There's a lot to like about the Onyx Boox Tab X, even if I'm not sure how to pronounce 'boox'...
You may not have heard of Onyx, the maker of the Onyx Boox Tab X, but the Chinese manufacturer has been developing ereaders and digital note-taking tablets since 2008. TheIt comes with a stylus and the display comes overlaid with a beautifully intricate pencil drawing, so at first glance, you assume it's an art tablet. But while youdraw with it, that's not really what it's for.
But the outer frame has a nice tactile feel to it. The screen-to-bezel ratio feels well-balanced. And the moment you pick it up, it feels natural to hold it as an e-reader or note-taking device. The dedicated Notes app is front and centre of the interface, and as I'd hoped, it was entirely natural and instinctive to use. Rather than wasting time sitting through video tutorials, I just opened it up and started playing around.
You can do a ton of stuff in this interface. You can, for example, work with layers and draw lines and shapes with the Shape tool. You can use the Lasso tool to move notes around the screen or make them bigger and smaller. You can insert pictures, voice notes, and links to websites. And you can use the AI tool to transcribe your handwriting into text. You need to be fairly neat for this last one to work – it struggled with my scrawl – but it's fun to use, nonetheless.
The high-end E-Ink display provides a resolution of 2200 x 1650 which means text, diagrams and images are detailed and crystal clear. The lighting is impressive too: with a choice of cool and warm light, I found it worked well in both low light and darkness. Unlike previous Onyx E-Ink tablets, it also offers an auto-rotate function.
So what about making art with the stylus? Well, you can do it, and it works fine. But it really doesn't feel like that's what this device isThe Onyx Boox Tab X runs Android 11 and comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 6GB of RAM and 128GB of internal storage. And what this all adds up to is the fastest and smoothest computing experience I've experienced on an E-Ink tablet, bar none.
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