The world’s first Android 16 e-reader just got colorful

Simply weeks after we lined ViWoods’ unexpectedly bold AiPaper Reader, the world’s first reader working Android 16, the corporate is already increasing the lineup. This time, it’s including a splash of colour with the AiPaper Reader C, a variant that trades the crisp monochrome Carta panel for a colour E Ink show. It’s a stylish pivot, as increasingly more e-readers get colourful makeovers all through the market.

The transfer to paint ought to make the Reader C extra interesting to anybody who commonly handles comics, illustrated books, kids’s titles, or PDFs with charts and diagrams. Colour E Ink nonetheless isn’t vibrant within the LCD sense, but it surely does add context that grayscale can’t at all times seize. As at all times, a colour E Ink panel additionally reduces sharpness, which means textual content and high quality strains gained’t look as crisp as they do on the monochrome AiPaper Reader.

{Hardware}-wise, ViWoods doesn’t change a lot. The 6.13-inch Reader C boasts the identical 6.7mm thickness as the unique and weighs simply 138g, holding issues splendidly transportable. It additionally retains the identical core {hardware}: 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, non-compulsory 4G connectivity, and, after all, Android 16. Just like the AiPaper Reader, the colour mannequin helps data-only SIM playing cards for 4G use, letting customers sync books, obtain apps, or run AI instruments with out counting on Wi-Fi, one thing we often solely see on a handful of area of interest gadgets. The Reader C additionally retains the identical built-in AI button for triggering on-page help.

As with most colour E Ink gadgets, the AiPaper Reader C isn’t a transparent improve; it’s a special compromise. Readers who need versatility might welcome it, whereas purists may wonder if colour is definitely worth the probably lowered readability. Both method, ViWoods’ fast follow-up suggests the corporate is raring to carve out an actual presence within the e-reader world, and the AiPaper Reader C is one other step in that route.

The AiPaper Reader C is priced at $349 and is on the market by way of ViWoods’ on-line retailer or Amazon, the place listings for the brand new colour mannequin have already begun to seem.