ONYX BOOX Darwin 3 eReader :: ONYX BOOX electronic books

ONYX BOOX Darwin 3 is a device for reading electronic books with the latest "electronic paper" E Ink Carta screen, built-in MOON light system and the SNOW Field function. The reader has outstanding technical specifications: a high-performance 2-core processor, 512 MB of RAM and 8 GB of internal memory. A Wi-Fi module and a built-in browser allows the user to browse the Internet. The Android operating system thanks to its rich selection of programs allows you to open text files of almost any formats and to configure settings of the text for more comfortable reading.

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.

Screen lighting

The unique 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.

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.

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

A dual-core processor with 1 GHz clock rate and 512 MB of random access memory 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.

Built-in dictionaries

ONYX BOOX Darwin 3 has pre-installed English-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries. Want to translate an unknown word? Just touch it!

Smart cover

The kit comes with a smart cover which not only provides effective protection of the screen, but when closed turns automatically the device to sleep mode.

Software development

Darwin 3 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.

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 levels of grey, contrast ratio 14:1, 758 × 1024 dots, capacitive Multi-touch screen eith the SNOW Field function
Lighting	MOON Light
Processor	dual core, 1 GHz
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
Wireless interface	Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g/n
Battery	Li-on 3000 mAh
Operating system	Android 4.2
Size	170 × 117 × 8,7 mm
Color	Black, white grey
Weight	182 gr
Kit	ONYX BOOX Darwin 3 eReader User's manual Case-cover USB cable European power adapter as a gift 220 V 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 Nov 26, 2018

Version: 1.8.3-mc 2018-11-26_18-06 35d5be1
MD5 checking sum: ae7dd0cd20e6740a8c27451aeb3e3b89
Download: firmware update file (259.879 MB, ZIP-file)

Setup

Download the firmware update.zip file on your PC.
Charge the device battery at least up to 50%.
Copy the update.zip file onto your device into the root directory of the internal memory via a USB cable. Then disconnect the cable.
Connect an AC charger to the device and then to a power supply source.
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.
Remove the installation file of the firmware after the eReader turns on.
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.