Earlier in the month, the final specs of the new 7.8-inch Onyx Boox Nova were revealed, and it turns out there will be two versions, one with a Wacom touchscreen without a light—the Nova Plus—and one sans the Wacom touchscreen with a frontlight.
Now there’s a YouTube video showing the final version of the Onyx Boox Nova and Nova Plus.
Both versions have identical specs aside from the frontlight and Wacom touchscreen differences.
The Nova Plus is basically a smaller version of the Onyx Boox Note.
The Nova runs Android 6.0, and there’s a brief look at the updated UI in the video.
Like the larger 13.3-inch Max2 and 10.3-inch Note, the Nova has a 1.6GHz quad-core processor with 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage space. It has Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a USB-C port.
The model with a frontlight has both cool and warm color tones, and the E Ink screen has 300 ppi like the other 7.8-inch ereaders. Both versions have a capacitive touchscreen.
According to Onyx’s reps, the Boox Nova is expected to get released in November or December, and the Nova Plus will come out a bit later in 2019. The price hasn’t been set yet but it should be under $300 USD to compete with other similar-sized models.
The warm color front light on Kobo and/or
B&N e-reader is better quality.
To bad we did not see the app store content.
It’s look like there is a blue light at the left of the stand/camera. The seller is blue on his right side. We will see the actual quality.
But blue light with moon’s icon is already like an error cause it’s not for night reading. Very unusual right ?
God! when this thing is coming out?
Probably by the end of the month.
Can’t wait to see if this one has a well and fast android functionality, USB-C, less crash and flicker, no battery leak, no stupid page change buttons! and surly fancy price!
So far get disappointed of all 8″ e-readers.
There is a link in Boox website for buying Nova, also some other retailers have that available online (with astronomical prices!)
I can’t see any reason why it is not on Amazon yet, unless those ones are not retail version.
Can you comment on that?
Thanks
I don’t know. They usually release their devices in China and sometimes Europe before they bring them to the US. It’ll probably show up on Amazon in a week or two.
Now available on Amazon for $350! it’s a little bit pricey!
Hopefully gets your personal review soon.
That reseller always has ridiculous prices. I can’t understand why anybody would ever purchase anything from them. That’s why I haven’t posted about it yet. Better off waiting for Onyx to sell them for a reasonable price. I will review it when Onyx starts selling it.