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Now we have a brand new candidate within the E Ink telephone that’s not likely a telephone market from the eNote maker Viwoods. They only launched a brand new system referred to as the AiPaper Reader, and it’s out there to order on Amazon for $279.99.
There are some good issues concerning the system, and a few not so good issues. First off, it has a 6.13″ black and white E Ink display screen with 300 ppi just like the Boox Palma 2, but it surely makes use of a more moderen Carta 1300 display screen as an alternative of a Carta 1200 display screen.
The AiPaper Reader additionally provides a SIM card slot so it may be used as a telephone (type of) and a transportable information system. Nonetheless, it solely helps older 4G networks. And the bizarre factor is Viwoods doesn’t suggest utilizing it as a telephone. There’s a Q&A on the product web page that claims the next:
Can AiPaper Reader be used for calls after inserting a 4G SIM card?
The AiPaper Reader’s 4G performance is designed to permit customers to entry studying supplies and AI companies anytime, wherever. Name efficiency could range relying on the consumer’s location. We don’t encourage utilizing AiPaper Reader for making telephone name.
One other odd factor concerning the system is it lacks an exterior speaker—that’s one thing you by no means encounter with actual telephones.
On the plus facet, the software program relies on Android 16, which is the newest model out there. You by no means see E Ink units with the newest model of Android. Onyx simply launched two new fashions with Android 15, and most of their units are nonetheless working older variations than that.
One other cool factor concerning the AiPaper Reader is it solely weighs 138 grams. They declare it’s the lightest E Ink system on the present market. I haven’t checked round to confirm that, however the Boox Palma 2 with the identical measurement display screen weighs 170 grams, and the newest 6″ Kindle weighs 158 grams.
So far as specs go, they aren’t giving us a lot to go off of on the Amazon itemizing, however I checked on the Viwoods web site and discovered a number of extra particulars. It seems the AiPaper Reader solely has 4GB of RAM, which is fairly low, and it doesn’t have a reminiscence card slot. But it surely does have 128GB of onboard storage. It makes use of an undisclosed octa-core CPU, and it has a 2580mAh battery, which is considerably smaller than the 3950mAh battery on the Palma 2.
Regardless of being made by an organization that makes eNotes, the AiPaper Reader doesn’t assist stylus enter. After all capacitive styli will work since they’ll work with something, but it surely’s not meant to be a notetaking system.
One other oddity is the truth that it doesn’t have a heat frontlight. It does have a frontlight with adjustable brightness, but it surely lacks the choice to vary the colour temperature of the frontlight.
Clearly with a reputation like AiPaper the system is massive on AI. It even has its personal devoted AI button. It helps a number of AI fashions, together with Chat GPT 5, Gemini-2.5-flash, DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3, and all are free to make use of.
All issues thought of, I nonetheless suppose the Boox Palma 2 is the higher system total for the value, however with the additional options and the newer display screen and newer Android model the AiPaper Reader is actually price contemplating.
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