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Yapyap · Yesterday, 09:05 AM

The Boox Go 7 BW and Boox Go 7 Color Gen II (both were released in spring 2025) have a gap between buttons.

The previous generation of these devices, which didn’t have the gap, were called the Boox Page (for the BW) and the Boox Go 7 Color.

As for battery .. it depends a lot on how it’s used. I have the Go 7 Color Gen II - nice device apart from the colour, which makes the entire device far too dark for my liking, so whenever I’ve used it, I’ve needed to have the frontlight halfway up.

I’d estimate that with wifi off (reading offline) and frontlight halfway up, I’ve got around 15 hours of reading time before charging it (this means battery dropping down to somewhere below 40%, low enough that I’ve wanted to charge it in order to not have to bother with it during reading the next book).

I’d think that the BW version, which likely needs the frontlight on less often / lower brightness, would get around 20 hours of reading time with wifi off.

I only have the wifi on for downloading a book (as I’ve only really used that Boox for library and subscription apps, so .. wifi on, browse for the next book, open it in the appropriate app, wifi off, read offline). I’ve set “turn off” at 2 days / 48 hours idle; when I’m reading on a regular basis, I don’t have it turning off but just let it stay on standby/sleep.

It takes a bit more battery power than dedicated e-readers do when on standby, but turning it on from “off” takes some time so I don’t like doing that every time (plus when it’s been “off”, it opens at the home/library/apps screen, not in the book I was reading; if it’s been on standby, it opens right back into the app/book).

It goes through battery quite fast at the very beginning - when you first turn it on, look around, tweak the various settings (and learn to know/use them), download the apps you need, download a system update, let it update etc. I understand Boox official say is that it takes more battery for the first day or two after a system update or when you first get it, as it runs various background processes to optimise stuff or what not, which it won’t do later on during regular use.

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Yapyap Guru Posts: 978 Karma: 5555555 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Estonia Device: Kindle Oasis 2, Boox Go 7 Colour Gen II, Boox Go 10.3	The Boox Go 7 BW and Boox Go 7 Color Gen II (both were released in spring 2025) have a gap between buttons. The previous generation of these devices, which didn’t have the gap, were called the Boox Page (for the BW) and the Boox Go 7 Color. As for battery .. it depends a lot on how it’s used. I have the Go 7 Color Gen II - nice device apart from the colour, which makes the entire device far too dark for my liking, so whenever I’ve used it, I’ve needed to have the frontlight halfway up. I’d estimate that with wifi off (reading offline) and frontlight halfway up, I’ve got around 15 hours of reading time before charging it (this means battery dropping down to somewhere below 40%, low enough that I’ve wanted to charge it in order to not have to bother with it during reading the next book). I’d think that the BW version, which likely needs the frontlight on less often / lower brightness, would get around 20 hours of reading time with wifi off. I only have the wifi on for downloading a book (as I’ve only really used that Boox for library and subscription apps, so .. wifi on, browse for the next book, open it in the appropriate app, wifi off, read offline). I’ve set “turn off” at 2 days / 48 hours idle; when I’m reading on a regular basis, I don’t have it turning off but just let it stay on standby/sleep. It takes a bit more battery power than dedicated e-readers do when on standby, but turning it on from “off” takes some time so I don’t like doing that every time (plus when it’s been “off”, it opens at the home/library/apps screen, not in the book I was reading; if it’s been on standby, it opens right back into the app/book). It goes through battery quite fast at the very beginning - when you first turn it on, look around, tweak the various settings (and learn to know/use them), download the apps you need, download a system update, let it update etc. I understand Boox official say is that it takes more battery for the first day or two after a system update or when you first get it, as it runs various background processes to optimise stuff or what not, which it won’t do later on during regular use.