ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2

ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2 is a device for reading electronic books with the latest "electronic paper" E Ink Carta screen and built-in MOON light system and the SNOW Fiel function. The reader has outstanding technical specifications: a high-performance 2-core processor, 512 MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory. The Android operating system thanks to its rich set of programs allows you to open text files of almost every format and to configure settings of the text for more comfortable reading. In addition, the device supports network libraries. Connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi, you can get access to hundreds of thousands of free books with a convenient search by title, author, genre or series.

What is E Ink Carta

E Ink Carta is the newest development of E Ink Company. This is a display made on the "electronic paper" technology. Reading on such a screen is as comfortable as on ordinary paper. Compared to previous generations of ePaper, this screen has a lighter base and higher contrast.

What is SNOW Field?

SNOW Field is an operating mode of the screen, allowing to reduce the number of artifacts on the screen within partial refresh. If this function is on, full refresh of the screen is not needed.

ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2
Screen lighting

Capacitive Multi-touch screen

The 6" E Ink Carta display has a lighter base and higher contrast than any other scrrens of this type. It makes the text readable in bright sunlight and has a high rate of a screen refresh. The absence of shimmering light and the principle of image formation with the E Ink method makes reading comfortable for your eyes. A capacitive Multi-touch screen enables easy controlling while reading a document: scrolling, zooming, making notes in the text and using additional functions.

Screen lighting

The MOON Light technology enables one to use the device in the dark or under poor lighting conditions. When this function is in use, soft luminescence of the screen comfortable for reading in dark rooms is being generated.

What is MOON Light?

MOON Light technique uses a reflective light distribution. The light-conducting layer is located over the display. The light goes through this layer and is reflected towards the screen being absorbed by the dark elements of the image and then this reflected light enters the eyes. This attribute mimics the traditional reflected light from an external source. This kind of lighting is significantly more comfortable for reading than backlit LCD displays.

High performance

High performance

A dual-core processor with 1 GHz clock rate and 512 MB of RAM ensures comfortable work with difficult documents. And 8 GB of nonvolatile memory and a microSD-slot supporting memory cards up to 32 GB allows the user to store up to 35000 books.

Format support

The BOOX software allows the user to open files of various text and graphic formats. When reading you can change font style and size, disposition of pages, insert bookmarks, add your own fonts and zoom documents at your will.

Format support
Built-in dictionaries

Built-in dictionaries

ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2 has pre-installed English-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries. Want to translate an unknown word? Just touch it!


Software development

Software development

ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2 allows the user to write personal software using the potentials of the Android 4.2 platform.

Continuous work

Low power consumption of E-Ink displays and battery capacity of 3000 mAh provides up to a month of autonomous work.

Continuous work
Language support

Language support

The BOOX allows the user to read documents in different world languages. Amongst them there are such languages as Russian, English, German, French, Spanish, Arabic, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese and many others.

ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2
ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2

ONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2 is a device for reading electronic books with the latest "electronic paper" E Ink Carta screen and built-in MOON light system and the SNOW Fiel function. The reader has outstanding technical specifications: a high-performance 2-core processor, 512 MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory. The Android operating system thanks to its rich set of programs allows you to open text files of almost every format and to configure settings of the text for more comfortable reading. In addition, the device supports network libraries. Connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi, you can get access to hundreds of thousands of free books with a convenient search by title, author, genre or series.

Display6", E Ink Carta, 16 levels of grey, contrast ratio 14:1, 758 × 1024 dots, capacitive Multi-touch screen eith the SNOW Field function
LightingMOON Light
Processordual core, 1 GHz
RAM512 MB
Internal memory8 GB
Expansion slotFor micro SD/microSDHC cards
USB interfaceUSB 2.0
Supported file formatsText: TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, FB2.zip, MOBI, CHM, PDB, DOC, DOCX, PRC, EPUB
Graphic: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP
Others: PDF, DjVu
Wireless interfaceWi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
BatteryLi-on 3000 mAh
Operating systemAndroid 4.2
Size170 × 117 × 8,7 mm
ColorBlack, white grey
Weight182 gr
KitONYX BOOX Vasco da Gama 2 eReader
User's manual
Case-cover
USB cable
European power adapter as a gift 220 V
Warranty card
Warranty period1 year

Note: Since a part of the Flash memory size is system software, the portion available to the user is less than the total size of the memory chip.

The device is designed primarily for reading electronic books, but has some additional features which are defined by the installed software. For example, the current firmware has functions such as calendar, dictionary, access to the Internet, and others.
The device is freely reprogrammable on request of the user who can install, delete and create programs.
The device has a battery that provides long, autonomous usage.

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