{"id":43896,"date":"2024-06-28T16:34:37","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T20:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=43896"},"modified":"2024-06-28T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T20:35:21","slug":"moaan-inkpalm-plus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/28\/moaan-inkpalm-plus\/","title":{"rendered":"Moaan InkPalm Plus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2024\/06\/review-moaan-inkpalm-plus-is-weird-cheap-small-and-my-kind-of-e-reader\/\">John Moltz<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=40811675\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2024\/06\/review-moaan-inkpalm-plus-is-weird-cheap-small-and-my-kind-of-e-reader\/\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/xoxo.zone\/@lazerwalker\/112531497711081306\">A post on Mastodon<\/a> got boosted into my feed that touted the Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm 5 which sells for about $95. Now you&rsquo;re talking my kind of cheap. Looking into the Moaan lineup, I then found the InkPalm Plus which features a slightly larger screen, more storage and a more up-to-date version of Android, all for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aliexpress.us\/item\/3256806876799779.html\">as low as $124 on AliExpress<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>So, what did I get for not that much of my money? The InkPalm Plus has 64 GB of storage, 2 GB of RAM, a 5.84-inch screen with a 1440 x 720 resolution and runs Android 11. All of the hardware specs are less than the Boox Palma but, again, see the price.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>My main attraction to the Boox Palma was twofold: it was easy to palm and it had physical buttons for page turning. These two things are ultimately what make the InkPalm Plus worth the warts for me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It works with content from both Kobo and Kindle, but neither Kobo nor Amazon makes a reader in this narrow a size. It looks like it will easily fit in a pocket, but the line lengths are very short.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Moltz (Hacker News): A post on Mastodon got boosted into my feed that touted the Xiaomi Moaan InkPalm 5 which sells for about $95. Now you&rsquo;re talking my kind of cheap. Looking into the Moaan lineup, I then found the InkPalm Plus which features a slightly larger screen, more storage and a more up-to-date [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-06-28T20:34:39Z","apple_news_api_id":"23bf477e-2a42-4be8-a298-775669a68bb9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-06-28T20:35:25Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AI79HfipCS-iimHdWaaaLuQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[248,2589,166],"class_list":["post-43896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-android","tag-e-ink","tag-ebooks"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43904,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43896\/revisions\/43904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}