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Barnes & Noble Nook review Review
The All-New Nook is a B&W e-Ink reader by Barnes & Noble targeted at those who prefer simplicity of traditional paperback books. It comes with high performance Pearl 6" e-ink touch screen that 50% more contrast than with Nook first edition. Nook is powered by custom version of Android 2.1. However, as compared to Nook Color, it does not allow to run any external Android programs, partly because of E-ink display incompatibility with the most applications. In contrast to e-book readers that contain dozens of buttons, Nook has only 5 buttons: two on each side for page turning (in a case if an user doesn't want to use touch screen for turning pages) and one button at the center of bottom panel that brings up menu for accessing settings, book search and other features. The All-New Nook offers 2 GB of internal memory which is enough for 1,500 titles or so. The device memory is expandable via a microSD slot that can be used to significantly increase the memory. For example, 16 GB card can easily hold another 15,000 e-books. As regards the battery life, Barnes & Noble’s announced that this device has the longest lasting battery life than any other e-book reader on the market, including Kindle 3's battery. Some tests show the (All-New NOOK battery lasts for 150 hours where the Kindle battery, using the same page-turn rate, lasts for only 56 hours)[http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/b-n-clarifies-nook-battery-life-stats/12965] One of the bigger improvements with this version of the Nook include user interface and the fact that there is 80% less screen flashing than on any other e-book reader, according to official information. Considering all the features that the Nook has to offer, "The Simple Touch Reader" is a very affordable e-reader at very competitive price.