{"id":838821,"date":"2026-09-06T21:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838821\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T21:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:30:10","slug":"booxs-tiny-picco-e-reader-should-land-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/838821\/","title":{"rendered":"Boox\u2019s tiny Picco e-reader should land in November"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boox teased the Picco<\/a>, its take on the buzzy Xteink X4<\/a> e-reader, back in July, but provided almost no details. Now, thanks to some<\/a> reporting<\/a> out of IFA, we\u2019ve got a bit more info, though sadly still no price. Unlike the Xteink devices, the Picco will not have magnets on the back for attaching to a phone. The 3.97-inch e-paper display, however, will be touchscreen, which The Verge\u2019s Andrew Liszewski called a \u201cwelcome upgrade\u201d on the X4 Pro<\/a>. The Picco has physical page-turn buttons, and they can be customized with different actions for short and long presses.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s apparently no onboard storage, and it relies entirely on a microSD card to hold books. But in addition to adding files to the card, you can transfer reading material to the Picco directly over USB-C (which the Xteink devices lack) or even WiFi from a companion app.<\/p>\n

The Picco won\u2019t run Android, like Boox\u2019s other devices, and will instead run a stripped-down, Linux-based OS. The company is including a handful of additional apps like a timer, a todo list, and a reading stats tracker. But, it\u2019s unlikely that Boox will open its firmware like Xteink has, so it might be a less hackable and customizable device.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s still some things we don\u2019t know, like price, battery life, Bluetooth support, or if it will include a player for audiobooks. But all should be revealed in November, when it\u2019s expected to launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boox teased the Picco, its take on the buzzy Xteink X4 e-reader, back in July, but provided almost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[166,3,172,74],"class_list":["post-838821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gadgets","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}