Barnes & Noble NOOK ebook reader (WiFi + 3G)

 

 

Product Description

Choose an eBook using the beautiful color touch screen, then watch it appear instantly on the E Ink® display, where text appears as crisp as a printed page. The 16-level gray scale display offers great contrast with no glare or backlight. Choose from five font sizes so you can read with ease.

• Support for the existing 2 million "nookbooks" in the Barnes & Noble Nook library.
• Conde Nast and Hearst, the two biggest mag publishers—think Wired, PopMech, Vanity Fair—are onboard
• First device to offer over 100 color newspapers and magazines (both individual issues and subscriptions), including big names like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Elle. The Times looked way more basic than it does on the iPad when we saw it running.
• Music playback, whether stored or streaming, will be possible while reading
• "Nook Kids" will read selected interactive picture books to your children with the help of professional narrators.
• The Nook Color will play "most" video formats outside of Flash.
• Barnes & Noble was cagey about how much of the new content would be coming to its iPad app. We're guessing yes to color ebooks and maybe some elements of the kids' books, but not the newspaper or mag subscriptions. The Nook Color is going to be the best place for B&N content—which is interesting, given that the iPad is in many ways, still the best Kindle device.