http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
I'm still waiting for pixel qi...]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/ im guessing the makers of the nook have no stamina to let out there product when its to its full flegded appeal instead of keeping the updates going throughout the product respiration. I am astounded that the audacity these people have to actually like the nook now! i mean this is a shock and a half to say the least, this changes everything! the nook was now a world industry leader,,, now has become some what of a cheerleader to the amaon kindle. in all efforts to avoid a poor review, i will not purchase the nook like intended. i am not a faan like i was and i amd just a round about and a half about thsi kind of junk! not to mention the incredible least you can do is give it a web browser kinds of people. make me a real fan by iintriducing the nook 5g ]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/What the hell did you just attempt to say?]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Obviously no color, no moving images, but the greyscale rendering is very nice - clear, crisp.
There's a little posterization, especially on natural images, like people's faces, but that's to be expected.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
The READ IN STORE feature is a very cool idea. With the Nook running Linux I'm sure it's just a matter of time before somebody cracks this thing allowing it to cache entire books so you can still read them for free when you leave the store. Still at $260 I wouldn't be interested in one of these...unless I lived right next door to B&N and we had very thin walls.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Seems like you're trying too hard to get your point across...

Pushing on the toilet doesn't make it come out faster. ]]>Apr 23rd 2010 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/4 bars, anything less and it's dog slow, like phone). If you use Advanced mode, they look much like they do on the computer. Of course, it's a bit mixed up, but anyone who follows w3c close enough will work great! It's free to, so I check my email on it - I don't pay for data on my cell phone now.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/My guess would be slim to nil. That would require an app for buying and reading the book since Amazon uses a proprietary ebook format.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
Would be better if they'd all just settle on one format (like mp3). I get the feeling epub is headed there, but I'm not sure how it will all shake out with DRM. Can I read any epub (with any drm) on a nook? I got the impression that was the case.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/are you ready to hear a very unpopular statement and is the only reason i want a nook? because you can torrent pretty much any book you want. no need for amazon!]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
1. Amazon does not care about Kindle, as they said they care about selling books no matter what vehicle they use. If nook is super best selling device, Amazon will do anything to make their books pop up on B&N device.

2. Books are a bit different than music. You listen to songs over and over and move them around from PC to PC to gym to ... with books, you read it once and then you are done (maybe few years later you read it again). They obviously don't want DRM free books, the torrent sites would explode. I actually don't mind Amazon's DRM. I can re-download books anytime into any device Amazon supports for free (and they support pretty decent range of devices). ]]>Apr 23rd 2010 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/If you are looking to buy books from different retailers I would say your best bet is an Ipad. You have the Apple book store, Amazon book store and coming soon the B&N book store. ]]>Apr 23rd 2010 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 24th 2010 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 24th 2010 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
Of course *facepalm* I don't keep an regular eye out for Nook info.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Not quite true, at least for me. The whole point of an ebook reader is that I can get books and read them easily no matter where I am.
Also I have, on many occasions, been at the mall with the woman and stopped into a book store for _lengthy_ periods of time while she shopped at yet another inane store. This could pay off.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 10:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
Think before you type.
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The web browser looks pretty good: you get the full page up top with a section of the page on the color screen. As you move around the page by dragging, a selection box up top shows you where you are.
All-in-all, not too bad. Not great, but I might use it when I don't want to dig out a netbook but my phone screen is just too small.

The games are... cute. Don't care. I can't play a game and read at the same time obviously, so... whatever. I got this thing to read books.

On the other hand, there's still no way to go *directly to a page number!* and the music player can't distinguish folders, artists, or albums. It's just one big, long list.

TO SUMMARIZE:
They added a handful of impressive new features, and fixed nothing that's been broken since version 1.0

*sigh* B&N, stop trying to compete with the ipad and remember why people buy your device in the first place!.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
I just installed it too. The most important thing for an e-reader; the update does seem to make the page flips slightly faster. I would say it is only marginally slower than the kindle now....about time.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
That's SOOO effin annoying. Especially when you're reading a free book from Google books and the TOC is completely worthless. I've actually stopped reading a book because I was 150 pages in and the nook locked up. After I rebooted I was back at the fist page without a table of contents. Ugh.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
Most times, if I'm around wi-fi, I'm near a computer anyway, and the whole reason I wanted a browser on my nook was for the times I WASN'T near a computer.

My only guess is that their deal with AT&T must stipulate that they can only use the bare minimum of data, and that they feel that putting their bowser on the 3G would violate that.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 9:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
There will be a hack for it I'm sure to trick the 3g looking like wifi. The update was pretty good!]]>Apr 23rd 2010 10:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 9:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/


(aww come on, like I'm on the only one who thought it...)]]>Apr 23rd 2010 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
I'm sure they will make a patch for it on nookdevs]]>Apr 23rd 2010 10:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/
There will be an exploit for it I'm sure pretty soon.]]>Apr 23rd 2010 10:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/23/nook-gets-web-browser-free-in-store-reading-and-games-in-new-f/Apr 23rd 2010 10:24AM