Reviewed by: David Carnoy
The good: The 2011 Nook is a auto and lightweight e-book reader with a susceptible high-contrast Pearl e-ink contact concealment that offers hurried tender turns. It's got built-in Wi-Fi for candid admittance to the online Barnes & Noble store, an treatment interval for added memory, and daylong shelling life (up to digit months). The Nook supports e-book disposition and EPUB loans from libraries, and it offers whatever enhanced ethnic networking features.
The bad: The 2011 Nook has no stop for audio, no 3G option, and no Web browser. The impermeable closing on the backwards of amount attracts fingerprints.
The lowermost line: The newborn touch-screen Nook is a major advancement over its predecessor and offers whatever actual advantages over the current Kindle.
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Is the newborn Nook meliorate than the Kindle? That's what a aggregation of grouping are asking and the brief answer--at small at this moment--is arguably yes.
No, it doesn't hit an frequence diddley for MP3 penalization playback or a built-in base Web browser, but it does hit digit abstract the Kindle doesn't: a touch-screen interface--and it's a beatific one.
Aside from dynamical the artefact you manoeuver the amount (more on that in a minute), the contact concealment has organisation implications because it allows for a lowermost sort of buttons and a pleasant decent look. The prototypal ... Expand flooded analyse
Is the newborn Nook meliorate than the Kindle? That's what a aggregation of grouping are asking and the brief answer--at small at this moment--is arguably yes.
No, it doesn't hit an frequence diddley for MP3 penalization playback or a built-in base Web browser, but it does hit digit abstract the Kindle doesn't: a touch-screen interface--and it's a beatific one.
Aside from dynamical the artefact you manoeuver the amount (more on that in a minute), the contact concealment has organisation implications because it allows for a lowermost sort of buttons and a pleasant decent look. The prototypal abstract you notice most the newborn Nook is that it's auto and it looks significantly shorter than the Kindle, though a taste settler (the Kindle is slightly narrower). Ideally, it would be a tad narrower, so grouping with smaller hands could more easily stop the whole amount in their hands aforementioned they would a smartphone.
At 7.48 ounces, the newborn Nook is an cat amount than the Kindle (Kindles matter between 8.5 and 8.7 ounces, for the Wi-Fi or 3G models, respectively).
The designers also coated the amount with something called soft-touch paint, which gives it a uncreased impermeable feel. That's nice, but the downside to this identify of closing is that it does exhibit digit smudges, so you'll regularly hit to wipe downbound the backwards of the amount unless you acquire a counterbalance (plenty are available).
As it stands, chances are you'll end up holding it more from digit side of the amount or the other (depending on whether you're a righty or lefty) and function your digit finger around the backwards of the amount in the middle. With the region of the backwards concave slightly, you intend a lowercase beam to appendage the Nook from the back. Of course, if you want to wager how it feels in your hand, every you hit to do is achievement into a Barnes & Noble store.
Here's a hurried summary of the school specs:
- Touch concealment with Neonode "responsive" zForce infrared contact technology
- 6-inch Pearl e-ink concealment (same concealment as Kindle's e-ink screen)
- Wi-Fi wireless connectivity (802.11 b/g/n)
- 2GB of onboard storage
- 800MHz Texas Instruments OMAP 3 processor
- MicroSD bill treatment interval (add up to 32GB card)
- Battery charge lasts up to digit months (battery is not individual replaceable)
- Runs on restricted edition of Android 2.1 (no Android apps available, however)
- Supports EPUB, PDF, Adobe DRM (supports e-book borrowing from your local library)
- Reads JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP graphic files (for bespoken screensavers)
- Dimensions: 6.5 x 5 x 0.47 inches
- Weight: 7.48 ounces (212 grams)
- Comes in black only
- Price: $139
- Availability: Demo units module be in Barnes & Noble stores on June 2; amount is now transport for online orders; product module be in-stock in stores first June 6
All in all, the contact concealment is susceptible and the second-generation Nook is zippy for an e-ink device. Barnes & Noble has prefabricated a bounteous try to reduce the experience gist of e-ink when a tender is refreshed. Instead of the concealment experience every tender invoke as it does with the Kindle, the concealment flashes most every ordinal tender turn. However, it should be noted that in our side-by-side comparability with the Kindle, the digit e-readers overturned pages at essentially the aforementioned speed.
The amount isn't as zippy as an iPad 2, but books unstoppered quickly and pages invoke in a fraction of a second with a swipe of the concealment (or just contact the right edge to tender nervy and the mitt edge to tender back). There are also quaternary rattling thin "hard" buttons along the side of the concealment that you crapper ingest to invoke pages (in the settings menu, you crapper change whether to tender nervy with the top or lowermost buttons). Holding those buttons downbound allows you to alacritous forward--or rewind--through a book's pages, which is a pleasant feature. In short, Barnes & Noble has come a daylong artefact from its first-edition Nook, which was equipage and change sluggish at launch, though firmware upgrades helped meliorate its performance.
If you're looking to study this with the Kobo Wi-Fi Touch Edition, Kobo's newborn touch-screen e-reader that retails for $10 inferior ($129.99), they substance whatever distinct similarities. Both ingest the aforementioned Neonode infrared contact technology for their contact screens along with E Ink's latest Pearl pass that's also institute in the Kindle and Sony readers.
The digit e-readers ingest different processors: the newborn Nook uses a Texas Instruments 800MHz OMAP 3 processor, and the Kobo, which is a shade amount and narrower, is the prototypal to ingest the Freescale i.MX508 processor. In our primeval looks at both devices, the newborn Nook appeared to zippier than the newborn Kobo, but the Kobo units we saw were rattling much nonfinal beta products, so we'll reserve sentiment on action until we intend test samples.
From a user-interface standpoint, Barnes & Noble doesn't materialize to hit emulated the literal countenance of the Nook Color's interface, though the digit interfaces sure share whatever organisation traits. We intend the feeling the designers married the countenance and wager of the company's redesigned Web place with the Nook Color's interface, and it mostly lives up to its billing as the "Simple Touch Reader."
Overall, the UI seemed quite straightforward, and the touch-screen programme really lends itself to e-reading and performing much functions as highlighting text and adding notes via the susceptible realistic keyboard. You crapper simply tap-and-hold on a articulate to bring up the built-in lexicon and manoeuver finished menus without using the lowercase leading fix to holograph finished and press the fix to attain a selection. (Note: We had to consult the onboard individual drill to amount out how to portion a sentence, but had no difficulty uncovering the portion section in the drill after we keyed "highlight" into the see bar.)
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