Boox Palma 2: a paperback that runs Android

Phone-shaped, not a phone. Carta 1300 in a jacket pocket is the form factor dedicated readers forgot.

Jonas Hale · 2025-11-09 · 7 min

8.5/ 10

Palma 2 is the device we actually take when the only bag is a coat. The tall 6.13-inch Carta 1300 page is a mass-market paperback, not a tablet. Warm light, speakers, and Android mean Kindle in the morning and KOReader at night.

It is not a phone. Hisense exists. What Palma 2 is, is the most convincing argument that dedicated readers over-indexed on 7 inches. You hold it in one hand. You forget it. That is the job.

For

Commute readers who hate 7-inch slabs and refuse OLED novels.

Not for

People who thought this was a phone, and PDF annotators.