ONYX BOOX Caesar 3 electronic reader :: ONYX BOOX electronic books

ONYX BOOX Caesar 3 is a device for reading electronic books with an "electronic paper" E Ink Carta screen and the built-in MOON light+ system with color temperature control and the SNOW Field function. This model is designed for those users who are planning to use it for reading and who don't need a variety of additional functions. Its great E Ink Carta screen with high contrast makes reading comfortable and not tiring even during long use. Smoothly adjustable MOON Light+ lighting makes reading comfortable even under poor lighting conditions and 8 GB of internal memory allow the user to store a vast library in one device.

What is E Ink Carta?

E Ink Carta is the latest development of E Ink company. This display is made by "electronic paper" technology and allows you to read on it as comfortably as on regular paper pages. Compared to the previous models, this one 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.

E Ink Carta screen

The screen of the latest generation E Ink Carta with a diagonal of 6" has a lighter base and higher contrast than other screens of the type. It allows one to read in bright sunlight and has a high rate of screen refresh. Absence of a shimmering light and the principle of image formation with E Ink method makes reading comfortable for eyes.

Screen frontlight

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. It also has a color temperature control.

What is MOON Light+?

The latest researches have shown that blue light prevents the production of melatonin (daily rhythms regulator), which is necessary for a person to sleep. Therefore, after reading on a glowing screen of an ordinary tablet or smartphone, it is often difficult to fall asleep.

MOON Light + allows you to adjust the brightness of cold and warm LED lights independently, choosing at will white light for reading during the daytime, and more yellow for reading before sleeping.

High performance

A quad-core processor with 1,2 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 a whole library.

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.

Built-in dictionaries

There are pre-installed English-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries in this model. To translate an unknown word just choose it in the text.

Reprogramming option

ONYX BOOX Caesar 3 allows the user to write personal software using the potentials of the Android 4.4 platform.

Continuous work

Low power consumption of E-Ink displays and battery capacity of 3000 mAh provides a long-term autonomous work.

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.

Display	6", E Ink Carta, 16 shades of grey, contrast ratio 14:1, 758 × 1024 pixels, with the SNOW Field function
Processor	4-core, 1,2 GHz
Lighting	MOON Light+
RAM	512 MB
Internal memory	8 GB
Expansion slot	For micro SD/microSDHC cards
USB interface	USB 2.0
Supported file formats	Text: TXT, HTML, RTF, FB2, FB2.zip, MOBI, CHM, PDB, DOC, DOCX, PRC, EPUB Graphic: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP Others: PDF, DjVu
Battery	Polymer Li-on, 3000 mAh
Operating system	Android 4.4
Size	170 × 117 × 8,7 mm
Color	Black
Weight	182 gr
Kit	ONYX BOOX Caesar 3 electronic reader User's manual USB cable Warranty card
Warranty period	1 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.

Current firmware version Jan 4, 2019

Version: 2019-01-04_11-11_1.9.1_f12fc98
MD5 checking sum: 6a14ba15af552a317ffbf566722268c5
Download: firmware update file (276.204 MB, ZIP-file)

Setup

Download the firmware update.zip file onto your PC.
Charge the device battery at least up to 50%.
Extract the content from the downloaded update.zip file. You will have the update.upx file.
Connect your ereader to your PC.
Copy this update.upx file into your device into the root directory of the internal memory via a USB cable.
From the main page of the eReader go to Settings > About > System Update > Check update from local storage.
There will be a question: "New update package found. Do you want to update?". Choose "OK".
Updating process will start. It lasts for about 5 minutes.
If there appears the system menu in the process, select Reboot Now with the help of the side buttons and confirm your choice with a short press of the Power button.
Wait till the user interface starts.
After the procedure, go again to Settings > Privacy > Factory data reset > Reset device and Erase everything. This procedure is necessary to make the device work properly.