BOOXTablet Go Color 7 Gen II E Ink Tablet 4G 64G Support Active Stylus InkSense (Black)

It shipped out from China to Hong Kong then to International transport probably by air.It processed through customs then went to the seller. Paperwork and processing was done and it was shipped. I Received it before the original delivery date. The screen is darker then my kobo libra colour and my kindle oasis 10th generation and my paperwhites. I turned the light up . The keyboard font is small. I'm more happy now that I have done a few things. It's an learning curve.All in All the shipping was pretty normal or within the shippm ing times posted on Onyx Boox online shipping information times and places. So far tablet works good. If Onyx Boox have a better one than this I might get one

First, while many of other Onyx Boox tablets are compatible with 3rd party EMR-compatible pens, someone made the decision that for these Boox Go 7 tablets, they will use USI 2.0 pens instead of EMR pens. For those not familiar with USI 2.0 pens, they have many disadvantages. (1) They have a hard plastic end, so it's like hard plastic writing on glass, not a very comfortable writing experience. With EMR pens with their rubber tips, they have a very smooth feeling when writing. Perhaps I can find a screen protector which will help with the feeling of plastic on glass, but if it needs a screen protector to improve the writing experience, they should have included it with the tablet. (2) USI 2.0 pens need to be charged. That makes EMR pens amazing because you don't have to worry about charging them or turning them one. With the USI 2.0 pens, you have to make sure it is charged and then make sure it is turned on. (3) Many EMR pens support the back end of the pen acting like a eraser. This doesn't appear to be the case with the Boox Go 7 tablet and USI 2.0 pens, (4) I bought a 3rd party USI 2.0 pen and while it "works", it actually doesn't leave a smooth line when I am writing, but it leaves a series of dots. Ugh. Perhaps the pen I am using is not sending a continuous current through the tip, so the tablet thinks I am lifting and positioning the pen on the screen multiple times while writing. The tablet should know it's unrealistic for a user to be lifting and placing the pen back on the screen so many times in a short period of time, so it should treat this as a continuous line or at least have an option to design the behavior this way. These are just the negatives that have to do with the pen. One reason I was attracted to Boox tablets was because it is running Android and actually comes with Google Play Store. My use case for this tablet is to make it a place for my 93-year old mom to write down notes. For my 93-year old mom, the UI is not intuitive. Therefore, I wanted to actually run some other Android apps like a customized launcher. And while the normal Androids setting is not accessible through what is provided by Boox, I can load a launcher which provides access to the standard Android settings panel. From there, I can override the default launcher... But guess what? After a little bit of time, it reverts back to the Boox launcher. Ugh. In addition, when I load other apps, from the customized launcher, the apps are no longer available. In Google Play Store, after installing, it provides a button to enable the app. After enabling the app, after some time, they get disabled again, and I must enable again in Google Play... Or use the Boox launcher to launch the apps. This also makes widgets and other programs which run in the background useless because eventually they will be disabled. Since the use case is to have this as a tablet for my mom, the font settings available through Boox settings were insufficient in making this a tablet which my mom can read. However, through the Android settings, there is more flexibility in getting the right fonts, including the ability to make the default fonts bold. And finally, the tablet seems unresponsive at times, like when I want to scroll to see further options in an app, it just completely ignores my gestures. I have no idea why. Also, to make the screen bright enough for my mom, I am setting the maximum brightness but it drains the battery so quickly. This basically defeats the purpose of going to an e-ink tablet to reduce the frequency of needing to charge the tablt. So in summary:The negatives:1. USI 2.0 pen instead of EMR pen- Feeling of pen on screen is not a comfortable experience- Pen has to be kept charged and turned on vs EMR pen- Pen is leaving dots on screen instead of continuous line2. Cannot use custom launcher, always reverts back to Boox launcher3. Android apps can be installed but are continuously being disabled4. Out of the box font settings are insufficient for someone with poor eyesight5. Setting brightness high enough for someone with poor eyesight drains the battery quicklyThe nice part of the tablet is the form factor. I like that there is one bezel which is used for holding the tablet. It's also very lightweight like many e-ink tablets are. If someone though were to invent a case which is similar in concept where a wide bezel on one side, then there'd basically be no reason to try to use a Boox tablet for my particular use case.

First, let me preface that I'm a power user. I only really had 2 options when upgrading my Kindle: 1) purchase the most current Kindle and figure out how to jailbreak it to run Alpine Linux (and hope it doesn't get bricked at some point down the line), 2) get an Android based e-reader. The latter being a more turnkey solution, I looked at the offerings from Boox. As luck would have it, the v2 of the Color Go happened to be launching the same week that I started seriously considering making a purchase, so the timing was impeccable.With regards to the device itself, it feels pretty robust. The weight and feel of it is premium to my hands. The large bezel on the side makes it very easy to hold and I do like the texture on the back of the device for even better grip and feel. While the weight makes it feel more substantial than my outgoing Kindle, it's still nowhere near heavy enough for me to feel uncomfortable during 4-5 hour reading sessions. I think my own gripe with the device is that the volume buttons feel slightly loose in the housing, but this is being nitpicky. Battery life so far has been acceptable to me. With stock settings the device completely shuts down after 10-15 mins. At these power settings, the device easily lasts weeks between charges. Since the startup time of the device is quite long (~1 min), I only shut the device down after 8 hours of idling, since I don't always have long reading sessions. Oftentimes, I'll read a few chapters in between other activities, and doing this setting allows me to hop straight back in within 1-2 secs. Even at this setting I'm getting about a week of life.When it comes to actually using it, the glass of the screen has a nice finish and the touchscreen is plenty responsive for an e-reader. The resolution seems more than adequate for the content I consume. There are lots of refresh modes and a few toggles with regards to contrast and vividness, and I've found that each type of content has its own optimized setting.Manga: There's enough resolution and contrast to where this reads almost like an actual tankoban. Only downside is when using Viz or ShonenJump app, there's no way to map the volume buttons to page turn. I believe this is an app limitation, not a device limitation. My manga through the Kindle store works just fine.Comics: I was hoping to use this to catch up on back issues from series that I've fallen behind on. This is probably where the device is the weakest. The colors are muted and cause the screen to be very dark. I'll either have to turn up the brightness really high (which causes even more washing out of the color), or use an external light source. However, for my use case, this is still completely passable as the only other alternatives are to use a bulkier Android tablet, or reading from the actual raw books instead. This is mainly where I'm taking off a star, since this was my primary reason for going with color instead of black and white.Ebooks: Being that the device runs on Android, I have access to literally everything. Over the last decade, I've amassed a collection of DRM ebooks from different marketplaces, as well as random epubs and pdfs. I can read my Kindle books through the Kindle app, Google books through Google Books, etc.. I also have a Calibre server at home which I can easily access using this device. I'm able to open all of my books using its respective native app.Compared to other devices, there's a fair amount of customizability that you're able to do. The device is great once you figure everything out, and it's somewhat required to get the most out of it. That said, I suspect that people looking for a turnkey ereader for all of their content might get frustrated. As an Android and Linux user, I'm no stranger to any of this, and it's right up my alley.Last note, I had no desire to get the pen for this device since I have other devices for that. I have no idea if this feature is any good.

So far I’m loving my go color 7 gen 2. I use it as an ereader only. I knew exactly what to expect by the looks of it, color is better than another one I tried out. I like that its light weight. I do wish the back light was a bit better, but I still get the job done. Battery life is alright, nothing compared to kindle. But I can still get so many days out of it. I don’t let the battery get to low either. The size is perfect. After fiddling with the settings, it functions great. I like the refresh feature. I have not problems reading. It downloads the apps just fine.