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That 8 hour battery life is with the wireless off. Once you turn the wireless on and/or decide to listen to Pandora, that battery is going to take a serious hit. If you plan on reading for awhile, you better stay close to an outlet or bring an extension cord. There's no user replaceable battery, so when it dies, you're out of luck.
I wanted to like it. I had every intention of buying it before the actual presentation (I'm a gadget junkie).. But that's because I had hoped we'd be getting something new and innovative. Um, no. I have a Kindle, a nook, and an iPad. I just don't see how or why I'd want to use this. It weighs nearly a pound, has a cruddy battery life, and just doesn't make sense to me.
I cannot figure out for the life of me who B&N is targeting with this. They did go out of their way to not mention it's actually an LCD screen, only calling it backlit and VividView.. People are going to think it's an e-ink screen... But it's not. Sorry, it's an iPad wannabe. I'll wait for new technology and stick with what I've got in the meantime.
But hey, you can hang charms on that "signature design element"
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