Barnes & Noble NOOK WiFi e-book reader
by Sze | Filed under Portable Media
B&N announced the new NOOK WiFi, the latest addition to the NOOK by Barnes & Noble family. The new NOOK WiFi is almost identical to the original NOOK. It provides WiFi connectivity but lacks 3G.
Like the original NOOK, the new WiFi-only NOOK is an e-book reader based on Android. It features a 6-inch e-ink disaplay, a 3.5-inch color touchscreen below the e-ink, 2GB internal memory and a microSD card slot.
The new NOOK WiFi is priced at $149. Barnes & Noble also announced lower price for NOOK 3G+WiFi at $199.
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[...] Barnes & Noble (B&N) introduces its all-new NOOK e-book reader with a touchscreen. The new NOOK is called by B&N as The Simple Touch Reader.It features a 6-inch e-ink Pearl display with Zeforce infrared touchscreen, like the new Kobo eReader Touch, that allows users to turn pages, look up words, highlight passages, adjust the font size and style easily. The newly-designed lightweight, slim reader is 35 percent lighter and 15 percent thinner than NOOK Wi-Fi 1st Edition. [...]