Nook Color Review: The Ebook Reader That Looks Like A Tablet
Nook Color Review: The Ebook Reader That Looks Like A Tablet
Considering that book giant Barnes & Noble only introduced the Nook in the fall of 2009, it came as a pleasant surprise that only a year later a Nook Color edition is already out. Touted as the "reader's tablet", we'll find out in this Nook Color review just what the Barnes & Noble Nook Color offers, whether as a tablet as an ebook reader.
Size. Compared to the e-ink version of the Nook ereader, the Nook color is a tad bigger and heavier. Weighing a solid 15.8 ounces, it is 8.1 inches long, with a width of 5 inches and a depth of 0.5 inch. The frontportion of the device consists of hard plastic while the back has a smooth, rubber backing.
Design. Throw out your expectations of the Nook Color being just another ebook reader, only with a colored screen; this ereader may easily be mistaken for a tablet PC. Unlike the usual ereaders which use e-ink technology, this one comes with a 7-inch full color LED-backlit IPS display. This type of display is in fact, the same kind of display technology that Apple uses on the iPad and Mac. The Nook Color though, is enhanced with Barnes & Nobles custom VividView Technology, a kind of screen laminating technique that serves to reduce the glare.
Performance. The Nook Color's program is based on the Android 2.1, the widely-used operating system running on a big number of smartphones and tablets in the market today. In this Barnes & Noble device, the Android-based software delivers the goods.
Nook Color users are all praises for the ereader's fast performance, quick page turns, intuitive and responsive touchscreen, and crisp, clear images and text. Even browsing through PDFs and picture galleries are said to be a total breeze.
What's New
In coming out with a colored ebook reading device, Barnes & Noble has also made sure that the attention that it's gotten so far is not all hype. The Nook Color now has added functionality including web browsing, Pandora music app, email, and video playbacks, and it's also designed to work with B & N's new features and technologies.
The Nook Kids brand has over a hundred fully-illustrated children's ebooks that will come alive when read on the Nook Color, and the NookFriends technology is a way of sharing meaningful passages to other Nook users through Facebook and Twitter. Then of course, Barnes & Noble also retains its book sharing feature, the exclusive LendMe technology.
Barnes & Noble Nook Color Review: What's the Verdict?
The company has really gone out of its way to release an ebook reader that's not only sleek and feature-packed, but is reasonably-priced as well. For $249, you already get a gadget that let's you do not only ebook reading but a lot of other functions as well.
But of course, it's far from being a perfect device. Its battery life for instance, is too short for an ereader. The 8 hours it offer pales in comparison with battery performance of other ereaders which use e-ink. Also, even with its VividView treatment, the LCD display could still get reflective and possibly even cause eye strain after a few hours.
The bottom line of this Nook Color review is that it's all a matter of preference. The Nook Color is certainly ideal if you like its tablet-like features, and if your family's reading fare mostly consists of magazines, children's books, cookbooks and other content that requires color. However, for long form reading of mostly text ebooks, e-ink ebook readers are still the better choice.
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