Boox has made a name for itself in the e-reader world by cornering parts of the market left unexplored by bigwigs like Amazon and Kobo, and its next product could expand its niche dominance even further. Today the company teased the Boox Picco, an immensely pocketable e-reader with a tiny 3.97-inch screen. That will make Picco the smallest e-reader in the Boox lineup by far; the company’s current small-form e-reader, the Palma, has a 6.13-inch screen. Where the Palma and its successors are about the size of a smartphone, the Picco is even smaller than a deck of cards. Little else has been revealed about the Picco just yet, though Boox has said the e-reader will sport a monochrome E Ink display and a front light. The device will also have microSD support for extra storage. Boox says the Picco is the first product in a new “Tile” line, though the company didn’t provide any details about what that entails.
The announcement of the Picco is an almost direct response to the success of Xteink’s line of pocketable e-readers. The Xteink 3, Xteink 4, and the Xteink 4 Pro (just announced this week) have gone somewhat viral in the last year or so, specifically for their size. The Picco will be smaller even than Xteink’s smallest e-reader.
