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The Tab Mini C uses an unspecified 8-core, 2GHz processor, similar to the Tab Ultra C. It has 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage, which is plenty of space if you want to read standard books, though color content typically consumes more storage. For a tablet, 64GB is a little low. The Tab Mini C also has Bluetooth 5.0 for listening to audiobooks or music (the single speaker is not great) and 802.11a/b/g/ac Wi-Fi.
Don’t expect bright colors like you would on an iPad or any other multimedia tablet. E Ink Kaleido tech has limitations and can only display about 4,096 colors that appear washed out on screen. A new tech called Gallery 3 is ready for mass production which promises better saturation, but we still haven’t seen a single color ereader with this screen yet. Soon perhaps. Even with muted colors, it’s a pleasure reading on the Tab Ultra C’s screen. There is native support for synchronising notebooks and files with Boox Cloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Baidu Cloud, Nutstore, and other WebDAV-compatible cloud services. Boox products are supplied with a 1-year warranty that covers any hardware defects (not caused by the customer) Tab Mini C is compatible with 24 digital formats, including PDF, DJVU, CBR, CBZ, EPUB, AZW3, MOBI, TXT, DOC, DOCX, FB2, CHM, RTF, HTML, ZIP, PRC, PPT, PPTX, PNG, JPG, BMP, TIFF, WAV, and MP3.
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With this in mind, the Tab Mini C has four different display modes. HD is at one end, which renders the sharpest and most vivid picture but isn’t fast enough to play video. Ultrafast is at the other end, which pushes the E Ink to its fastest possible refresh rate, but it loses detail along the way and exhibits heavy ghosting. The Balanced and Fast options sit between HD and Ultrafast, with Balanced leaning more toward HD and Fast leaning more toward Ultrafast in terms of performance. I recently reviewed the Remarkable 2 which is an excellent digital notebook that beautifully recreates the feeling of pen and paper, and now Onyx is looking to move the ceiling for what’s possible on an e-ink device. As much as I hate making this comparison, a 10.9-inch iPad would be a better (and potentially cheaper) investment if it’s a color screen you’re after. Throw in an Apple Pencil and you wouldn’t be spending too much more either. If a color screen isn’t important and you want a really capable note-taking ereader, then I’d recommend the Kobo Elipsa 2E in a heartbeat and you’ll save a lot of money too. The Tab Mini C’s front lights use Direct Current (DC) technology to reduce flashes when the screen brightness is changed, making it easier on the eyes. Handwritten annotations can be saved for viewing on your Boox device, however, only annotations in the PDF file format will embed the handwriting so that it can be exported for viewing on other devices
Brushes include fountain pen, ballpoint pen, pencil, paintbrush and marker. There are 16 colours to choose from and line width can be set between 1 and 20. The user interface has been redesigned to make the Boox Tab product line ( Boox Tab Ultra, Boox Tab X, Boox Tab Mini C etc.) more customizable than previous generations of Boox tablets During this time, I used the Tab Ultra C as my primary ereader, to make notes – particularly for this review – using both the on-screen keyboard and the case, and creating hand-written todo lists and other notes. The lasso-select tool supports moving, copying, resizing, rotating, and flipping (180 degrees) handwriting. You can also add ‘tags’ and links to handwriting and change the colour.
Over 40 templates are included (which are effectively an uneditable bottom layer) and you can add custom templates This isn’t to say that the writing experience is bad, far from it. The reaction time is super fast and crucially, the Onyx Boox pen is included from the get-go which should be standard practice across the board. It still boggles my mind that the Remarkable Marker is sold separately from the main tablet.
More importantly, though, Onyx has done a marvelous job of adapting the OS to suit the device. The company’s tablets arguably have the most number of settings parameters for you to tweak of any ereader out there and it’s the same here again. In fact, there are times when I feel the adjustments are overkill, but they all work well and once you’ve used them, you wonder why other such devices don’t have something similar. And this goes for the multiple refresh rate options accessible via the E Ink Center (swipe down from the top right corner to bring up the Control Center)… but strangely enough they don’t seem to work as well here. This isn’t a camera you’d use to take regular photos. While it can, what you see is a pixelated, fuzzy rendering of the scene that’s saved in PDF format, not JPG. So you can’t even edit in post-production like you would a regular photo.The Boox Tab Ultra C supports split-screen view so, for example, you can have an open book on the left and a notebook on the right to take notes as you read This is particularly handy for me as I’ve swapped over to using the Tab Ultra for any last-minute bits of work before retiring for the day, and found the experience to be a lot more forgiving on my eyes than a smartphone or traditional tablet.
The Note Air3 C is the more affordable and less powerful of the two devices. If you're looking for something that primarily serves as an eReader, it's probably the one you'd favor. We liked the Note Air2's excellent build quality and long battery life, but dinged it for poor app compatibility. Note Air3 C (Credit: Boox)
Having a color screen also means you can choose to highlight text in different colors if you are in the habit of adding annotations and notes.And you can draw in color too. Like the Tab Ultra, there’s a 16MP rear camera on the Tab Ultra C too. Its main task is to help you scan documents and it does that well enough, but not consistently enough. The good thing about the scans are that they’re in full, saturated color… once you’ve shared them to yourself via Dropbox, Boox Drop or cable transfer (or any other method – you link you Google Drive and OneDrive accounts). BOOX is committed to providing free firmware updates for all models for more than 3 years since the product launch date. So every BOOX user can get improved experiences through consistent updates.
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