Nook Color is Here!

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

Because battery life does matter to folks, especially people who travel.

wireless off

• Nook = 10 hours
• Nook Color = 8 hours

Not much difference.

[EricDP]

Originally Posted by ZombieEatsYou

...is that a crudload of fingerprints on the screen? fail.

Yeah, that's what turned me off the newer Sonys too. I hate anything on my reading screen, even dust annoys me. I keep my reading screen very clean. I don't want to read on a touch screen.

[ProfCrash]

There is a reason that I am not involved in marketing and R&D for tech companies so I could be totally wrong. I don't doubt that people will buy it but I am not seeing topics here or at Nook boards or at Kindle Boards (there is a place to discuss the Nook and a decent number of folks seem to have a Kindle and a Nook) talking about how excited they are to pre-order one. I know this is in stark contrast to when the K2 and K3 were released. I am guessing it is in stark contrast to when the Nook was released. And if boards devoted to mobile readers do not seem to have people jumping up and down with excitement, what makes you think that this is making much of a wave with the masses?

I hope for BN sake that this does well but I continue to be baffelled. It appears to me to be a hybrid device that is easily replaced with a tablet, for those wanting color, or an e-ink ereader, for those who want to read books primarily and are cool with saving a decent chunk of change. B&N do not have the cool rep that Apple does so people are not going to flock to the device for that reason.

I like the competition. It pushes Amazon to make a better product. I like that more people are reading e-books, it means more books released as e-books. These are good things for me even if I don't own a Nook. And I like debating with you folks, it is fun.

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

top: iPad / Samsung Galaxy

middle: Nook Color

bottom: Velocity Cruz / Pandigital Novel

I doubt that will be the case in a month.

wireless off
Nook = 10 hours
Nook Color = 8 hours
Not much difference.

I seem to recall you saying that one reason you would not buy a Nook was because of the battery life. So is 8 hours of battery life good enough for you?

And it does not appear that the battery is replaceable so you can't even carry a charged second battery with you to augment the battery life.

[monkeyluis]

Originally Posted by MV64

You can reduce the brightness but it's still going to create more eye strain than e-ink. It's just a fact. Some people aren't as susceptible to it, but especially to people who work on computers all day, they're not going to want to stare at more backlight. I work on a computer in a brightly lit room and I get headaches and eye strain from the backlight. Dimming it will help, but it's not the same.

However, if it doesn't affect you, you're lucky. But it's not like it's some imaginary thing for it to affect the vast majority of people.

I work on 2 LCDs for 8 hrs a day in a bright room & I do just fine.

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

I seem to recall you saying that one reason you would not buy a Nook was because of the battery life. So is 8 hours of battery life good enough for you?

And it does not appear that the battery is replaceable so you can't even carry a charged second battery with you to augment the battery life.

That's right, I wasn't going to buy a Nook, because its battery life was too short for my needs. I was holding out for Nook 2, but now that's out the window with the release of Nook Color. Now I have no idea what I'm going to do for my eInk reader, except compromise.

As to my interest in Nook Color, it's because I was also in the market for a 7" tablet. I was hoping to get a full spec'd Android tablet, but with each announcement of a new release, I kept getting disillusioned as one company another decided to treat them like smart phones and offer them up to wireless carriers at outrageous prices.

So Nook Color comes as a pleasant surprise. If it can do email, surf the web, and read my color content, then its all the tablet I need.

Even if I get the Color, I'm still getting an eInk reader.

[eAnagnostis]

I am wondering if Nook Color has a MULTI-touch screen. In the video over at Engadget and in one of the official ads at YouTube (0:28) there seems to be multi-touch enabled. But no one mentions multi-touch whatsoever, neither B&N nor in websits and blog, which is peculiar - it would be too killer a feature to downplay it. Does anybody know what is going on?

[ProfCrash]

What is a multi touch screen?

It might be that they are downplaying it because most folks have no clue about the different types of touchscreen.

[eAnagnostis]

In these videos there are two-finger pinch-to-zoom gestures

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by luvmy4brats

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.

Well, I think they're targeting people who DON'T have a Kindle, a Nook, and an iPad, but are perhaps looking for their first e-reader/multimedia gadget.

[eGeezer]

Multitouch is one with that "pinch and zoom" capability.

"Monotouch", if you please, is one you can touch or swipe, but can't "pinch and zoom".

I did notice the "pinch/zoom" used (just once) in one of the nook website videos. It was during a demo of the magazines, so Im not sure it also has that capability during book reading.

But they were also demonstrating the "article zoom" (or something like that) where you could touch a magazine article and it would appear zoomed in. This is necessary, of course, because a full magzine displayed on the screen would be unreadable by any but the youngest eyes.

[ProfCrash]

Originally Posted by eGeezer

Multitouch is one with that "pinch and zoom" capability.

"Monotouch", if you please, is one you can touch or swipe, but can't "pinch and zoom".

I did notice the "pinch/zoom" used (just once) in one of the nook website videos. It was during a demo of the magazines, so Im not sure it also has that capability during book reading.

But they were also demonstrating the "article zoom" (or something like that) where you could touch a magazine article and it would appear zoomed in. This is necessary, of course, because a full magzine displayed on the screen would be unreadable by any but the youngest eyes.

Thank you.

I am guessing that they will demonstrate said capability for folks but not name it in commericals and the like because most folks don't know the difference.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by monkeyluis

I work on 2 LCDs for 8 hrs a day in a bright room & I do just fine.

I put in up to 12 hours a day reading from an LCD display in a bright room, and have done so for about 15 years. Yes, occasionally my eyes bother me a little bit when I have to put in a 12-hour day, but that would also happen in the olden days when I was working with paper.

[eAnagnostis]

Originally Posted by ProfCrash

I am guessing that they will demonstrate said capability for folks but not name it in commericals and the like because most folks don't know the difference.

Well, OK, but they don't mention it anywhere, not in their website, in their detailed press release.

And the tryth is that due to iPad and smartphones many have become familiar with the concept and B&N would mention anything that would make their Nook Color look like a full tablet PC.

[ProfCrash]

I think they are familiar with the concept but not its formal name. If they mentioned the "pinch and expand method" then people would get what they are talking about. I am not so certain folks know "Multitouch". (shrugs)

[Rebo]

I am pretty sure that I saw the “pinch and zoom” in the Engadget video so I assume that it has multi-touch. On the other hand, in the video, during the reading demo, the guy had to select a menu to change fonts so that means no multi-touch for reading. Now I am confused.