At these price points, the Color Book comes as an interesting alternative to all
the other color eReaders available out there, although you will have to go pretty low on features if you choose Energy Sistem's offering.
This first Fuji eReader looks a lot like several
other color ereaders hitting the market lately.
It looks a lot like several of
the other color ereaders coming onto the market lately like the Skytex Primer and Augen eReader.
Not exact matches
Ereaders that use e-ink displays can only show black and white, but
other devices, such as the iPad and Kindle Fire, easily display
color.
«CNET and
other leading industry reviewers have given The All - New NOOK and NOOK
Color their top Editor's Choice distinctions, and we're excited to bring our line of award - winning
eReading devices to OfficeMax customers in - store and online,» said Chris Peifer, Vice President, Digital Business Development at Barnes & Noble.
If you are looking for something like the iPad that can be used for
ereading as well as a multitude of
other things, you are not going to get that with the Nook
Color off the shelf.
One year after the release of the original Nook, Barnes and Noble introduced the Nook
Color, an ereader designed for reading newspapers, magazines, children's books, cookbooks, and other color content in addition to eb
Color, an
ereader designed for reading newspapers, magazines, children's books, cookbooks, and
other color content in addition to eb
color content in addition to ebooks.
The text is dark and defined, and the background
color appears slightly whiter than
other ereaders.
It doesn't have an adjustable frontlight
color like Kobo's
other ereaders, and it's not waterproof either, and again the lower resolution screen isn't ideal.
At present, the
eReader market is dominated by two screen technologies: the grayscale eInk displays found on the Kindle and a few
others and the
color LCD panels you'll see on devices like the Nook C
color LCD panels you'll see on devices like the Nook
ColorColor.
While eInk and every
other ePaper technology (except Bridgestone) have been talking about
color in 2011 or 2012, Fujitsu released their super-expensive
color eReader in Japan earlier this year.
Only
color epaper
other than Fujitsu's that's already available (not in
eReaders though).
Barnes and Noble began shipping the NOOKcolor
color LCD - based
ereader in 4Q10 to support children's books, periodicals, and
other graphically rich content.
eReaders have to deal with slow page refreshes, lack of
color, lack of support for video, and
other limitations.
See the
eReader Comparison table for full specifications of the Nook Tablet, and compare with
other tablets such the Nook
Color, Kindle Fire and Apple iPad.
Their
other device was released back in June, the Pandigital Novel Tablet, a 7 - inch multipurpose
ereader with a
color LCD touchscreen and an Android operating system.
o Multifunctional
eReaders with backlit LCD (liquid crystal) displays such as the iPad, Nook
Color, Amazon Fire and
other Android tablets.
Sure, there are
other good
eReaders out there for less money, but considering what you get with the Nook
Color I have to say it offers outstanding value for money.
Well, for Nook
Color owners I already have an answer: Android Gingerbread 2.3, Flash, hardware supported video playback, working HQ YouTube support, full functioning Android Market (from both Google and Amazon), overcloking capabilities, Bluetooth and many
other goodies that can transform your Nook
Color from a humble (albeit really cool
eReader) to a full featured (minus cameras) Android tablet for really cheap.