The Tab Mini C uses an unspecified 8-core, 2GHz processor, similar to the Tab Ultra C. It has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, which is plenty of space if you want to read standard books, though color content typically consumes more storage. For a tablet, 64GB is a little low. The Tab Mini C also has Bluetooth 5.0 for listening to audiobooks or music (the single speaker is not great) and 802.11a/b/g/ac Wi-Fi. Work Profile is a new feature that comes with the Tab Ultra C's V3.3.2 BOOX firmware. It is also offered in some of our models. As much as I hate making this comparison, a 10.9-inch iPad would be a better (and potentially cheaper) investment if it’s a color screen you’re after. Throw in an Apple Pencil and you wouldn’t be spending too much more either. If a color screen isn’t important and you want a really capable note-taking ereader, then I’d recommend the Kobo Elipsa 2E in a heartbeat and you’ll save a lot of money too. This doesn’t mean the Tab Mini C’s color is useless or not worth the premium over a similar monochrome ebook reader. It’s still colorful and sharp enough to comfortably read color content like comic books. Photos don’t look quite as good as shaded art due to the loss of detail, but even this is a step up from reading comics on a monochrome E Ink screen.

Apps are hit-or-miss. Android means you can load Overdrive to access ebooks through library systems, or any of the various comic and manga apps that bring reading content to mobile devices. Not all apps run well, however, and it takes some trial and error to figure out which. Handwritten annotations can be saved for viewing on your Boox device, however, only annotations in the PDF file format will embed the handwriting so that it can be exported for viewing on other devices Having a color screen also means you can choose to highlight text in different colors if you are in the habit of adding annotations and notes.And you can draw in color too. I recently reviewed the Remarkable 2 which is an excellent digital notebook that beautifully recreates the feeling of pen and paper, and now Onyx is looking to move the ceiling for what’s possible on an e-ink device.Instead of the Remarkable app which takes you straight to your most recent notes (which is why I’d want to dive into the app to begin with), you’re presented with several options without any clear explanation as to what they are. It all starts to make sense after spending a prolonged amount of time diving into the app, but I don’t understand why it has to be so obtuse from the get-go. Battery The Tab Ultra C Pro also sees several upgrades, including the same new color E Ink display. We'll have to go hands on to determine if this updated display can produce better colors than its predecessor, the Tab Ultra C tablet we reviewed earlier this year. The tablet has additional hardware, like a more powerful processor, a 16MP camera with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality, and an optional keyboard. With the camera, you can use OCR to recognize and scan text around you. This isn’t to say that the writing experience is bad, far from it. The reaction time is super fast and crucially, the Onyx Boox pen is included from the get-go which should be standard practice across the board. It still boggles my mind that the Remarkable Marker is sold separately from the main tablet. The user interface has been redesigned to make the Boox Tab product line ( Boox Tab Ultra, Boox Tab X, Boox Tab Mini C etc.) more customizable than previous generations of Boox tablets The Boox Tab Ultra C supports split-screen view so, for example, you can have an open book on the left and a notebook on the right to take notes as you read

The biggest selling point of the Tab Ultra C—and the main reason it’s so expensive—is its color E Ink screen. As a comic book lover, I’ve been excited about the idea of color E Ink for as long as ereaders have been around. Though many comics are readable in grayscale on conventional ereaders like the Elipsa 2E, they lose much of their effect without color. So, to test the Tab Ultra C’s color screen, I loaded up collections of Saga. Compared to most e-ink devices, which tend to only be good for a spot of reading and note-taking, the Onyx Boox Tab Ultra exists on a completely different level. This is due to the fact that, unlike its competitors, the Tab Ultra runs on Android 11, meaning that you have full access to the Google Play Store and the apps therein. The Google Play Store is available on the Tab Mini C so you can install other Android apps. However, whether or not those apps will run reader depends on how much processing power they need and how heavily they depend on animation.Files can be transferred to and from a Boox device via a USB cable (this includes flash drives and SD card readers via an OTG cable). Brushes include fountain pen, ballpoint pen, pencil, paintbrush and marker. There are 16 colours to choose from and line width can be set between 1 and 20. The scanning camera is just that: a 16MP camera for scanning. It can produce sharp captures of documents at a close distance, but anything you shoot from more than a foot away will likely be blurry. The scanning app can save scans only as PDFs, rather than JPGs or other file types, though it has an optical character recognition (OCR) feature that can identify and transcribe any text it detects. The Ereader Designed Like a Tablet Tab Ultra C is compatible with 24 digital formats, including PDF, DJVU, CBR, CBZ, EPUB, AZW3, MOBI, TXT, DOC, DOCX, FB2, CHM, RTF, HTML, ZIP, PRC, PPT, PPTX, PNG, JPG, BMP, TIFF, WAV, and MP3. While the price point might seem fine given it’s a large, color E Ink screen, it is an expensive tablet. And the value diminishes further as its performance is subpar.

Notebooks can also be manually exported directly to third-party apps (e.g. GMail, Google Keep etc.) that are installed on the tablet via Android’s ‘share’ functionality. In addition, notebooks only (not documents) can be synchronised with Microsoft OneNote, Evernote, and Youdao Cloud Note. The bad news is that the color variety and saturation are poor. The E Ink Kaleido 3 screen supports 4,096 different colors in addition to 16 levels of gray. That's magnitudes fewer than the 16.8 million hues available in basic 8-bit color found on other screen technologies. Greens, reds, and blues are all there and, unlike in grayscale, you can tell them apart, but they don’t come close to recreating the brightness or vibrancy of LCD or OLED screens. Thus, reading any comic on the E Ink screen is like reading it on faded newsprint. The Tab Ultra C, like the Tab Ultra, employs a 50% thinner touch layer to bring content closer to the screen, allowing users to sense less gap under the glass screen on top and have a clearer vision and more responsive touching experience.However, general performance is just not up to scratch, something I did not expect from an Onyx device – pretty much every other one from ereader maker I’ve tested has impressed. A5-sized) Kaleido 3 screen with monochrome resolution of 1860×2480 (300dpi) and colour resolution of 930×1240 (150dpi)

For video, use your phone. The Ultrafast mode can certainly show animated content, but it’s grainy and choppy. Add that to the limited color support and whatever you watch will look like a heavily compressed animated GIF. The digital eraser of Pen2 Pro has a spring design that gives you a slight bouncing sensation when using it, similar to using an eraser on a sheet of paper.The Tab Ultra C is a good-looking, solid-feeling tablet. It measures 8.8 by 7.3 by 0.26 inches (HWD) and weighs 16.9 ounces, about 3 ounces more than the ReMarkable 2 (14.2 ounces) and Kobo Elipsa 2E (13.8 ounces). It's not significantly heavier, but the Onyx does seem denser than the other two. While the corners are rounded, the top and side edges of the ereader are at sharp right angles, giving it a no-nonsense appearance. I’ve had the Onyx Boox Tab Ultra C for a while and, during my testing, I’ve had a firmware update rolled out. I began my testing from scratch after this update, in case there were new features or improvements to performance. All told, I spent two months with the device before I started writing my review and used the Kindle Scribe and Onyx's own Note Air2 Plus at the same time to make comparisons. Unlike its competitors however, the Tab Ultra does let you choose between several refresh modes, helping to speed things up if you’re taking on more demanding tasks and ensuring that the screen doesn’t get too cluttered with the ghosting effect that you usally see on an e-ink display. Features