CNET is “Impressed.” When you add a color reading screen to an already virtuous product like the nook, it really puts it over the top of Kindle and inline with Apple’s iPad when it comes to the best ereader on the market. Here is how Barne’s and Noble (B&N) describes it:
- Stunning 7-inch color touchscreen
- Magazines & newspapers in rich color
- Kids’ books come alive
- Over 2 million titles at your fingertips
- Get social, surf the web, play games, even listen to music
It is a hybrid of ereader and tablet PC device (running Android, a flavor of Linux), and has beefed up its software with a full-on tablet-style user interface (UI), along with Facebook and Twitter applications. B&N has managed to put a new “VividView,” 16 million color, 1024 x 600 IPS display in this ereader and it has a “full lamination screen film” on top of the LCD to reduce glare, which makes me wonder if it is going to reduce the need for buying screen protectors. We’ll have to see. Let us know what you think of it in the comments or read more or purchase here.