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The ONYX BOOX Note Air 2 is an e-book reader with an enlarged screen in a thin metal case. The model is equipped with a 10.3” E Ink Carta display and has a front light and a dual touch control. Thanks to this screen, the E reader is ideal for working with large-format documents, including files in PDF and DjVu formats. The model is based on the Android 11 operating system, which allows you to install and use third-party apps and significantly expands the functionality of the device. A built-in Wi-Fi module allows you to use various network services, and Bluetooth support allows users to connect external devices. The body of the device is made of light and durable aluminum-magnesium alloy, its screen is covered with Asahi protective glass. The wide side allows you to hold the device comfortably with one hand while reading for a long time.

If you"re looking to buy an e-reader, you should wait a little longer. Color e-reader screens, like E Ink"s Advanced Color e-Paper version 2 (ACeP v2 or Gallery 4100) and TCL"s Nxtpaper technologies, may revolutionize how we read ebooks in 2022 and beyond. So, if you"re wondering why you should wait, here are the top six backlight-free technologies that will change how we read in the near future.

E Ink"s Gallery 4100 e-paper technology is unusual because it has vibrant colors and can quickly refresh black-and-white text. However, many unanswered questions remain regarding its availability, technical specifications, and cost. Fortunately,

E Ink"s Associate Vice President, Timothy O"Malley, shared details on E Ink"s upcoming Gallery 4100 color E Ink display during a January 2022 interview.

While E Ink refers to its color E Ink technology as Advanced Color ePaper (ACeP v2), its working title is Gallery 4100. Gallery 4100"s name will likely change in the future when it reaches consumers. Currently, Gallery 4100 is only available as a development kit.

As of 2022, the closest you can get to Gallery 4100 is the 13.3-inch Atelier development kit, which costs $800. Otherwise, there"s no information on when ACeP v2 technology will reach ereaders.

"The refresh rate is impacted by the number of particles being moved within a capsule or Microcup®. In the video you referenced, the black and white images are only requiring the black and white particles to move, not the full four that are contained within the capsule."

The video mentioned in the quote refers to a now-removed clip demonstrating ACeP v2"s color and black-and-white capabilities. The missing video showed that ACeP v2 can turn black-and-white pages similar in speed to Carta panels.

In 2022, Tim O"Malley further elaborated on ACeP"s fast refresh capabilities. While Gallery 4100 uses four pigments to generate color images, it only uses two colors to generate blacks. In other words, Gallery 4100 can rapidly increase refresh speeds by computationally simplifying the image it"s drawing. A black-and-white image has less complexity relative to color, so Gallery 4100 can render it more quickly.

The added complexity causes the slower refresh speeds since whenever a color image is displayed on screen, the hardware arranges cyan, magenta, yellow, and white (CMYW) in elaborate and complicated combinations, which constitute an image. A black-and-white panel only needs to arrange two pigments on the screen. The reduced complexity means faster page turns, although color refreshes take considerably longer to refresh.

The added complexity may mean that ACeP v2 requires beefier hardware and more expensive manufacturing processes. As a result, early ACeP panels could cost a significant amount more than black-and-white E Ink. ACeP development kits, which are already available in digital signage products, cost hundreds of dollars.

If that"s an indication of what a consumer e-reader would cost, then it may remain unaffordable. However, if any color reflective screen ever makes its way into a Kindle, it"ll likely be ACeP because of its high color saturation and fast refreshes for black-and-white text. These characteristics make ACeP perfect for reading textbooks and comic books.

O"Malley declined to comment on the price, dimensions, or release date. However, we know that Gallery 4100 will cost more than a black and white E Ink display due to its complexity. The exact price difference, unfortunately, remains unknown.

E Ink Kaleido uses color-filter array (CFA) technology to generate color. A CFA is a thin layer of colored polymer filter stretched over another panel, usually an electrophoretic panel, like E Ink. The multiple layers create a full-color display, although with diminished resolution compared to a standard E Ink panel. Unfortunately, CFA"s colors also aren"t visually appealing and have the appearance of Jet-Puffed Fruity Marshmallows.

Today"s best CFA panels have a color depth of somewhere around 4,096 colors, or High Color. However, besides having a limited color palette, Kaleido Plus panels have low color saturation. In other words, colors look washed out. However, in our review of the Onyx Boox Nova 3 Color, even with reduced resolution and weak color saturation, the e-reader isn"t bad. Unfortunately, it lacks the vibrancy you"d expect of a Kindle.

DES technology looks an awful lot like E Ink Kaleido, except its color saturation is higher, and it costs less. DES uses a novel latticework of "cofferdams" for its black-and-white layer and a red-blue-green CFA layer to generate color. Because DES technology uses fewer elements in its display stack, it also has higher color saturation. Furthermore, because it"s simpler compared to E Ink, it"s also less expensive.

We reviewed an early color DES panel on the Reinkstone R1 color e-reader in 2021. While the color saturation is markedly richer than Kaleido, the DES panel suffered from numerous teething issues, namely a serious problem with image artifacts and ghosting. In fact, Reinkstone dropped the DES panel in the R1 and moved on to a second-generation version of the panel. As such, we don"t know what the final product will look like.

Other devices are slated to receive a DES panel, such as the Topjoy Butterfly. However, since DES technology is essentially a variation on Kaleido, it"s unlikely to make its way into the Amazon Kindle.

TCL announced a new reflective LCD (RLCD) technology at IFA 2020 called Nxtpaper. Unfortunately, TCL"s RCLD technology was delayed numerous times. Thanks to the pandemic"s impact on global supply chains, it seems to have been cast into Limbo. TCL declined to comment on the future availability of the Nxtpaper Mid tablet. Although video of the technology indicates good color saturation, even with the backlight turned off.

While TCL announced the TCL Nxtpaper 10s at CES 2022, the 10s isn"t an RLCD unit. It instead uses a standard LCD screen with reduced blue-light emissions.

ClearInk"s reflective technology is based on electrophoretic technology, just like E Ink"s panels. Also, like E Ink"s Kaleido, it uses a CFA layer to generate color. However, unlike E Ink, it uses a single black pigment instead of a two-pigment system. ClearInk first announced its technology in 2016 but has since picked up partners such as Lenovo and display manufacturing giant Tianma.

ClearInk manages to do a few things that its competitors cannot: cost-efficient color video without requiring a backlight. Unfortunately, ClearInk seems to have fallen silent online despite its manufacturing partners. It has remained quiet since 2019, and as of 2022, it appears it hasn"t released a single product while E Ink has released several refinements of its Kaleido technology. Even so, ClearInk has several advantages over its competitors.

E Ink"s Triton was a first-generation color e-paper technology, but it never stood a chance of reaching Amazon"s Kindle. The Triton panel cost a fortune and suffered from a weak contrast ratio and slow refresh rates. In other words, it didn"t look good and couldn"t play video.

ClearInk, on the other hand, displays color at around 4,096 colors (High Color). This means it"s less vibrant compared to LCD and OLED panels. However, its video refresh rate of 33Hz (equivalent to broadcast television or YouTube) allows full-motion video. Here"s an example I shot at Display Week 2019:

The video and high clarity of ClearInk comes down to the type of black pigment it uses. Both ClearInk and E Ink create images using electrophoresis. However, there"s a big difference between the two. E Ink uses two pigments. The additional overhead of dealing with two pigments causes slower refresh speeds and choppy video.

ClearInk uses a single, smaller-sized pigment to create black and whites. The ink used in ClearInk, co-developed with Merck, is sharper and clearer than E Ink panels. According to Sri Peruvemba, former Head of Marketing at ClearInk:

"E Ink uses a two particle system to generate black and white. To generate white, E Ink uses a white particle to reflect light. Whereas, CLEARink only uses one particle---black---to generate [a] black state. To generate white, CLEARink uses a TIR (Total Internal Reflection) film on the front surface."

While ClearInk"s video variant consumes more energy than E Ink, its power consumption relative to LCD comes in around 80 to 90 percent less. In addition, it can display motion video with a refresh rate of around 33 Hz. A little choppy, but good enough.

ClearInk isn"t a perfect technology. It suffers from issues with image retention, or ghosting, where portions of the display do not refresh. You can see a small amount of ghosting in the picture above. In 2019, ClearInk"s engineering team explained that issues with early prototypes caused the display imperfections.

Additionally, ClearInk panels have the same color accuracy as Kaleido Plus. It"s good enough for textbooks and comics but not enough for enterprise-class purposes.

And finally, like E Ink, ClearInk panels require special software and hardware to create and draw images on its screen. In other words, the hardware-level infrastructure and software techniques used in LCD technology are not fully compatible with ClearInk panels. ClearInk screens cannot just be dropped into a computer without writing special software.

However, Peruvemba mentioned that they are working on drop-in panel solutions for LCD screens. Meaning if they pull it off, manufacturers could simply swap out an LCD for a ClearInk panel without any added costs.

Tianma Micro-Electronics, one of the world"s largest display manufacturers, announced a reflective color LCD panel, known by its project name as Electrical Bag (almost certainly a mistranslation). Like most e-paper technologies, it doesn"t require a backlight but is compatible with the front lights used in most ereaders.

The panel is aimed at the educational market. As such, it comes in a 10.5-inch form factor, designed to read color textbooks. Unlike E Ink, reflective LCDs can display full color and video. But the trade-off is a limited color range and weak contrast ratio. For example, Electrical Bag has a 12:1 contrast ratio and a PPI of 191. It can also only do 11% of the NTSC color range, about half of its competitors. However, the price is low, and they can be dropped into almost any device with little effort.

An engineer at Tianma quoted a price similar to an emissive LCD for a 10.5-inch panel. The educational market, which caters to children, is an ideal product for reducing eyestrain.

Tianma claimed that, if any manufacturer were interested, the Electrical Bag would be available in 2020. Unfortunately, as of 2022, it seems to have never made its way into any products.

That is starting to change. Perhaps most importantly is the E Ink display technology itself. E Ink is a brand, and its 10.3-inch Carta displays are finally making their way into consumer electronics. This 10.3-inch display has found its way into the reMarkable 2 tablet that Ray Wong, our reviews editor, wrote about back in November, and it’s the display that powers the Onyx Boox Note Air that we’re talking about today.

Unlike the reMarkable 2, the Note Air runs a modified version of Android 10, which is why it first caught my attention. You can run regular Android apps, opening the door to a number of use cases that feature-specific e-readers like the reMarkable, Kindle, and Sony’s Digital Paper, just don’t offer. Though, as we’ll see in a moment, not every Android app that runs is compatible with the E ink display.

Before we get into the specifics of the Onyx Boox Air, let’s talk about these use cases. In theory, a device with an E Ink display should have insane battery life. It should also be extremely easy to read and take notes on.

Other writers and editors at Inputhave taken the plunge on a couple of distraction-free writing devices. One of them is the Freewrite, which also has an E Ink display (albeit a smaller one) and a dedicated keyboard. Another is ancient the Alphasmart Neo 2, which performs similarly but has an older black-and-white LCD.

Onyx has actually been making Android E Ink devices for a while now, but the Note Air and the larger Max Lumi are the company’s first that really look like fully-baked consumer products. Past versions have shipped with very old versions of Android and lacked a real, coherent industrial design language.

When I saw the Note Air announcement, I thought that had really changed. Instead of a generic gray slab with an E Ink display, the Note Air was unveiled with a handsome blue paint job with orange accents, and even though that might not be for everyone, it looks like the team at Onyx really tried to give this device some identity.

One thing you’ll notice, though, is that the battery is surprisingly small at 3,000 mAh. Samsung’s Tab S7 has a 8,000 mAh battery, or about 2.6x as much power. We’ll come back to this.

For a device maker out of China that you’ve probably never heard of, the Note Air is only slightly worse than you’d expect after seeing the pictures. For one thing, the paint that Onyx is using scratches very easily. The screen is also set about half of a millimeter behind the glass, and the mask that Onyx uses to paint around the screen is actually slightly off on my model, meaning that if there’s text that’s aligned all the way to the left of the screen, it will be just slightly obscured by the screen mask. Not a deal breaker, but definitely something to look out for.

Speaking of the screen, it’s beautiful to look at but there are limitations. Reading on this large E Ink screen is brilliant, but if you get close you can see the pixels pretty easily as this screen is only 1,872 x 1,404. However, Onyx has also included both warm and cool LEDs around the edges of the screen, which is something you"ll only find on the more premium e-readers out there. It would be nice if Onyx could find a way to automatically adjust the color temperature, but I will happily accept the ability to do it manually over having just one tone to work with. Heck, my ancient Kindle doesn"t even have a backlight.

When I first powered on the Note Air I was delightfully surprised that the company had several updates queued up that improve small details like system UI translations. For Chinese companies making somewhat generic Android products, this is extremely rare. It’s fantastic to see Onyx supporting its products like this, and I hope that other vendors adopt do the same, even if the updates are small and mostly for polishing out small bugs and mistranslations.

Once the device is up and running, you’ll notice that Onyx has created a totally custom UI on top of Android for the Note Air, and you’ll quickly find out why. The slow refresh rate of the E Ink display breaks some of Android’s default interface paradigms, so Onyx had to do some work to mitigate those issues.

One of those mitigations is the launcher, which uses left-aligned tabs to separate your library of books, Onyx’s book store, the Notes section, the Storage section, and, finally, the Apps folder. For a device like this, I actually appreciate Onyx’s approach of focusing on the most common out-of-the-box use cases when designing the launcher. Plus, I love a wireframe interface (RIP Holo UI.)

The next change to Android is just a bit of remixing in the notification shade. Up top you can see where Onyx has hidden Android’s classic navigation buttons (though you can enable some rudimentary gestures in the system settings) followed by some Quick Settings tiles, some of which are custom for the Note Air, like the refresh rate settings. With these you can tune the refresh rate of the display to be slower with less ghosting or faster with more ghosting. I’ve found that Onyx’s “A2 Mode” is nice and quick for typing, but for everything else I tend to leave in “Normal Mode.”

Then there’s the floating utility button that Onyx called the Navigation Ball. If you’re an Android user, you’re probably familiar with Chat Heads and other various floating button paradigms in Android, and here Onyx has deployed the button to give you quick access to a bunch of different handy things like a back button and a button to force the screen to refresh (which gets rid of ghosting if you’re in the faster modes.) You can also customize the button by adding and removing features so that you can keep it tidy.

This is what we"re all here for, right? The defining feature of Onyx’s E Ink tablets is the ability to run regular Android apps. This means that you can use your own e-book reader app, your own web browser, or whatever else suits your fancy.

It should be noted that Onyx includes its own app store which does have a pretty good (though certainly not extensive) curation of apps, but Onyx didn"t get permission from the app developers to use them, so their origin is, frankly, questionable. I appreciate Onyx"s YOLO mentality here, but I would recommend doing the work to get apps through the Play Store.

Let’s talk about the use case that piqued my interest in the first place: writing. Onyx’s press pictures show the Note Air working with a Bluetooth keyboard. E Ink laptop!?I thought, imagining an E Ink MacBook Pro with forever battery life. Unfortunately the keyboard that comes with the Note Air is a generic Bluetooth “tablet” keyboard. I was hugely disappointed to be honest; this keyboard is the technology equivalent of a paper-thin H&M shirt destined for a landfill.

I didn’t have a tablet stand that worked perfectly for the Note Air, so I 3D printed one and was off to the races. Once iA Writer was in the A2 screen mode I mentioned earlier I was blasting out copy like a total boss with minimal screen lag and a tolerable level of ghosting. I loved this, and I think devices like the Freewrite are really moving toward a fantastic, if niche, product category.

In addition to Onyx’s perfectly serviceable e-book reading app that comes packaged with the device, you can download the Kindle app in Onyx’s app store or the Play Store. This ability to bring in basically any book you’ve purchased in the past, across whatever ecosystem, is unique to the Boox Air. The reMarkable 2, for example, can’t access your Kindle library, and neither can Kobo tablets, or any other “dumb” e-reader.

Still, I can"t shake the notion of an E Ink laptop. With an appropriately sized battery and a good keyboard, Onyx could take what it has right now and make a really compelling product. But unless you have money to burn, the Note Air will likely be remembered as a stepping stone on the path to something far better.Stay up to dateSubmit