북팔마: 제한된 기능을 갖춘 독특한 전자책 리더

### 북팔마: 전자책 리더와 스마트폰의 독특한 조화
* 📱 북팔마는 **스마트폰과 전자책 리더의 기능**을 결합한 색다른 디바이스로, 그 한계에도 불구하고 마니아층을 확보하고 있습니다.
* 📉 최신 스마트폰은 공학의 경이로움이지만, 압도적이고 산만할 수 있어 **화면 사용 시간을 줄이고 순간에 더 집중할 수 있는 디바이스에 대한 갈망**을 불러일으킵니다.
* 📚 북팔마는 **셀룰러 연결과 셀카 카메라가 없고 후면 카메라의 해상도가 낮아 일반적인 스마트폰보다 성능이 떨어지지만**, 이러한 단점이 오히려 방해 요소를 줄이는 역할을 합니다.
* 🌐 Android에서 실행되는 북팔마는 **킨들, 오디블, 스포티파이 같은 앱**을 설치할 수 있어 소셜 미디어에 빨려 들어갈 위험 없이 다양한 독서 및 청취 경험을 제공합니다.
* 🔋 전자 잉크 디스플레이는 주로 화면을 새로 고칠 때 전력을 소비하기 때문에 **며칠 또는 몇 주 동안 지속되는 놀라운 배터리 수명**을 제공하며, 다양한 조명 조건에서 독서하기에 이상적입니다.
* ⚙ 사용자는 **페이지 넘김 및 새로 고침 빈도 설정**을 사용자 지정하여 독서 경험을 향상시킬 수 있으며, 방해받지 않는 **음악 플레이어 또는 독서 동반자**로 사용할 수 있다는 점이 매력적입니다.
* 🤔 궁극적으로 북팔마는 사용자가 스마트폰의 압도적인 알림에서 벗어나 **디지털 독서와 미디어의 혜택**을 누릴 수 있는 보조 장치로 가장 잘 작동합니다.
* 💖 이러한 독특한 포지셔닝 덕분에 북팔마는 **더 단순하고 집중력 있는 디지털 경험**을 원하는 사용자들의 공감을 얻으며 기술에서 산만함을 줄이려는 움직임을 구체화했습니다.

북팔마는 전자책 리더의 간편함과 스마트폰의 기능을 결합하여 방해 요소를 줄이고 집중력을 높여 사람들의 마음을 사로잡습니다.

Okay, objectively, this is a bad smartphone, but something is going on here that's kind of nice. This thing is called the books Palma b x, kind of a weird name. It's supposed to read like books, but some people say books. But the idea is it's an eaper device that's supposed to blend the world of the smartphone and the Kindle. Now, I don't want to call it a cult or anything like that, but this thing has definitely formed its own little fan base over the past couple of months where, hey, you either know about it or you don't. You're either in or you're not in. So, the modern smartphone is kind of ridiculous. If you haven't thought about it lately, just take a second. It's kind of a marvel of engineering. It's amazing that we fit all of this computing power, an amazing screen, a super-fast internet connection, and a bunch of high-quality cameras and sensors in this tiny little glass box that fits in our pockets and lasts all

day so there is a lot of upside that comes with that, but there is a certain downside too, which is sometimes it can be a little bit much, like it can be just a little bit distracting or a little bit addicting, or sometimes you want to be able to spend just a little bit more time in the moment instead of looking at the world through your smartphone or just scrolling all the time. And so the self-control argument always comes up, but there's also been this new wave of devices specifically created to not be as distracting. Some people are calling them dumb phones, sometimes they're even more limited communication, but the thing they all have in common is they literally can't get caught in a doom scrolling loop because they don't have apps or any distractions on them at all. They're purely for function, and this one of them has a bit of a cult following now, the books Palma. I picked it up because I saw our audio man Ellis started getting really into it, seen it in a studio video. Then there's these

articles about it and these reviews of it and people pouring their life into it and daily driving it. But the thing is, this is worse than a normal smartphone. Like, I don't want to just skip over that. Like, this, it's the shape and size and look of a normal smartphone. It's got an octa-core CPU. It's got 6 gigs of RAM. It's got a 6.1 in screen. But it's worse. There is no SIM card tray, so there is no cellular connection at all. There is no selfie camera. The rear camera is only a low-res literal document scanner with no video recording. The speakers are almost useless, and it maxes out at 128 gigs of storage. So yeah, it's clearly worse. But if the mission is to spend less time on your actual smartphone, then all of these downsides are actually good things. You either get it or you don't. You know, the thing about e-readers is they are typically pretty limited single-use devices that only let you

read with a single app or a single ecosystem of services, like the newest Kindle, for example. It's 100 bucks, it's thin and light. Everybody knows what a Kindle is, but really, all it's meant to do is read books from Amazon's Kindle bookstore. Everything else is an afterthought. Then there's stuff like the Kobo Libra 2, which is a super popular alternative, costs 200 bucks. It has some extra journaling features and pen input, but this thing cannot play a single song from Spotify. Like the theme in this device is solid, but of course, nothing is as versatile or capable as a full-on smartphone. So enter the Books Palma. The Books Palma, this thing runs Android and is basically just a straight-up smartphone inside without those data modems. So even though it's this awesome e-paper display and looks like a moving newspaper with A+ readability and all the benefits that come with the normal e-reader, being easy on the eyes, you can technically also put whatever you want.

on it. It has the Google Play Store. You can sideload APKs, so yes, you can install the Kindle app and read Kindle books if you want. But also, you can install the Pocket app, or raindrop.io, or Readwise Reader, and read articles you've saved. You can also install Audible and listen to audiobooks with Bluetooth headphones. You can also install Spotify and use it as a portable, zero-distractions music player or podcast player. The list goes on. So, if smartphones are OP, they're up here, and single-purpose e-readers are limited; they're more down here. Then the Book's Palama is like right in here, which is it's clearly better than a single-purpose e-reader. It's more capable, but it's clearly not as capable as a full-on smartphone, but just enough to be kind of charming in a sort of can't get sucked into a TikTok rabbit hole type of way, if you know, you know. Yeah, now a couple neat special things that you should know that you've seen before if you're in the e-reader world.

battery life is well compared to a smartphone. It's actually incredible. So, this shouldn't be a surprise, but if you didn't know, e-ink basically only uses battery when it's actually refreshing and moving the ink around. So, when it's just sitting on one page or just showing something for an extended time, that actually doesn't use power. So, battery life on the books here is in the realm of days, not hours, sometimes weeks for a light user. The only other thing that can eat into battery really is the backlight, or in this case, actually the front light. So, e-ink screens aren't lit from behind, but there are lights around the front, so you can still light it up and read in darker conditions. And that light can be tinted to match the color temperature of whatever room you're in. And there are some apps that also will let you map the side buttons to flipping pages instead of just being volume buttons like they normally are. And then there are different settings for the refresh modes as well, so all the way to

the left is HD mode, which has the highest quality image with the least ghosting, but that's going to be also the slowest refresh rate. So, that's fine for just sitting and reading, but on the far right mode is ultra-fast mode, which will have the smoothest relative refresh rate but also the worst quality. This is when you scroll and you kind of see a little bit of that ghosting in the background of the previous image. Honestly, it gets quick enough to be able to legibly watch videos if you really, really wanted to. It's kind of this trippy Harry Potter Daily Profit kind of world where, remember the moving newspapers from the movies? Like, obviously, there's no colors, and on this model, there's not nearly enough resolution to fully appreciate the video, but still kind of neat. It's better than nothing, but most of the time I leave it in balanced, which is the default, and I'm happy to basically never actually watch videos on this thing. Now, a couple of times throughout this video, I've said, you've heard me say things

like hey, if you know, you know, or you either get it or you don't. And so, you may be wondering if I've been converted, if I'm joining this book's Pama mini cult, if I'm going to daily this thing. No, absolutely not. Matter of fact, if you want to watch the experience of someone who actually did try to daily this thing, I'll link the studio video below where Ellis like really, he went to the full lengths to try and, you know, carried a Wi-Fi hotspot to always have it connected everywhere since there's no SIM card. And I mean, I don't want to spoil the video, but like, it's a lot of work and it's not really worth it. But that's almost like, it's like overlapping, like it's missing the point. This is, I think, meant to be, or at least it's in its best state when it is a device that you avoid smartphone tasks on. Like this as a secondary device that can be my alarm clock in the morning that I just reach over and hit dismiss and I'm not

immediately drowned in notifications because there literally is no notification system, and I'm not tempted to jump into TikToks and reels because it really doesn't do that well. Like, maybe there's something to that, like maybe there's something to a dedicated reading device that you can bring anywhere with you on any daily commute that doesn't ever suck you into the rabbit hole of Twitter or reels or whatever. Like, real people want that. Like, I kind of love this as a literal, like an iPod, like a portable offline music player that I literally never watch YouTube videos on. It's kind of charming in that way, and this is somehow all of those things in one. So, you know, I couldn't necessarily tell you the exact moment or why the books Palma became like the face of this movement of these types of devices, especially when there are other alternatives that keep getting sent to me that are similar, stuff like the high sense A9 or the Kobo Libra color. Um, then again, the high sense A9 is a smartphone. It costs a bit more.

and it has a data connection, and some people just don't really want it to do all that. And the Kobo Libra color, as implied by the name, that's the one with the color display, and that's also just a little bit extra. So, kind of feels like the books is in the exact Goldilocks zone of just enough missing features that it's captured people's hearts. And you know, that's how it goes sometimes. Sometimes you're the M50s that represent all affordable good-sounding headphones. Maybe you're the GoPro that represents all smart action cameras. That's the books Pama, and that's why it exists. This has been MKBHD. Thanks for watching. Catch you guys in the next one. Peace.

This Phone is Bad... Which Makes it Better?

Marques Brownlee

북팔마 B X는 스마트폰과 킨들의 기능을 결합한 전자 종이 기기로, 마니아층을 형성하고 있습니다.

단점에도 불구하고 산만하지 않은 경험을 제공하여 현대 스마트폰의 압도적인 특성에 대응합니다.

이 디바이스는 집중력을 높이고 방해 요소를 제한하도록 설계된 '멍청한 휴대폰' 트렌드의 일부입니다.

북팔마는 스마트폰과 비슷하지만 화면 사용 시간을 줄이도록 설계되었으며, SIM 카드 트레이와 셀카 카메라가 없고 저해상도 후면 카메라만 제공합니다.

옥타코어 CPU, 6GB RAM, 최대 128GB의 저장 용량을 갖추고 있어 일반 스마트폰보다 활용도가 떨어집니다.

Android에서 실행되는 이 제품은 가독성 A+의 전자 종이 디스플레이를 갖춘 전자 리더의 장점을 제공하는 동시에 사용자가 앱과 서비스를 맞춤 설정할 수 있습니다.

다용도 도서의 팔라마 전자 리더

더 북의 팔라마 전자책 리더는 킨들, 포켓, 오디블, 스포티파이 같은 앱을 설치할 수 있는 기능으로 단순한 독서 이상의 기능을 제공합니다.

이 제품은 방해 요소를 최소화하는 데 중점을 두고 단일 목적의 전자책 리더와 스마트폰 사이의 매력적인 균형을 제공합니다.

전자잉크 기술로 며칠 또는 몇 주 동안 지속되는 놀라운 배터리 수명을 제공하며, 전면 조명 기능으로 어두운 환경에서도 독서를 즐길 수 있습니다.

이 디바이스는 세 가지 모드를 제공합니다: 최고 화질과 고스트 현상을 최소화하는 HD 모드, 가장 부드러운 재생률을 제공하지만 화질이 가장 떨어지는 초고속 모드, 그리고 기본값인 밸런스 모드가 있습니다.

초고속 모드는 동영상을 선명하게 재생할 수 있지만 해상도가 낮고 색감이 부족해 재미가 떨어집니다.

이 장치는 일상적인 사용을 위한 기본 장치보다는 스마트폰 작업을 피하기 위한 보조 도구로 사용하는 것이 가장 좋습니다.

북팔마와 같은 전용 독서 기기는 소셜 미디어와 끝없는 스크롤의 유혹을 피하고 방해받지 않는 경험을 제공합니다.

북팔마의 매력은 간결함과 누락된 기능에 있으며, 휴대용 오프라인 독서 솔루션을 찾는 사람들의 마음을 사로잡습니다.

하이센스 A9과 코보 리브라 컬러와 같은 대안 제품들과 함께 북팔마는 사용자를 위한 완벽한 기능의 균형을 대표하며 시장에서 독보적인 위치를 차지하고 있습니다.