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The Boox Palma 2 has a faster processor and adds a fingerprint reader

The Boox Palma 2 e-reader pictured in black and white colorways.
The Boox Palma 2 features a faster processor and a fingerprint reader. | Image: Boox

Boox has announced the Palma 2, the next version of its popular smartphone-sized e-reader. The Palma 2 addresses some of the original’s shortcomings, with a faster processor to address the original’s laggy interface and by running a newer version of Android.

The new Boox Palma 2 is available for preorder today in ivory white or deep cyan black for $279.99, which is exactly the same price as the original. That’s still more expensive than premium e-readers, including the recently announced $199.99 Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition, which features a much larger screen and a more polished interface than the original Palma.

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The original Palma ran on Android 11, but the new Palma 2 will debut with Android…

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