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I'd have to agree that B&N made the right choice in retaining physical page turn buttons. It is small and light enough to hold and operate in one hand easily, but if you are holding it in your left hand, how is your thumb supposed to reach across the screen to touch the right side and advance the page?
Also the new nook does have a Bluetooth chip in there (part of the chipset they are using). I'm not sure if it can be turned on, but if so, and the chipset also includes audio, there's a possibility that it could support wireless audio, keyboard etc. Eliminating the physical audio components like volume control, speaker, output plug would reduce the manufacturing cost while still leaving open the possibility of supporting audio at some point (not that there's any internal storage for it). At least we can hope that's the case until it is proven otherwise.
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