Reviewed by: king Carnoy
The good: The 2011 Nook is a auto and lightweight e-book reverend with a susceptible high-contrast Pearl e-ink contact concealment that offers hurried tender turns. It's got built-in Wi-Fi for direct access to the online Barnes & Noble store, an treatment slot 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 support for audio, no 3G option, and no Web browser. The rubberized closing on the backwards of figure attracts fingerprints.
The lowermost line: The newborn touch-screen Nook is a field development over its predecessor and offers whatever real advantages over the underway Kindle.
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Is the newborn Nook better 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 figure (more on that in a minute), the contact concealment has organisation implications because it allows for a lowermost number of buttons and a pleasant decent look. The prototypal ... Expand flooded analyse
Is the newborn Nook better 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 figure (more on that in a minute), the contact concealment has organisation implications because it allows for a lowermost number of buttons and a pleasant decent look. The prototypal abstract you attending most the newborn Nook is that it's auto and it looks significantly shorter than the Kindle, though a bit squatter (the Kindle is slightly narrower). Ideally, it would be a tad narrower, so grouping with smaller safekeeping could more easily stop the full figure in their safekeeping like they would a smartphone.
At 7.48 ounces, the newborn Nook is an cat figure than the Kindle (Kindles matter between 8.5 and 8.7 ounces, for the Wi-Fi or 3G models, respectively).
The designers also glazed the figure with something titled soft-touch paint, which gives it a smooth rubberized feel. That's nice, but the downside to this type of closing is that it does exhibit digit smudges, so you'll regularly hit to pass1 downbound the backwards of the figure unless you buy a counterbalance (plenty are available).
As it stands, chances are you'll end up holding it more from digit lateral of the figure or the another (depending on whether you're a righty or lefty) and position your digit digit around the backwards of the figure in the middle. With the middle of the backwards concave slightly, you intend a lowercase beam to appendage the Nook from the back. Of course, if you poverty 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 frequence 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 slot (add up to 32GB card)
- Battery charge lasts up to digit months (battery is not individual replaceable)
- Runs on restricted version of Android 2.1 (no Android apps available, however)
- Supports EPUB, PDF, Adobe DRM (supports e-book adoption from your topical library)
- Reads JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP realistic 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; figure is today 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 effect 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 fifth tender turn. However, it should be noted that in our side-by-side comparability with the Kindle, the digit e-readers turned pages at essentially the aforementioned speed.
The figure isn't as zippy as an iPad 2, but books unstoppered quickly and pages invoke in a cypher of a second with a swipe of the concealment (or meet contact the correct edge to tender forward and the mitt edge to tender back). There are also quaternary rattling slim "hard" buttons along the lateral of the concealment that you crapper ingest to invoke pages (in the settings menu, you crapper modify whether to tender forward with the crowning 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 felt inactive at launch, though code upgrades helped improve its performance.
If you're looking to compare this with the Kobo Wi-Fi Touch Edition, Kobo's newborn touch-screen e-reader that retails for $10 less ($129.99), they offer whatever crisp similarities. Both ingest the aforementioned Neonode frequence contact profession for their contact screens along with E Ink's latest Pearl display 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 paint figure 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 final samples.
From a user-interface standpoint, Barnes & Noble doesn't materialize to hit emulated the exact countenance of the Nook Color's interface, though the digit interfaces certainly 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 rattling lends itself to e-reading and performing such functions as lightness book and adding notes via the susceptible realistic keyboard. You crapper simply tap-and-hold on a articulate to alter up the built-in lexicon and manoeuver finished menus without using the lowercase directional fix to holograph finished and press the fix to attain a selection. (Note: We had to enquire the onboard individual drill to figure out how to particular a sentence, but had no difficulty uncovering the particular country in the drill after we adjusted "highlight" into the search bar.)
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