Ah yes, the Barnes and Noble Nook. I received mine on December 9, 2009. So I’ve been using my Nook for about 3 weeks now and I really have to say that I like it. It’s a great little device. It works well with the Barnes and Noble store and it offers support for many more file formats than Kindle. It contains the very same viziplex e-ink display as the Amazon Kindle, but also has a smaller, color LCD screen below the 6″ e-ink display.
The Nook has gotten tons of bad reviews and frankly, I’m not sure why. It seems to be a great device, so far it’s worked well for me and it runs the Android operating system. I’ve read 2 books so far on my Nook and have had zero problems downloading, formatting or reading either of the books I’ve purchased. The wi-fi works fine and as soon as I entered my security key it connected without a problem.
The Nook doesn’t have a web browser available like the Kindle does, and the Kindle browser did come in handy one time when I needed to check my gmail account. Though it worked, the experience was anything like browsing on a regular computer or even on a cell phone. So, I can’t say that I miss having the browser available. A software update that was pushed out for the Nook last week (version 1.1.1) did improve page turns by leaps and bounds and my Nook is running relatively fast and fuss free. I own a Kindle 2 also and I have to say the experience I get from either device is fairly similar. Though so far I find myself heading for the Nook when I want to read something.
The only real drawback I’ve found so far is that Barnes & Noble claims a 10-day battery life. So far, this has been a tad disappointing as I’ve only managed to get maybe 48 hours. And I don’t leave any of the network connections turned on when using my Nook. The Kindle battery life seems to deliver much more as advertised as I’ve left the Kindle on standby for at least a week before with little to no battery drain.
Hi again, my faithful Tekkie freak readers. We now have a great new look for 2010. While I absolutely loved my old Theme, it was a little bit busy and tough to read. So I went with a new and simpler theme and I’m absolutely loving it.
My goals for 2010 are many, but I’m hoping to get our forums up and running. I hope to provide everyone with tons of great information on latest gadgets. I’ve been focusing mostly on electronic reading devices such as the Barnes and Noble Nook and Amazon’s Kindle.
Please head over to our Tekkie Freak forums where I hope to get some great discussions going. Thanks for all your ongoing support in 2009, and here’s to a fabulous 2010. I wish everyone a Happy and Healthy 2010.
Here’s a great video walk through of the Barnes and Noble nook. Palmsolo does a great job of showing how
everything works. Looking up words etc. I’ve already bought one book on my Nook and have some free ones that I was able to download. Enjoy the walk through. More to come.
So people are starting to receive their pre-ordered Nooks. This is a really good unboxing so you really get an idea how the packaging is. A little strange how there are actually instructions on how to take it out of the box. Environmentally friendly packaging? Um, probably not. Does this mean I have to go buy some carbon credits?
Well, My Nook arrived today. I managed to get some great unboxing photos for you guys. I haven’t tried it yet, so I don’t have much more to tell you yet. If you click on the little “i” you can see my witty comments. I’m going to go look for a little bit different gallery skin, so you can see my captions without clicking anything, but for now this is how it is.
Sorry folks, yet again I don’t have any racy videos to share. We here at Tekkie Freak try to be a family friendly web site. But, I thought you all might enjoy seeing the marketing vid that Barnes and Noble has released to show off their new ebook reading device: nook. The name kind of makes me feel like I should be having tea inside a huge tree trunk with a gnome or something…but I’m guessing that’s what they were going for. After all, I always like to feel cozy and drink my coffee while reading. Enjoy:
