Got yourself a Nook Color, did you? If you’re not a sort to wait for for OTA updates to strike you upside a head, Barnes & Noble has just let loose a program update that’s gratis to download. Version 1.1.0 promises to improve a Nook Color’s WiFi connectivity, improve Home and Shop opening and to “enhance a understanding experience for magazines as well as children’s books.” Frankly, the latter is quite a extraordinary promise, though we suspect we’d rather have it than not. In other headlines, a refurbish is adding pinch-to-zoom capabilities in a browser, and B&N additionally swears which other miscellaneous bugs were squashed in a making of v1.1.0. Hit the source couple to get those bytes a-streaming, or only wait for it to be delivered over-the-air in a entrance days. On second suspicion, only download it.

[Thanks to everybody who sent this in]

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So you’re Barnes & Noble as well as you have the successful product like the Nook — what do you do? Trademark a heck out of a name, of course. As PocketNow has remarkable, a company’s filed the series of Nook-related heading applications over the past couple of months, that may offer some hints of prospect Nook hardware, program, or both. That unsurprisingly includes an application for “Nook2,” which was first filed back in June, as good a single for a name “Nook Smart” (possibly associated to a existent Nook Study education height, and one for a impossibly familiar “Nook Cook.” Unfortunately, it’s not clear which (if any) of those might actually be a name of the new Nook device — there’s additionally the heading application for “Nook Kids” with the description similar to “Nook2,” for instance, but it may well just be for a company’s Nook Kids store as well as iPad app. The many recent of all a filings is one for “Nooksellers,” which appears to be for a multiple in-store kiosk and online service that would offer personalized recommendations and various social networking tie-ins. Of course, there’s zero more than a heading applications to go on during the impulse, but it does positively appear clear that the Nook name is here to stay.

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It’s tough to believe we’re already essay the review of the Nook Color, considering Barnes & Noble’s first incursion into the e-reader world was revealed only over a year ago. In which time, the company has left from no presence in e-books to owning 20 percent of a marketshare, and now has changed from the rather indolent hybrid E-Ink / LCD device to a full color, tablet-like product. The Nook Color is definitely the major step forward, boasting a utterly revamped, Android-based OS, as well as a large pull into the children’s book as well as periodical market (particularly full color magazines). Both of these spaces have nonetheless to be mined successfully by players similar to Apple and Amazon — and it’s transparent Barnes & Noble is aware of a stakes. Beyond book understanding, a Nook Color potentially offers the inscription alternative which can (or will be means to) do most of what is possible on an iPad or Galaxy Tab. In fact, a association plans to launch the own Android inscription app store in the initial quarter of 2011, on condition that the unchanging, concordant application knowledge which could get a burst upon other Android tablet-makers’ skeleton (hello Samsung). Of march, this is the fierce marketplace, and with a $249 cost tag, Barnes & Noble has to play to win on every front. So, is a Nook Color the subsequent logical step in e-readers? Is it a healthy alternative to some-more expensive tablets? And can it cement the prominent bookseller’s place in a hotly contested new space? Read on for all those answers in the full Engadget review!
Nook Color examination

Hardware

It should be obvious right off the bat which B&N put the lot of suspicion into a pattern of a brand-new Nook. In fact, a tangible industrial pattern of a device was finished by Yves Behar, whose work you’ve positively seen in iconic products similar to the OLPC XO laptop, a Leaf Light for Herman Miller, as well as some-more recently, a appealing Jambox. There’s no mistaking his dictatorial touch here; a Nook Color is an elegantly, thoughtfully designed square of record. As you would design, a front of a device is eaten up often with that 7-inch, 1024 x 600 IPS arrangement. The edges and sides of a device are coated in a near-matte finish, charcoal-colored cosmetic, whilst the back of the unit is well-spoken, soft rubber. On the reduce lefthand dilemma there’s the tiny “offshoot” that continues a outline of a unit, but gives purchase for a finger to trip by, or a lanyard to be attached. It’s a tiny pattern flair but the lot of make use of, though it helps to give a Color a distinct vibe. On the conflicting sides nearby a tip of the device there’s the power / sleep symbol and volume rocker. A 3.5mm headphone jack lives upon tip of a section, there’s a orator around back, as well as on a face of a device is the single, iPhone-like home “n” symbol which regularly takes you behind to the informed homescreen. At just 0.48-inches thick, a Nook Color feels svelte, yet it weighs in at nearly a pound, creation the device seems substantial in your hands.

Even though the framing is built out of plastic, the section feels durable and even imperishable (we think which rubber backing helps with which notice. While you didn’t do any drop tests, a Nook Color certainly feels similar to it can take something of a beating (but don’t go throwing it against walls upon the comment.

Inside, the system boasts a TI OMAP 3621 CPU clocked during 800MHz (or, “speeds up to 800MHz”). The device has 512MB of RAM, 8GB of peep storage, as well as a microSD container for additional enlargement (the slot allows use of cards up to 32GB). As you said, the screen is of a 7-inch LCD variety, as well as at a 1024 x 600 fortitude, looks pretty dense (from the pixel perspective) with a 178-degree viewing angle. Barnes & Noble is quite unapproachable of a screen, that a association says utilizes its “VividView” diagnosis to yield reduction glisten. What that really means is that the screen coating is fully laminated against the arrangement itself, making for reduction tiny, almost-imperceptible deranged areas which can locate light. Still, the arrangement is pretty reflective, making understanding in splendid locations (like on the transport with stark fluorescent lighting) infrequently difficult.

The Nook Color is versed with 802.11b/g/n WiFi, but you won’t find any 3G here. Additionally, there’s a light sensor on the front of a device — the good touch which allows you to conserve the small bit some-more of that battery (which is rated at 8 hours a assign… with WiFi off).

Overall, both inside and out, the Nook Color is surprisingly well designed. There are a little opening issues (more on that in the software section below), though that seems likely to be a symptom of messy formula rather than an underpowered chipset. In fact, we played around with a dev section running Angry Birds, as well as it was just as well-spoken as the iPad or Galaxy Tab using a same diversion.

Software

Really, the Nook Color (and any device that relies solely on a touchscreen for submit is all about the program. The Color starts at a necessity (in the perspective by using atop a custom Android build based off of chronicle 2.1. That’s the little bit of a barbiturate as 2.2 supposing a conspicuous speed bump for a platform, as well as we’re now upon a precipice of entering 2.3 domain, leaving Barnes & Noble extremely behind the bend. In most ways, this isn’t really an emanate, since the strange Android interface has been so obscured by the tweaked skin and functionality that regulating a Nook Color mostly feels nothing similar to Android — and that’s a good thing in this case. In fact, throw out your whole conception of Android as a platform (provided you have one at all), because a Color behaves like the savage all its own.

When you first boot the device, you’re greeted with the center screen of 3 homescreens where you can prepare books as well as periodicals you’re currently reading, see not long ago downloaded content (presented as the scrollable list during a bottom of the display), and get discerning entrance to a number of alternative facilities of the device, such as your many recent selections, and general settings. We like a thought of this alighting page, and in execution it functions unequivocally good, yet there are some hold reply as well as frame rate issues which make a knowledge the small uneven. One good feature is which you’re able to scale and openly move element you’re understanding around these pages, allowing you to prioritize your calm in the visual manner.

As far as general navigation goes, on every shade (not just your home bottom, you’ve got a tiny tab which pulls up the menu from the bottom of a page with familiar Nook selections: library, shop, search, extras, web, as well as settings.

The library section is orderly by books, magazines, as well as newspapers, though additionally gives options for formulating your own sets of content (“my shelves”), working with PDFs as well as other docs, music, images, and video (M4V only) in “my files,” and allows you to dive into a company’s much-touted lending module. The lending options have been expanded in a Nook Color, and the association now provides the social network of sorts for friends of yours with Nook inclination wherein you see the selections they’re lending out, showcase what you have to lend, and request titles. Not each book is lendable, but the expansions to a use are courteous.

Shopping is now the most some-more interactive as well as enjoyable knowledge, with clearly guided methods of poke and discovery. We wish you could be as excited about record government, but it’s kind of a churned bag. We had no trouble personification MP3s as well as AAC files, though we had some issues reckoning out just how to get the music into the player. We could play the singular record, though found no choice to add albums or create playlists. Finally, you figured out which the restart is required once you’ve combined music (we’re guessing it gives a device a possibility to indicate a content). That’s all good as well as great, but a Color should rescan your collection after the USB sync. Another issue was removing back to the player itself. In a corner of the device you get a small song icon that gives you the pop-over presentation — you design which it will transport you back to a player, but it does nothing. We also discovered while sharpened our demo video that Pandora and a song app can actually finish up personification over a single another — obviously there should be the call to kill one when another starts. Hopefully Barnes & Noble will have the quick repair for some of these minor issues early upon.

Videos were an additional issue — we couldn’t get anything besides M4Vs to play, and even afterwards we had trouble with some HD trailers. Obviously this isn’t the consequential task for this device, but having a clever set of codecs as well as some decent video support would be really good (and should cost next to nothing for this platform).

Dealing with galleries as well as PDFs, upon the alternative hand, was the joy. We jumped into unequivocally large PDFs with no difficulty whatsoever (though it is uncanny which you don’t flip through them like books, rather appropriate up and down). Galleries installed up reasonably fast as well as a included picture spectator gives you the full of health amount of options (along with splash zooming). The Nook Color additionally does Microsoft Office documents, as well as we were able to perspective DOCs and PPT files with a in accord with turn of success. Just similar to most things upon a device, it wasn’t the fastest knowledge in a universe, but it worked good.

While a Nook Color is the entirely able Android tablet, it’s not loaded with the kind of features you’ll see in a Galaxy Tab. It does, however, have a full web browser, as good as a Pandora app, along with chess, sudoku, and crossword games. As you said progressing, Barnes & Noble has plans to launch its own app store in Q1 of 2011 with software written (or tweaked) specifically for this form factor — we’re anticipating that developers get upon house, otherwise a Color-as-tablet concept is fundamentally out the window. We do think that if anybody is starting to force an Android tablet-specific app store, the retailer with a large footprint like B&N has some-more of the fighting chance right now than the manifold organisation of hardware manufacturers like Samsung and LG.

As distant as the web browser goes, the experience is pretty standard Android 2.1 transport, though as with a homescreen as well as general navigation on a Nook Color, a fun of regulating the device is hampered by touch response as well as refresh rates that seem approach behind a curve. The team working on this software really needs to clear up some of these loiter issues to make a Color the more viable preference for those considering this instead of the dedicated Android inscription. Of march, this cost indicate helps to make the powerful argument.

Web browsers and gaming aside, the categorical concentration of a Nook Color is that it’s an e-reader — so how does it fare in that department?

First let’s get something out of a way. Obviously this isn’t an E-Ink screen, so you have to confirm if you’re on board or not for understanding upon an LCD arrangement. If you’re interesting an iPad or Galaxy Tab, we’ll pretence this screen record is not starting to deter you from regulating the device as the reader. For us, the arrangement tech isn’t the major hang-up — in actuality, lots of the staff have been regulating iPads as understanding inclination with small to no trouble.

So as distant as screen tech goes, a Nook Color looks beautiful as an e-reader for standard books and goes one step beyond, delivering magazines as well as children’s books the approach they were meant to be viewed. For customary e-book understanding, there are tons of options for formatting, fonts, and coloring — even those with poor eyesight should be able to find settings that make the reading experience enjoyable. We really liked reading with the Color, and even though the device doesn’t sport charcterised page turns (a la the iPad), it does suggest good options for notation as well as word or word find (you can do compendium, Google, as well as Wikipedia searches right from a contextual menu). We additionally desired which you’re means to share quotes or info about what you’re understanding around email, Twitter, or Facebook.

For magazines, the reading format is the bit dissimilar. The full pages of the magazine have been displayed upon the screen, and you can swipe left as well as right to pierce by them. What’s even better, however, is a scrubber (for miss of the better term) that you’re able to bring up only next your repository calm that lets you quickly burst by a magazine as well as afterwards zoom into a page you wish to review. We found this option great for skipping ads. Once in a magazine page, you can wizz as well as pan to see photos up tighten or review, though the Nook Color additionally provides the novel (no joke intended) option called ArticleView which lets you mangle out content upon the page into the frame down the middle of the screen with solid, clearly entertaining content inside. It’s a great thought that worked most of a time. Sometimes, upon pages with lots of captions or cutaway content it didn’t seem to capture everything. As avid magazine readers, we unequivocally love the option of a one method of removing periodicals, as well as the Nook Color is the first device to essentially show that it can be done without the extensive volume of effort (and surprisingly little mislaid. There’s obviously room to grow in this area (and the lot of calm still to seize — a stream magazine catalog is usually about 70 strong), though we similar to where it’s headed. We hatred to beat the passed horse, but as with a rest of a interface, the magazine experience is hampered by the sluggishness of the UI.

The Nook Color additionally offers newspapers delivered everyday, though we’re not utterly as psyched upon the blueprint of a normal dailies. We found the page ordering as well as pattern of these digital editions treacherous as well as clunky. There’s expected the hybrid of what Barnes & Noble is doing with magazines and what the association does with books for these publications — but a stream state of daily writings is a bit of the mess upon a height.

The final piece of a puzzle is B&N’s pull into a kids’ book market with the brand-new formatting which not only allows children as well as their relatives to page by full color versions of renowned kids titles, but introduces a “review to me” function. The premise is rather than elementary: a professional voice actor reads a duplicate out shrill by the Nook Color’s orator, as well as a child can follow along. We’re sure this will be a quality addition to a parent’s arms depot of options for keeping a kids happy. We did have a few issues with some audio skipping early on in a single of a books we tested, though it went divided quickly and didn’t lapse. The kids books also suggest the scrubber similar to a one found in the repository section. One thing of note — loading these volumes takes the little some-more time — though altogether a feature worked as advertised.

Battery life
We didn’t have most of the chance to sign the Nook Color’s long-term battery life (we’ve usually had a device a couple of days), though in our testing, the full charge yielding more than the day of upon and off use. This wasn’t constant hammering, though an ebbing and flowing of reading, contrast features, as well as keeping the device asleep. From a looks of things, the assign each integrate of days should take caring of battery issues for most people, but a most voracious readers might find which the Color pales in comparison to E-Ink devices, and in the contrast the iPad still outclasses this in battery life by a prolonged shot. In short: a battery holdup is great, though it’s not going to blow you away. Expect to keep a horse accessible — you’ll really need it on the regular basement.

Wrap-up

So, is the Nook Color value your hard-earned money? Well, we’ll contend this — if you’re a hardcore reader with an ardour that extends over books to magazines and newspapers, the Color is the initial viable choice we’ve seen that can await your habit. Not usually does Barnes & Noble have an astoundingly good selection of e-book titles, a company seems to be aggressively posterior a periodical commercial operation, that is a big deal. This is a initial device we’ve seen that effectively and consistently presents a tone repository choice. It’s not a fanciest or many sophisticated display, but a thought of carrying your favorite glossy delivered approach to the device similar to this every month (in a truly readable format) is a major innovation. But besides all the understanding you’ll be you do with the Color, you’re also shopping into a potentially much bigger proposition — namely, the idea that come Q1, this thing will be a viable Android tablet with an app store of the own. Granted, it doesn’t have 3G on-board, and a OS could use some serious TLC as well as gloss, though if B&N delivers on its desire to create a marketplace for Nook Color apps, you could be spending $249 not just for the good reading experience, but for something far bigger. For a cost, you’re removing a lot of product here — now it’s just the question of whether or not Barnes & Noble knows how to take value of that product.

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Sure, a lighting’s not great as well as its only the mock-up at this indicate, though that’s Barnes & Noble’s brand-new Nook Color. We’re being told there will be a chance to hoop a real operative section soon, but in the meantime, suffer a shots below!

Update: We only got some some-more time with a functional section, and while you aren’t allowed to use it, we can contend the build quality is sturdy, there’s a great rubber subsidy, as well as the observation angles have been quite good. It’s crisp, too, the shade, although page branch is rather indolent, a software maybe not finished. Article perspective is a nice touch, being means to read just a square formatting-free — and you can slick through the articles alone by swiping to the left as well as right. You wish a little some-more shots of a UI in action? You know where to look.

Update 2: Well, which was difficult! We finally got some “alone time” with a Nook Color, nonetheless we still weren’t concede to put the apparently soiled fingers on it. You can check it out in the video below, but you still seem to think there’s a little software tweaking going upon as it’s the bit indolent to switch through menus. While we’re still of the mind which this device should have had the PixelQi or Mirasol display, you can inform which the LCD is responsive to finger swipes as well as a observation angles have been quite good (believe us, we were seeking at this thing from all angles as book-loving journalists swarmed it.) We can’t as well as won’t make a last call upon a Color until you get a single into our hands, but the video below should give you the improved idea of the UI as well as performance until afterwards. Working Nook Color hands-on

Nook Color mockup hands-on!

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We still don’t know what Barnes & Noble is announcing during the “very special event” subsequent week, but a company has only done an additional fairly big proclamation: the Nook will be attack the shelves during a little 2,500 Walmart stores commencement “as shortly as” October 24th (in further to Walmart’s online store). That includes both a 3G and WiFi-only Nook models, as well as some Walmart stores will even have the “Nook-branded eReading area” where customers can try out the device. Head upon past a break for a complete press recover. Show full PR textBARNES & EMINENT ANNOUNCES AWARD-WINNING NOOK™ EBOOK READER WILL BE SOLE AT WALMART

INDENTATION Devices to Be Sold in Walmart Stores as well as on Walmart.com Beginning Next Week

New York, NY – October 21, 2010 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), a world’s largest bookseller, currently announced the award-winning INDENTATION eBook Reader will be sole in 2,500 Walmart stores (NYSE: WMT) as well as online at www.walmart.com. The popular NOOK inclination are expected to arrive on Walmart shelves beginning as shortly as October 24, in allege of the legal holiday shopping season.

The NOOK eBook Readers will be prominently featured as the premier eBook Reader in the consumer wiring area. Many Walmart stores will underline the NOOK-branded eReading area where shoppers can see as well as touch the proof device.

Walmart will offer both great preference and value with two INDENTATION by Barnes & Noble eBook Reader models — INDENTATION 3G, that offers giveaway AT&T 3G wireless as well as Wi-Fi connectivity, as well as INDENTATION Wi-Fi, the Wi-Fi usually model. Both offer a crisp, paper-like E-Ink arrangement for understanding as well as the beautiful color hold screen for navigation, as well as access to emporium a Barnes & Noble expansive eBookstore with more than a single million eBooks, magazines and newspapers, most accessible for $9.99 or less and more than half a million giveaway titles. Digital calm from Barnes & Noble is downloaded wirelessly in seconds. INDENTATION devices are also the only to offer pity of eBooks with friends through Barnes & Noble’s new thing LendMe™ record.

“Sales of INDENTATION inclination continue to exceed the expectations, and you have been thrilled to be means to partner with Walmart, a single of the world’s biggest retailers, to enhance a placement of our award-winning NOOK eBook Reader,” pronounced Chris Peifer, Vice President, Digital Business Development during Barnes & Noble. “Walmart’s millions of shoppers will have an easy and available approach to try INDENTATION inclination in many stores as well as to learn why INDENTATION is the most full-featured eReading device upon the marketplace, as well as the perfect gift resolution for anybody who loves to review.”

ABOUT BARNES & EMINENT, INC.

Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), a world’s largest bookseller as well as the Fortune 500 association, operates 717 bookstores in 50 states. Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Barnes & Noble, also operates 633 college bookstores portion nearly 4 million students and expertise members during colleges as well as universities opposite a United States. Barnes & Noble is a nation’s tip bookseller code for the seventh year in a row, as dynamic by the combination of a brand’s performance upon laxity, extravagant, as well as squeeze vigilant; a tip bookseller in quality for the second year in a quarrel as well as a number dual tradesman in trust, according to a EquiTrend® Brand Study by Harris Interactive®. Barnes & Noble conducts the online commercial operation through Barnes & Noble.com (www.bn.com), a single of a Web’s largest e-commerce sites, which also features some-more than a single million titles in its eBookstore (www.bn.com/ebooks). Through Barnes & Noble’s NOOKTM eReading product charity, business can buy as well as read eBooks upon the widest range of platforms, including NOOK eBook Readers, inclination from partner companies, as well as hundreds of the most popular mobile and computing devices regulating free INDENTATION program.

General report on Barnes & Noble, Inc. can be obtained around a Internet by on vacation a company’s corporate website: www.barnesandnobleinc.com.

NOOK™ as well as LendMe™ are trademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Other trademarks referenced in this recover have been the skill of their particular owners.

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At a little destiny indicate in time, when the record eventually allows it, all ebook reader displays will have a burst to tone. Perhaps that’s what Barnes and Noble is thinking by registering the nookcolor.com domain. Then again, “Nook Color” is the name rumored for B&N’s new 7-inch tone touchscreen device said to price the small $249. Or maybe it’s just the pickup of full of color snap-on bezels for the existing Nook. Whatever it is, we’ll be treated with a truth upon Tuesday when B&N hosts its very special eventuality. Be there won’t you, you will.

[Thanks, Matthew C.]

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Barnes as well as Noble sure is busy today. If you’re a Nook owners, you’re going to wish to get upon the update they’ve just unleashed flattering quickly. Version 1.4 includes the couple of pretty critical fixes — including the much-need “go to page” feature, an additional large rise size, and await for AT&T WiFi. That’s right, a next time you ramble into an AT&T hotspot you’ll be Nooking for giveaway. The Nook firmware version 1.4 update is available now (and we’ve included the approach couple to the download below if you unequivocally wish to check which out.

Turns out all the snooping was mark on with this a single. We first spotted the simpler, cheaper Nook creation its way by a FCC late final month, and afterwards usually final night you got sloping off to the $150 cost point for a e-reader sans cellular tie. Now Best Buy has confirmed a whole thing with the listing of a BNRV100 indication, which comes in over $100 cheaper than Barnes and Noble’s strange ($259), although Best Buy has seen fit to give that a cost trim as good. We like where this is going, especially if it triggers B&N’s competitors to lower their own fees.

[Thanks, Paul]

Update: Barnes and Noble has right away left entirely central with its new $149 Nook. The 3G version has taken the price dump to $199 as well, matching a pricing indicated by Best Buy. B&N is currently also outing its firmware version 1.4, which allows the free use of AT&T wireless hotspots everywhere.
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Barnes & Noble Introduces NOOK™ Wi-Fi® as well as Lowers NOOK 3G Price,
Giving Book Lovers Greater Choice and Even Greater Value

At Only $149, Wi-Fi-Only Addition to NOOK Family is a Most Full-Featured, Low-Cost eBook Reader upon the Market, Now Available Online during www.nook.com

Bestseller NOOK 3G is First Dedicated eBook Reader with
Free 3G Wireless as well as Wi-Fi Connectivity Available at $199

Latest Software Update to Both NOOK Models Offers INDENTATION Customers
Complimentary Access during All AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots and Improved Reading Features

New York, New York – June 21, 2010 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), a world’s largest bookseller, is giving book lovers some-more preference and greater worth in dedicated eBook Reading devices with the addition of INDENTATION Wi-Fi to the INDENTATION by Barnes & Noble family for only $149, and a new lower cost for its award-winning NOOK 3G during $199. The new INDENTATION Wi-Fi offers all a good facilities of INDENTATION 3G – a tone touchscreen for navigation and best-in-class E-Ink® display for a great understanding knowledge – plus Wi-Fi connectivity. NOOK Wi-Fi is now accessible to order online at www.nook.com as well as www.bestbuy.com.

Barnes & Noble’s brand-new price for NOOK 3G outlines the market’s initial under-$200 dedicated full-featured eBook reader which offers both giveaway 3G wireless as well as Wi-Fi connectivity. And Barnes & Noble continues to raise the eReading experience for all INDENTATION 3G and INDENTATION Wi-Fi owners through its latest 1.4 program update, right away offering even more places to bond to Wi-Fi for giveaway as well as faster entrance to a content they wish to review.

INDENTATION Wi-Fi eBook Reader marries innovative record as well as sleek minimalist pattern with Wi-Fi connectivity. This ultimate addition to a NOOK family gives business the event to take value of the proliferation of both in-home and open Wi-Fi hotspots, where they can crop the Web and emporium the Barnes & Noble eBookstore of more than a single million eBooks, periodicals as well as other digital content. With the ultimate program update for all INDENTATION devices (now accessible during www.nook.com/update), Barnes & Noble is offering all NOOK customers complimentary access to AT&T’s complete national Wi-Fi network, including Barnes & Noble bookstores which have previously been available to NOOK business.

As part of a INDENTATION eBook Reader family, INDENTATION Wi-Fi facilities Barnes & Noble’s new thing LendMe™ technology, enabling business to share eBooks with friends for up to 14 days. NOOK Wi-Fi additionally offers the same good in-store features similar to Read In Store™ to browse complete eBooks in Barnes & Noble stores at no cost, and More In Store™, charity free, disdainful content and special promotions.

“People who adore to review will find tremendous worth with the brand-new INDENTATION Wi-Fi, the many full-featured, low-cost eReading device upon a marketplace, and the bestselling INDENTATION 3G right away during an even reduce cost,” pronounced Tony Astarita, Vice President, Digital Products, Barnes & Noble.com. “This expanded preference offers best-in-class, best-priced dedicated eBook Readers featuring eBook pity, entrance to our vast eBookstore, good free as well as disdainful calm as well as most more. And with expansion of quick as well as giveaway Wi-Fi entrance beyond Barnes & Noble stores to thousands of AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots, we’re bringing one more freedom as well as flexibility to all INDENTATION 3G and NOOK Wi-Fi business.”

Just like INDENTATION 3G, NOOK Wi-Fi facilities:

* Enriched eReading: Enjoy an immersive understanding knowledge with tone book covers to browse in your library or while selling, fast page turns, mixed rise choices and sizes and more.
* Dual displays: A fun, easy-to-use reading knowledge upon the familiar paper-like 6″ E Ink display which offers great contrast with no backlight or glisten even in bright object, as well as 3.5″ LCD reduce tone touchscreen for navigation.
* Vast catalogue of calm: Shop a Barnes & Noble eBookstore for all from classics to current bestsellers as well as download your content wirelessly in seconds. There are some-more than one million eBooks, magazines and newspapers available as well as free eBook samples.
* Lend to friends: Share the far-reaching operation of eBooks with friends for 14 days using exclusive LendMe™ record.
* In-store experience: Access fast as well as giveaway Wi-Fi connectivity in Barnes & Noble stores as well as suffer a beta Read In Store underline to crop many finish eBooks for giveaway, as well as a More In Store module, which offers giveaway, disdainful content and special promotions.
* Games, song and Web: Play Chess or Sudoku, listen to your favorite songs or browse a Web to check headlines as well as email.
* Light as well as moveable library: About a distance as well as weight of the paperback, a 2GB device carries approximately 1,500 eBooks and offers virtually unconstrained shelf space with expandable memory.
* Your B&N personal library: With Barnes & Noble’s Lifetime Library™, Barnes & Noble digital purchases will be permitted on BN.com and can be enjoyed on the widest variety of devices. Your eBook library goes wherever you go, giving present access to your existent Barnes & Noble digital library upon your INDENTATION device, partners’ third-party eBook readers as well as hundreds of computing as well as mobile inclination enabled with giveaway BN eReader software including iPad™, iPhone®, iPod touch®, BlackBerry®, HTC HD2™, PC as well as Mac®.
* Read for days: Long battery life equates to you won’t need to worry about recharging. With Wi-Fi incited off, suffer understanding for up to 10 days on a singular battery assign.
* Personalize with character: Customize NOOK Wi-Fi with a single of a many stylish designer accessories accessible for all NOOK inclination. Customers can select from a range of classical as well as full of color accessories written exclusively for INDENTATION devices by renowned designers kate spade brand-new york, Jack Spade, Jonathan Adler, Tahari and others.

NOOK Wi-Fi follows INDENTATION 3G’s stylish pattern as well as measure as well as is lightweight (just 11.6 ounces), making it easy to lift in the purse, briefcase, trek or suit coupler slot, only like NOOK 3G. NOOK Wi-Fi also comes with the removable white behind cover – NOOK’s is grey – as well as you can personalize your device from a preference of 4 one more good back cover colors.

All INDENTATION 3G as well as NOOK Wi-Fi customers can additionally use a enclosed USB cable to bond their device to the PERSONAL COMPUTER or Mac to send their personal files in ePub, PDF and PDB formats to their INDENTATION. Based upon Barnes & Noble’s open platform as well as Adobe technology partnership, customers can transfer as well as read personal files that implement Adobe’s ultimate digital rights government or have been rights-free. Barnes & Noble’s make use of of Adobe technology as well as ePub format also allows business to review their digital content opposite the flourishing star of inclination.

NOOK Wi-Fi Available for Order Today
Just in time for summer understanding, INDENTATION Wi-Fi is right away accessible for purchase online during www.nook.com for $149 and will begin shipping this week. A bookseller during the Barnes & Noble store can additionally assistance customers place an order. INDENTATION Wi-Fi can also be systematic during www.bestbuy.com. Barnes & Noble expects INDENTATION Wi-Fi will be in-stock in select Barnes & Noble as well as Best Buy stores for immediate squeeze after this month as well as rolling out to all stores later this summer.

INDENTATION 3G continues to offer both giveaway 3G wireless and Wi-Fi connectivity to give business some-more ways to shop on-the-go. INDENTATION 3G is in batch during Barnes & Noble stores and during www.nook.com with the brand-new cost of $199. NOOK 3G is also accessible during Best Buy and www.bestbuy.com.

Visit a INDENTATION opposite during any Barnes & Noble store to see, reason as well as hold NOOK and sense some-more about eBooks as well as eReading from a knowledgeable Barnes & Noble bookseller who can assistance determine which INDENTATION eBook Reader best fits the customer’s needs. Barnes & Noble offers the most appropriate opportunity to try before you buy in both Barnes & Noble as well as Best Buy stores.

NOOK v1.4 Update: Complimentary AT&T Wi-Fi Access as well as More
Barnes & Noble additionally voiced which its ultimate NOOK v1.4 program gives all NOOK 3G as well as INDENTATION Wi-Fi customers complimentary high-speed entrance to AT&T’s complete national Wi-Fi network, together with restaurants, hotels as well as one more locations opposite the country that can be found at www.att.com/go. So now, in addition to Barnes & Noble stores, all INDENTATION customers can suffer free-high-speed entrance to crop the Barnes & Noble eBookstore as well as the Web upon their NOOKs in thousands some-more places.

The latest INDENTATION program additionally offers a Go To Page underline, a single of the most frequent enhancements requested by NOOK users, which allows customers to burst to the specific page number in an open eBook, an additional additional vast font as well as opening enhancements to open eBooks even faster.

INDENTATION v1.4 program is now accessible around primer download at www.nook.com/update with additional information as well as easy-to-follow directions. NOOKs continuous to Wi-Fi will embrace an involuntary NOOK v1.4 refurbish upon syncing over a subsequent week.

We knew it was entrance, though not how shortly, and we’d usually guessed during the cost. Today the tipster sent over this screenshot, however, clearly display a Nook WiFi on Wednesday for $149. While inner databases aren’t a most arguable source for recover dates even assuming the screenshot is legit, we’ll know for sure in just days. The subject now is how Kobo stacks up.

If you’ll allow us to do the little dot-connecting and hand-waving here, we consider you may have just stumbled across the new version of Barnes as well as Noble’s Nook which drops the GSM connection as well as soldiers upon with WiFi alone, matching up easily with the gossip that spread across a webs not long ago. You see, the Nook’s FCC ID is BNRZ100, as well as this thing which you only found in a FCC’s filing system under Barnes as well as Noble’s name has an ID of BNRV100 — and the exam reports have been very explicit about a actuality that this is for “EBOOK, WLAN, AND USB PORTS BUT WWAN.” WWAN, of course, is a fancy way of referring to the cellular connection, so that’s that. If this thing can sell for, contend, $100 reduction than the Nook’s $260 — the cost which puts it out of reach of a average person’s incentive squeeze limit — you could see a little significant brand-new uptake of the platform, we’d wager. No word upon the release, but we’ll keep the ears to a belligerent.