New 13.3" Onyx Boox. Rumours, prototype specs, first pictures

[shards_x]

Originally Posted by Question Mark

Many thanks for the detailed review. Very helpful. So so tempting. Just wish there were a store in Canada selling Onyx so that I could avoid hefty shipping and duty fees.

Hi Question Mark. See PM.

[bobodude]

Hi,

i have got a couple of ereaders, and one thing i have been wanting to do for a few years now , it to be able to use them as a secondary computer monitor

unfortunately, i have never had great results

i have been looking at the onyx boox max, as a solution, and also at the 2nd generation of dasung monitors

has anyone here have any experience using the onyx max as a second monitor, maybe with a video ?

or with the dasung 2nd gen ?

or anyone had any luck with another ereader ?

thanks !!!

(i posted the same message in another 13.3 post)

[jlark]

Originally Posted by Booxtor

Currently demand for USB host mode on Onyx devices is quite low. Until now I got probably not more than 3-5 requests for it. In case it will be really demanded I could ask for special series with enabled USB Host.

Booxtor, please make that 4-6 requests. I bought the Max especially for text editing, and being able to use my own choice of keyboard would be great.

If the hardware support is there and the code already exists, the devs could easily create a setting to toggle it. Creating an UI for that involves extra-work, but I for one could do just fine with a "low-level switch" (editing a configuration file or somesuch), and i bet others feel the same. Given the battery drain you mentioned, this would make it obvious it's an "at your own risk" move.

P.S.: has Onyx considered an open source development model? I'd have already changed / improved some things had I had access to the code. With such a device that's appealing to developers, one never knows...

[Booxtor]

Hi, Drew22,

thanks a lot for really detailed and helpful review of your Max!
Great job!

Originally Posted by Drew22

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18. @ desk7 Yes, the annotations are not saved into the .PDF when transferring it to PC. I find it annoying. Booxtor, are you there? Can you or anybody else explain to us how it works?
...

Concerning annotations and scribbles in a PDF document. The original document remains unchanged. You can create a new PDF document and export all your drawings , handwritten annotations , highlighting etc in a new PDF and transfer it to PC or share this changed PDF with others. Additionally you can export all your text annotations including highlighted citations in a TXT file and use it separately.

[joblack]

Any other source for the adb package for the Onyx Boox Max firmware update? The ereader-Store link doesn't work anymore.

Why isn't it possible to upgrade on the fly or without losing the complete root system?

[rchiang]

Originally Posted by bopsis

Ok.
Here´s a link to one PDF thesis file: https://duepublico.uni-duisburg-esse...ssertation.pdf

Sorry for the late reply. I tried this dissertation and it works fine. Definitely less than a second per page.

I don't have a lot of spare time these days, but what I've noticed so far:

• Image-based PDFs are somewhat slow to render. Even image optimized PDFs (47 MB for 578 page document) renders fairly slowly. Admittedly, these most troublesome PDFs have a noticeable pause even on my desktop computer. I'd probably say about 10% seem to render at a barely-tolerable rate with the rest worse.
• Comixology Android App. Despite what Amazon's website says, a decent number of Kindle graphic novels I've bought in the past are available to me through the Comixology App. It took me a bit to configure correctly, but by always having Guided View on and turning off any page display or animations, each panel would render in about a second. Downloading takes a while and I can't figure out how to make sure it installs on the SD card, but I'm pretty happy with this app.
• Technical papers and proper textbooks flip pages quite well and are fairly readable. The app doesn't seem to matter much for me. I can't really make a good generalization other than "some are slow" and "some are pretty good". I'd guess I have about an 80% success rate for this category.
• PDF annotations are as Booxstor said. I haven't tried copying the file though.
• Battery life. It looks like I last posted about the eReader about 18 days ago. I haven't used it much in that intervening time, but when I powered on, the battery life icon seems like it hardly budged. Admittedly the thing automatically powers off after about an hour or so.

[joblack]

Could somebody please attach the adb.zip from the E-Reader Store? The original link doesn't work anymore and I don't know if I can use any adb.zip implementation to update the device.

[Booxtor]

Originally Posted by joblack

Could somebody please attach the adb.zip from the E-Reader Store? The original link doesn't work anymore and I don't know if I can use any adb.zip implementation to update the device.

Hi,

here you are

I uploaded it to my server:

http://ereader-store.de/DATA/adb.zip

[Booxtor]

Some news concerning updates on Onyx PDF reading software.
Onyx is working on K-Reader now, which will be successor of Neo reader. It should be introduced soon.
K-Reader uses a different engine which is much more faster and should support opening and working with multiple documents. Currently Neo Reader works ok, but for some documents it is quite slow and does not support multi documents, which could be important for academical reading..

[netgeo]

Hi Booxtor,

I've asked here before and I've emailed Onyx also but got no reply.
Do we have any news about the second batch of Max?
Just for us who preordered to have an idea.

TIA

[xtech]

Originally Posted by iacchi

If you've read the previous posts, Booxtor has already said that this second generation will come if the first model will have sold well enough. Regardless, it will definitely come later than those six months as the screen that they want to equip the reader with is not even in production yet as it has been delayed by the eink manufacturer.

Thanks to you and to others who wrote about this. I should have read the thread from the beginning first.

As far as Imx7 dual processors are concerned, perhaps the following page speaks about their status of production: http://www.nxp.com/products/microcon...IES?cof=0&am=0 Price (around $20-$25 per piece, if around 500-600 pieces are purchased) http://www.findchips.com/search/3dvk

[desk7]

Originally Posted by Booxtor

Hi,

here you are

I uploaded it to my server:

http://ereader-store.de/DATA/adb.zip

Dear Booxtor,
After enabling usb debugging on the device, I've tried to install adb drivers for the device but I wasn't able to.
I have also modified the .inf file of google usb driver adding the Hardware_ID of Boox Max but the adb tool always says: "List of devices attached: " and then nothing!
I tried to install drivers in windows safeboot mode, I changed USB cable, USB port but nothing changed!
I use Windows 10 64 bit and I only have USB 3.0 ports.
Could you help me, please?
Thank you

[joblack]

The update increased the general speed and the viewer programs seem to be more stable.

[allochi]

I just installed the update too on M96, It's faster and I can see that they added more features, like page refresh settings, and other stuff like dictionary and such on the top bar of the reader. Nice

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by Booxtor

Some news concerning updates on Onyx PDF reading software.
Onyx is working on K-Reader now, which will be successor of Neo reader. It should be introduced soon.
K-Reader uses a different engine which is much more faster and should support opening and working with multiple documents. Currently Neo Reader works ok, but for some documents it is quite slow and does not support multi documents, which could be important for academical reading..

Multi-document support is excellent news; it's one of the main things that keeps me reading academic PDFs on my iPad. As you rightly say, it's a pretty essential feature for academic reading.