Onyx Boox E-ink Tablet: In Search For Multitasking

Working on some nightmares

Onyx Boox Max Lumi is currently probably the best and most expensive e-reader — or rather an e-ink tablet. Its specs are as impressive as its price that lies around $880:

• Large 13.3-inch screen with warm and cold front lights
• 4GB RAM
• 64GB of the storage capacity
• Octa-core processor (who knows what it means but it is quick!)
• Android 10

Max Lumi is not your traditional e-reader like Kindle Paperwhite. This is a powerful e-ink tablet. It runs a modern version of Android and you can install apps through the Google App store. As soon as I realized this, I wanted to push its capabilities as far as possible. I connected an external keyboard via Bluetooth, I have found apps that work nicely with the display, and started writing. However, for real productivity, one thing is often necessarily: good multitasking.

In this article, I would like to discuss the multitaksing abilities of Onyx Boox Max Lumi that runs currently the latest firmware 3.1. However, many of these tips should work more or less also with other models and/or with older firmware and some probably even with other e-ink tablets.

I will cover here 3 areas:

• Switching between apps