Boox Note Air 3: In-Depth Review of the monochromatic, 10.3" E-ink, non-BSR, Android 12 Tablet
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00:00 Intro
01:43 Overview and Specifications
05:41 Pen
06:28 Device Responsiveness
07:36 Image Quality and Performance
12:41 Battery
15:59 Writing Experience: Example
17:36 Writing Experience: D.E.S.T.A. Results
20:09 Writing Experience: Surface-To-Screen Distance
20:38 Writing Experience: Surface Resistance
21:44 Device Performance
23:48 Summary
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Shortly after the release of the excellent Note Air 3C, here comes yet another new device from Boox, but this time, its release was kind of low key and underplayed. Initial reaction was not one of excitement, but if we give this device an honest good look at what it actually is, how does it stack up? Well, probably a lot better than you'd expect, so check out the video to see the details about what makes the Note Air 3 worthy of your consideration :)
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Thank you for the review that nobody did for note air 3!
It's strange because it really seems like it's the better device. And it's cheaper!
It's not exciting "on paper" so it's easy to overlook it, but I think that it's an excellent value for money.
I purchased the Remarkable 2 and owned if for a week before returning it and breathing a sigh of relief. I now have the Note Air 3, and it’s absolutely wonderful. I do not notice any sluggishness in the writing from the Remarkable, but it does everything much better and has the best E-Reader for sure. This is a powerful tool and very nice to look at. I read in low light with the backlight low and a bit of brown added to the hue. It’s perfect!
It's a versatile brand but unfortunately with a rather short life span. I had 2 BOOX readers, Poke 2 and Nova 3, and they both broke within 2 years. In both cases repair cost + both way shipping amounted to roughly 70% of the actual value and shortly after batteries died (I mean if a battery dies in those models it won't last even 1 day). They're not built to last. I never had quality issues with Kindle readers and I have 3 Kindle readers, 4th generation 2011 still works fine. With free Calibre converter one can easily convert any format like EPUB, PDF, WORD to MOBI.
Great review! Totally love my Note Air 3... That battery life totally does it for me. Zero battery anxiety. Don't need colour - OLEDs do that better. The improvements for 300 dpi aren't enough to outweigh all the things this tablet does beautifully.
Makes e-ink lovely for journaling, Blinkist, Kindle, chess, WhatsApp, emails, professional notes, reading documents and process diagramming :)
I have a note air 1. I found the note air 3c interesting with some good features but it took away one of the features I prefer: battery life. Your review or the note air 3 makes me want to get one over the note air 3c. That and I like the way the whites and such look better with the monochrome screen. Call me weird, but 300 vs 227 or whatever it is doesn’t really bother me. I guess I’m the audience for this device, heh
Been watching your videos all day. Finally bit the bullet and got a Note Air 3C after seeing all your reviews. Thanks for the best e-ink reviews out there.
I have watched many reviews for this device before purchasing and this is the best review yet! Thanks a lot for going into the tablet settings and testing the reading capabilities. I will be using it for reading academic papers.
Awesome, this is the review I've been waiting for since this device came out.
For the pen numbness, i ended up taking a silicone grip off an old pen i no longer use and slid it on my boox pen. It is much more comfortable to use now. The magnet still works but it admittedly doesn't hold in place as well. Worth the trade off for me though since i write a lot
As I’ve offered as a view elsewhere: it’s interesting to see people taking sides in this NA3 v NA3C debate. Having a NA2 and NA3C I have a vested interest in joining the NA3C side of course! Clearly, the NA3C is much more innovative than the NA3 is. Not much point in upgrading to a 3 from a 2 whereas there could be a reason for switching to colour and BSR in the NA3C from the NA2.
If you have no interest in the attractions of colour or don’t want to charge a regularly used NA3C as much as you do your phone or iPad then don’t bother of course with the NA3C.
Then more subtle considerations - if you want the same best screen sharpness of the 300 ppi Kindles then don’t bother with the NA3. If you want a brighter but unlit eye-friendly screen you must go for the NA3 over the “dull” NA3C. But if battery life and frequent charging isn’t an issue for you, fixing screen brightness on the NA3C is available to something like you get on the NA3/2, whereas for some (but not all) not being able to “fix” the old tech 227 ppi to 300 ppi may be an issue. And if speed and screen refresh is particularly important, go for the NA3C.
Ultimately, if you’ve no need and zero interest in colour, probably go for a NA3 (or Kindle Scribe), unless you already have a NA2/+. In all other cases, however, I think the NA3C still has a lot going for it, imperfect though it is.
Hi, I just received my iReader Smart X3 with Carta 1300 and it's awesome the improvements related to the whither background and bigger size, only 0,3"more but make the difference.
Thank you for the review.
I read in reviews that the color can't really be used without the light and are pastel at best.
I wanted an ereader for the calmness for the eyes. Else i could read in a backlit monitor or OLED.
The note taking is my main impulse yo upgrade because i go through quite some paper while studying and hope its gpod enough to get in a routine with this e-reader.
Thank you so much for yet another fabulous review! And thanks also for finding straightforward words in your verdict about things like the much criticized dpi.
Very good, logical, objective review of the Note Air 3. Since the Note Air3 will be going back to Boox, it begs the question..... what will remain as your daily driver? May we presume you'll continue to use the Note Air 3C in your daily work, or are the benefits of the Note Air 3 (monochrome) enough to cause you to purchase your own? I understand the benefits of the color version of the Note Air 3C, but lower cost and significant improvement in battery life offered by the monochrome version seems compelling for most people.
I bought that for the university best device ever
Thank you for the review, I have 2 days left on my Scribe return period, I thought I could live with the limits, but no note bookmark was the last straw (on top of the notes export workflow going through Amazon or email). I'll be checking out your a6x2 review but with the battery report I think I can do Air 3 if I can't wait for the a5x2. Happy New Year!
i have same with my scribe. it gives stable for kindle app features but in 2024 for e-ink just kindle is not enough. its browser just a joke and you cant even install a calender. I have ordered air 3. lets see what we will take :)
@@brainprism88 3rd. Scribe could have easily been the best by far with some simple organisation / search software, even if they used their searchable pdf export to do it on command so you can search device it would be game over. But no, the most non-negotiable software features for note taking are ignored.
Because of the way manufacturers are delivering products and the current tech race I feel like I am continually waiting until something gets fixed to make a product right. DPI to 300, better interface to get files off the device and into other programs, a more responsive screen and on and on. I hold off waiting for the next product drop or the next product update/upgrade or iteration or model and about the time I am about to pull the trigger and commit the dang thing is falling behind. Each manufacturer has a piece of the puzzle and it makes me feel like I need to wait for a "Typefolio A4X2 SuperBooxRemarkenstein 3". I await that product and cart my paper notebook and 2B Mechanical Pencils around dreaming of the day.
Yes!! This is the review of this device that I needed. My exact questions were answered. Thank you so much. I especially appreciate your comparisons to the other devices that would be direct competitors. I was very curious to see how much of an impact the lack of a 300ppi screen would have on really world usage and can see that now. This is the Boox device I have been waiting for. Now however, I have a huge problem!!! What am I supposed to do with my NA3c?!? The battery life (or lack thereof) almost completely turned me off eink. 😅
Swappa? Trade it with someone who is really excited about the NA3c, but, would rather buy it in person? Keep it as a night reader instead of a bright phone or tablet? Just a few ideas.
Thank you for your amazing work!
What is your personal decision between Air 3C and Air 3?
Which one are you choosing to be your personal ereader?
I wish they had kept the super refresh on Note Air 3. I am visually impaired and the darkness on the color screen really bothers me since it takes away from the contrast. I tried the Air 3 C for a few days and I really loved it except that in order to be able to work on it, I had to turn the light up to 80 - 90% which drained the battery fairly quickly. And it still wasn't as crisp as a b&w. So I am returning it since I prefer a monochrome. But I'm worried that without the super refresh it'll have more ghosting and won't run as smoothly.
Hi and congrats! I really need your help🙏 I am between the air 3 and the air 3c. I want to read scanned PDF and the pinch zoom is very Important for me. I saw a Video for air x ( with bsr) and pinch zoom was super, like on my ipad. How dies it perform without bsr??? (Air 3). Please help me on my purchase!!!🙏❤🙏
Thank you for review. Can you help is it needed to buy cover for it or usually it is used without cover?
On the MDO 2024 i tend to always flip page when taking note because my palm is touching the screen is there an option to disable that ?
This is a great review. I’d like to see a comparison of note apps or something, because sometimes I use my iPad Pro but it’s too distracting and so I’m considering this device. I wonder how I can sync information between my MacBook and iPad and this device
@DanteS-119 - I have an S6 lite with the S pen and I hate using it for notes: even in dark mode the screen is hurting my eyes - and reading is the same. I don't think you will regret buying a Boox ereader if you really like notes/note books etc., as I do, it's a delight. It does take some learning as there is so much functionality, but it's worth it. As for compatibility and sharing files - with the Gdrive of course it is seamless. I simply save something on my tablet/pc and then transfer it to my Boox device - and vice versa. I'm not sure about Apple though, but Boox makes it really easy as the Android system is open.
Well I ordered mine yesterday - £400 from Amazon which I think is a bargain since I paid around £340 for my Nova 3 years ago. I am therefore delighted to see such a positive review of the device. I have wanted a larger screened e reader for some time but couldn't justify spending another 4-500 pounds so soon after buying the Nova, so missed out on the Air 2. I didn't want a colour screen or a tablet/e reader hybrid so until this launched my choice was a second hand Air 2 or the 2 plus (and I just don't like that green colour).
The 7.8 inch Nova is excellent for portability (I do love it and will be sad to see it go) but for split screen work it's too small and marking up pdfs is difficult.
I can't wait - now does anyone want a second hand Nova??
You could pay £400 directly with Boox and they throw in the magnetic cover worth £50 for free as part of a bundle. Shame that Amazon doesn’t offer that. Hope you enjoy the device
Watch out tho.. Boox aren't awesome for returns etc.. Check their policies
@@ahmadrachid - import duties etc. would make this come out as more than the £400 because I'm in the UK. I have had my new Boox Note Air 2 for 2 days now and I'm loving it. It is heavy compared to my lovely little Nova but the advantages of the larger screen are worth the extra weight.
I bought a cheap eBay case for £10, advertised as fitting the Note Air 2 and it fits perfectly, as I needed something to protect my new baby immediately.
Amazon have a couple of dedicated Note 3 cases: one looks good - comes in grey, blue, black or pink. Very thin and with a clear back so you can see the device - but as it comes from China it will take a month which is why I bought the cheapy one for now.
@@honeychurchgipsy6
In the end I went for the Supernote A6x2 , think they are as difficult to send back as the Boox, but based on Voya’s review I took the plunge. Hope I like it as much as he does. Take care
@@ahmadrachid impossible to get in UK unfortunately
Engadget recycled a ‘review’ of eink tablets for 2024. It had some discontinued models and didn’t even mention newer models like this one or the A6X2; didn’t mention colour models. I commented that Boox produces more new models in a year than Engadget produces reviews. I added a link to this channel, 6 months ago!
Do we know if writing latency inconsistency is fixed or will be adressed?
Any news on the issue of writing issue (sluggishness / pause de-pause) ?
But if deciding between 3 and 3c what would you pick? Batterylife is not so important. Will charge it everyday anyway. But the difference between b/w and color and the advantages and disadvantages of them both has me doubting. Thanks!
Get the colour - end of discussion 🤣😉
What about pen tilt in NA3?
Hello Voja! In your experience, with this 3rd iteration, has the device outgrown any of the issues/problems introduced with that dreadful 3.2 OS update that you covered 2 years earlier? I'm especially interested in that seeming trend to force you to need to go online... (Btw. thank you for your exceptionally informative and thorough videos.)
Yes, that was fixed a long, long time ago, but unfortunately they keep introducing random new issues on different models. So the NA3 is excellent at the moment, but so was the NA3C, which has been hogged down in recent "performance improvement" updates issued for it. So it's a bit of gamble, coz you never know what their " brilliant" software solutions will do to which model.
@@MyDeepGuide Thanks! ( They certainly don't make it easy to swallow the tremendous price tag with these. Just when they finally added the storage expandability, the lack of which drew the line for me previously...)
Hi, I had a BOOX Tab Ultra C Pro, but I returned it. Can you look up what the current chargerate in the app AccuBattery is with the front light on 50% and off? Mine was -550mA/h, with no app on and wifi off, that was way to much! I don't know if the Color E-Ink so much energy consumes, I don't know.
nevermind, I saw your chart and your BOOX Tab Ultra C Pro showed only 8h batterylife, too. :/ I thought that I have maybe a bad product.
That Snapdragon is a VERY power hungry beast, and overall, TUC Pro is probably the most pointless product they release last year and one of the worst balanced products in a long time.
@@MyDeepGuide If there only is the long life battery like 1 Week and the surface like a reMarkable 2 and the edges was quite sharp on my devices. It would be so good an useable.
I really like the BOOX local cloud thingy and the Note App, it is very nice, but that I couldn't use drawing apps like Autocad Sketchbook or Krita fluitly, was a no-go for me. And also Android Devices tend to get slower over the time!
If they could optimize 3rd Party Apps and optimize the energy consumption a bit more with a 8Ah Battery, that would improve it a lot. But for 700€ It's to much money.
I did buy my first normal Tablet yesterday a Samsung S9 for 850€(a lot of money but it can do so much more), I'm curious how it performs for my use-case and against my reMarkable 2.
What do you mean by continuous use? Do you mean contenous turning und refrishing the page or just leaving the page on?
It's not clear what you are referring to but if you ar referring to battery life testing, then it's described in the video. For reading, it is turning a page every 20 seconds and repeating this action for an hour, for writing, it's continuous writing for one hour.
@@MyDeepGuide Actually this is what I mean, thank you very much for the answer. ♥️♥️♥️
I have just ordered one of these. I want it for reading and writing. Can anyone recommend a good note-taking app? Prefer cross-platform, secure etc
I've tried several different Android compatible note taking apps. NoteShelf is my daily go to on my Samsung Tablet and my Chromebook. Sadly, all of the 3rd party note taking apps I tried on the Boox Note Air 2+ were awful. The pen lag was so bad as to make the app essentially unusable. If you want a Boox Note Air, you'll want to stick with the default Boox note taking app that comes preinstalled on the system. I suspect you'll be very unhappy with just about anything else. It's a problem that I've rarely heard mentioned in any of the review videos.
Hello, is it possible to write in the ePUB files or just in PDF?
You can make notes in epub, you do not write on a page but you make notes for the marked part of the text. Embedded notes. It's work very well. You can type them or write them, and they are automatically changed from handwriting into text. It works amazingly well (I do them in 2 languages - English and Polish, and I'm very happy about the results in both).
What's wrong with the device is that it doesn't support BSR and the price difference between the Air 3 C and Air 3 is not that high. So it also compares to the 3C instead of “just” to the 2 or 2 Plus.
IMHO you cannot just exclude the 3C for comparison.
BSR vs Battery, battery is what matters when we are on eInk device. I won't be able to get away for a weekend wirhout a charger
Didn't look at it that way... I was very sceptical at first... Still, I think that very few people are going to switch to this from Air 2 or 2+. From 3C surly not... So I think that most buyers are going to be people who are still clinging to their Air 1 or Novas or those entering Boox world (either total starters in eink or those jumping over from Remarkable or Supernote 1 or other...). Might be wrong, but that's my take on it...
After Air 3C, I don't know in which direction should their innovation go. One is ofcourse going to be TabX C, the other possibility to switch on and off BSR (hopefully) to save some battery. Or otherwise just keep going with same stuff with newer android and a bit better hardware... But new innovations. I don't know what could that be... Air 3 is a sign of that... Hopefully they are going to start giving more support to present devices and drop out new ones only when they really have something breaking new, and not every few months as until now... Let's see what future of boox has in store
@153bigfishes - Ordered mine yesterday and can't wait for it to arrive. For me it's an upgrade from my Nova 3 - my first 10 inch device. I really didn't want either a tablet/ereader (tab x) or a colour device - both overpriced for stuff I don't want. So it was either a second hand note air 2/2 plus or this new air 3 with the added bonus of the sd card slot and a faster processor/bigger battery.
At £400 it was a no brainer.
Or maybe they can lay off churning out a gazillion new devices per year and focus on improving their software functionality, which is in dire needs of fixes, maturity, focus, and refinement.
@@MyDeepGuide - you make a good point.
I mean, it is boox we are talking about; making a B/W variant was just a matter of time, as they have plenty of old screens to get rid of :D
I like this one more than the color screen ones to be honest. This is probably the most balanced device of all, between features and price, as it was for the NA2+
Nothing wrong with it... The wrong was in making the Air 3C IMO, and the C plus pro and so on :D
227 is actually looking pretty good. I do wish they’d improve on the writing features, so we can track and organize notes
What's wrong with the writing features?
@@freman75 probably they're comparing it to SuperNote devices featured
Wait fkr a more frefinded versionwith hight dpiand better contrast
Since I purchased my Boox device, I have had nothing but issues with the touch screen. Only calling out for a buyers beware. Capacitive touch keeps going to "Unknown." I have to open a ticket. They have to send me a firmware update. And then it fails again a couple of weeks later. Just a warning to people before purchasing that I find the hardware to be unstable.
I think the Note Air 3 was developed to crush the Remarkable 2. This it does in the most satisfying way.
Have you done any ACTUAL REAL WORLD USE videos on the NA3?? I would love to ACTUALLY see someone show the new notebook creation process?? Can someone ACTUALLY load a CUSTOM template in native format (the RM2 would be PNG) what is the native format on the NA3?? Can I add pages that then use a different TEMPLATE than the previous pages in the notebook?? Does the NA3 actually do the obvious things the RM2 doesn't do as far as SUPPORT CUSTOM TEMPLATES that aren't pdf's with their limitations? Are there any "Gotcha's" using the Kindle app? That's one of the VERY few android apps I can see using on the NA3? Can I annotate / write in kindle books?? Is the actual active writing / viewing area the same dimensions the same as the RM2? The overall device appears to be wider and shorter than the RM2. YES I have an RM2 that is disappointing / frustrating me with it's software limitations. Is the NA3 the answer or just a different set of limitations???
I want 3c
My ideal device would be this with BSR, but make it possible to disable BSR on a per-app basis. Get the responsiveness where you need it, the battery savings where you don't. (I appreciate that may not be trivial, if BSR devices are always using the GPU even in slower refresh modes.)
I essentially wanted an NA3C, but in b&w. 227 PPI is enough for me, as much as I'd love 300. And I prefer b&w over color because many Android apps use color in their UIs or for their text, which makes those elements 150PPI on the color devices. The color devices also seem very subject to strong after-images inside color content in a way that's distinct from the ghosting of any e-ink device.
Maybe in six months there will be a NA3+ with BSR included.
The writing looks a bit laggy