Good news! Boox announced an updated second generation of their Go 7 Color tablet. (Do not get me started on their product naming conventions.) It looks like a mild software update to Android 13 and the addition of stylus support.
The addition of stylus support means that Boox is the first to make a device to hit the truly unreasonable and demanding spec intersection of: small (7-8"), color epaper display, frontlight, SD card slot, Android apps, Bluetooth/Wifi, and hand-written notes. We've had the technology, folks, it's just taken a while for someone to integrate it! Surprisingly, it doesn't seem to use a standard Wacom EMR digitizer — the stylus they sell for it has a USB-C port and needs to be charged. Maybe that's just the tradeoff they made for having a frontlight?
All these Android-based epaper tablets are truly embarrassing in terms of Android OS versions. A brand new device on 13, two versions behind? Please, I'm begging you, hire another Android engineer. I will pay more for the device if you port your custom support and OS skin up to the current OS/API version.
No word yet on release date. shop.boox.com/products/go7 infosec.town/notes/a23x0gnyytc2hwf4
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