You don’t have to look far to find a colorful e-reader, but those of us looking for more note-taking capabilities on a screen without noir sensibilities, choices truly abound. Alongside the reMarkable Paper Pro Move and Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, in steps Onyx with what may be the smallest E Ink screen on offer with a Boox P6 Pro. This time around, you’ll be able to use the phone-like device with a stylus to turn it into a pocketable, colorful notetaker.
If you weren’t already smitten with the phone-sized Boox Palma, Onyx hopes you may be enticed with a tiny color E Ink display. Onyx kept the new device under wraps at IFA 2025, but The Verge first spotted the company posting about the new device on China-centric social media app Weibo. While the device may look like a phone, including the back camera cutout, the P6 Pro is more akin to a full note-taking device. That 16-megapixel camera is designed for reading QR codes instead of taking photos of friends. However, the P6 Pro will come with a SIM card tray, unlike the Boox Palma, which means you can download apps or comics without relying on a Wi-Fi connection. The new device is likely still based on Android, like past Boox e-readers.
There is another, likely cheaper Boox P6 Pro that will sport a black and white E Ink display. For color, The Verge claims Onyx is using the E Ink Kaleido 3 technology. That means it can display black and white at 300 PPI, or pixels per inch, but comics may come out a little less detailed at the max 150 PPI in color. The touchscreen E Ink device comes with 128GB of internal storage and a microSD card slot for up to 2TB of expanded storage (that’s a lot of books). The microSD card and SIM card slot take up the same space.
None of what Onyx wrote on Weibo indicates that it is selling the Boox P6 Pro as a phone. No matter what, any device with E Ink’s slower refresh rate will feel more limited for daily use. In that case, you may want to pine over the TCL NXTPaper 60 Ultra with its matte screen finish and anti-blue light technology, which helps preserve your eyes when reading page after page on your phone. No, unfortunately that device is not available to purchase in the U.S. Woe to all of us Americans who are forced to stare at screens all day.
Onyx is planning to host a full launch on Oct. 9 where it may hopefully share more about when the P6 Pro could come to the U.S. and how much consumers can expect to pay for it. Color E Ink is still more expensive than LCD e-readers. The reMarkable Paper Pro Move with its 7.3-inch display starts at $450 with the stylus. The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft demands $630, which is the same price as the reMarkable Paper Pro and also includes a stylus.