacom digitizer oh no 😢
I wanted to preorder it because I need cheap colour android ereader so I can freely highlight the content, but looking at the highlight error, I might consider to not buy it 😢
Does it heat up using 10 hours straight?
I haven't used it for that long in one sitting, but I haven't noticed any noticeable warming up with normal use. With running a benchmark it got just slightly warmer at the top.
I feel like i'l the only one that doesn't care about colours
I honestly didn't care for E-Ink Kaleido until I first used the Boox Tab Ultra C. Previous generations needed too many compromises for me to use them, but Kaleido 3 manages a good middle ground. But it's really about what you are willing to compromise on. B&W E-Ink is still the best tech when it comes to a paperlike viewing experience as far as I'm concerned.
All the reviews complain about buttons
They aren't bad, but the gap-less design definitely has its shortcomings when comparing it to the likes of the Kindle Oasis or Kobo Libra Colour.
I have the Leaf 2, which also has gapless buttons, and honestly, it doesn't bother me in the least. I can still easily feel the break between them with my thumb. Actually, I enjoy running my thumb up and down over the buttons while I'm reading, weird as that may be. I think it's very much going to be a personal preference thing more than a universal annoyance thing.
wifout Ton, it goes XD ;)