Jophiel wrote:
I told Flea about your Nook/tablet thingie and now she wants one for her birthday Mother's Day Easter Good Friday tomorrow morning.
Here's my review after using it for awhile.
It's small for browsing if the site doesn't have a mobile app. I'll need to wear my granny glasses after all if I want to actually 'surf' the web. The bigger problem than the visuals though is using the finger touch with very small smished together links. The typing pad, while bigger than a smart phones, is on the screen. Yet, it's just big enough that it doesn't work with the 'duel thumb' typing method. I gotta get a stylus. That should help. It's also a bit slower than standard browsing but not annoyingly so.
You can only access the web via wifi. Unlike the regular Nook it isn't sold with any 3g or 4g capabilities and there is no slot to plug it into the internet. I've not tried net shopping with it, except from B&N, but I think it will work ok. If I have enough money left in my bank account after a whirlwind weekend in the Windy City, I've got a basket full of stuff sitting on Amazon I want to get. I'll try and place the through order through nooky. It came loaded with Facebook, Twitter, and You Tube apps.
Atm, the only way to get files into your Nook is through a hardwire, excepting books you buy from the B&N store. They'll load them via wifi. It's doable though. I need to research this a bit more. I opened the silly
"Roadmap For America's Future" in pdf to read one night. The file was saved I think. Just not sure how to access it.
For a reader its awesome. For me, just the backlighting alone makes it worth the extra hundred bucks over the regular nook. But, the versatility of the formatting over the others is pretty sweet too....and of course color is nice. Placing bookmarks, highlighting text, taking notes are all easy. You get three free magazine trials when you buy it. I picked National Geo, Newsweek and Cosmo (my daughters pick). They were easy to read. I might actually subscribe to NG again.
I was impressed with the battery. Just using it to read it seems to go the full 8-hours that it claims. It slips to into massive power-saver sleep after a half minute or so of being idle, which stretches that. Browsing and 'searching' for connections burns up the battery much faster, but it's easy to switch off your wifi.
B&N hasn't yet come out with the 'android app' patch, so supposedly there is still more i can add to it's usability if I want. The lack of a camera kind of stinks. I'm not sure I'd rank it as a tablet yet...
Tablet Light maybe. The smaller size though makes it easy to fit into most standard purses:)
Edit - calling it "Nooky" will be offensive to some of your more prudish relatives.
Edited, Apr 12th 2011 1:55pm by Elinda 
