It’s hard to say whether the Tab X is well priced or not as there’s not a lot of competition in the market. This price includes the Pen 2 stylus, but not a slipcase (which the Max Lumi 2 did include). While Onyx Boox doesn’t have an Australian online store, the Tab X can be purchased from Harvey Norman and Elite Electronics for an eye-watering price of AU$1,449. If you’re in the UK, Onyx Boox has a warehouse arrangement with its European online storefront to ship into the country without import tariffs and VAT, but the device will then cost you a little more. It’s available to buy directly from the maker and from very select retailers in the US and Europe for $879.99 / €949.99. Onyx Boox announced the Tab X very early in 2023, making it the first E Ink device to arrive this year. Available in the US and Europe, limited availability in Australia.(Image credit: TechRadar / Sharmishta Sarkar) Onyx Boox Tab X review: price and availability You’ll just have to keep its stylus safe and stomach the high price tag. This may not be a huge deal breaker if you’re primarily using it to read and jot notes, but it’s definitely worth keeping in mind.ĭespite that Onyx Boox has done a good job with the Tab X – if you really need a large-screen writing tablet, it doesn’t get better than this. My only concern is that you can’t upgrade the operating system to Android 12 or newer, which means there might be security patches missing. This is with screen brightness set at 15% (with automatically adjusting hue) and using it to read, write and listen to music at least an hour a day, sometimes more. I’ve had the Tab X for a month and a half for this review and have only needed to top up once in that time. (Image credit: TechRadar / Sharmishta Sarkar)įinally, with a 6,300mAh battery under the hood, I went days before reaching for the charger. Screenshots taken on the Onyx Boox Tab X are downloaded in full color but display on the tablet in monochrome. My one issue here is that the stylus doesn’t attach itself magnetically to the side of the tablet – as it does with other e-ink writing tablets, including Onyx Boox’s own models – making it easy to misplace. The Pen 2 stylus packaged with the Tab X is great too – it doesn’t require any charging or batteries to function (it’s passive) and features an eraser on the top end. The smoothest e-paper screen I’ve written on is the Kindle Scribe where it feels like the stylus is just about to slip away. Writing on the screen, while not exactly paper-like, feels good with just enough friction to give you some control. The Tab X has its own Notes app, but it will handle any other note-taking application you want to use – just download it from the Play Store. I was easily able to add notes to margins of my PDFs, then export via Dropbox and Boox Drop in the brand’s own smartphone app. All documents and books that I uploaded onto the device (and this included some magazine pages in PDF format for proofing) automatically are opened by the NeoReader app and, I have to admit, the large screen made reading comics and graphic novels a real pleasure. That said, you don’t really need to download any other app – the default suite that the Tab X comes with is good enough for most users… it was for me at least. Interestingly, the Tab X actually has five different refresh rates that you can set for individual applications (including for video) and that helps things look as smooth as possible.Īnd if you’ve got existing Kindle or Kobo accounts, you can always download the reading apps and sign in to get full access to your existing library on either platform. Admittedly they’re not smooth, but they are watchable if you don’t mind the monochrome look reminiscent of the moving pictures from the Harry Potter movies. (Image credit: TechRadar / Sharmishta Sarkar)Ĭonsidering it’s running on a version of Android 11, you get full access to the Google Play Store, so you can download the YouTube app if you’re curious about how videos look.
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