Onyx says it gets up to four weeks of use on the 4,100mAh battery. It's hard to test the battery life of an E Ink tablet, but the Boox Max2 didn't need a charge in over a week. Failures came with games, as you'd expect: Anything that relies on fast-moving screen images is going to struggle, suffer, and maybe crash. With Android 6.0, the apps we downloaded from the Google Play store mostly worked. The previous Boox Max ran Android 4.0, which has security flaws and which some apps no longer support. For networking, the Boox Max2 has Wi-Fi on 2.4GHz only.Īpp compatibility is surprisingly good. But of course benchmarks don't really mean anything for performance here, because every action is slowed by the glacial refresh rates of the E Ink screen.
With Geekbench scores of 840 single-core and 2087 multi-core, it benchmarks like a decent, midrange smartphone. There's no SD card slot, but 23.6GB is a lot of storage for a reading tablet. It has 2GB of RAM, and 23.6GB of free storage. The Boox Max2 runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow on a 1.6GHz Rockchip processor. There's some lag in typing on the touch keyboard, but that appears to be more about the refresh rate of the E Ink display than about the touch sensor. It's missing a front light, so you can't read it in the dark, and like all E Ink, it's still 16-bit grayscale. It's E Ink Carta, the same as on the Kindle Paperwhite, at 207 pixels per inch, with a range of fonts and sizes. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Kobo Aura H2O Review Heavier than an iPad, it's not something you want to carry around in one hand for long. The Onyx Boox Max2 is a big black slab, at 12.8 by 9.3 by 0.3 inches and 19.4 ounces. That's when you need to turn to a larger tablet. They're fine for reading best sellers, but for large-format PDF documents, academic journals, textbooks, and sheet music, traditional ebook readers are just too small.
Kindles only go up to 7 inches, and Kobos only go up to 8.
But at $799.99, it also costs as much as a 12.9-inch iPad Pro. But as a large (13.3-inch!) E Ink tablet, it's wildly functional and easily outpaces the Sony Digital Paper DPT-RP1. It's quirky, and it doesn't stop you from trying to do entirely inappropriate things with E Ink. It's a gigantic E Ink-based Android tablet, with a touch screen, pen, and full Android application support. But that's the best way to describe the Onyx Boox Max2. PCMag writes thousands of reviews each year, so it's rare that we encounter a product that is truly unique.
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