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Section: Gadgets / Other, ebooks, Household, Miscellaneous
The iPad is all the rage right now and it is threatening many different devices in many markets. Specifically, it is threatening to destroy the eReader market after it just barely reached its prime this Christmas. Recent advancements by Amazon and Barnes & Noble have resulted in their products being placed in Target and Best Buy respectively. But Barnes & Noble has more up their sleeve than just putting the Nook in different retail stores. Instead, they are planning many changes to their device to make it more competitive.
One big letdown of the Nook is the lack of a web browser. Sure, you really didn’t but it to go online but both the Kindle and iPad have web browsers on them, albeit the Kindle’s is a bit iffy. So B&N is sending out a firmware update (supposedly in the next few weeks) that will add a web browser to your nook. Not sure how that might work with that tiny touchscreen on the bottom but we can hope they tried to make things simple. Maybe just making the touchscreen something like a laptop’s trackpad wouldn’t be that bad.
Next change is a cheaper Nook. Like the iPad, B&N will offer a wi-fi only Nook for $199. So you won’t be able to buy books in the park, but hopefully you were going there planning on having something to read anyway. Though the 3G might be helpful with that new browser, 400,000 wi-fi only iPad’s prove that people don’t care. The device is rumored to be ready by the end of Spring.
And the big news is a Nook sequel. Codenamed Project Encore, the next edition of the Nook will be ready by the end of the year. Other than that, not much is known.
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