http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/10/25/nook.color/index.html?hpt=T2
The rumor is…Nook has it.
Color comes to reader tech?
by CJ | Oct 26, 2010 | Journal | 10 comments
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LOL! *Just* after I get myself a Kindle… which I don’t regret in the slightest, by the way. 🙂
My reading comprehension is off. Is that color eInk they are excited about or yet another back lit monstrosity? Seems like the excitement is over the Android bit. It was a poorly written article so I can’t be sure.
i have a feeling if it’s Android connected, it’s going to be more like an I-pad.
That’s fine. I much prefer e-ink for reading and having colour isn’t a priority. (I can read my Kindle outside in the sunlight which I-pad users can’t do.)
And here it is: backlit. http://money.cnn.com/2010/10/26/technology/nook/index.htm?hpt=T2
It depends on where you do most of your reading. Price is 249, and you can read it in the dark, but they have a ‘laminate’ surface that is supposed to reduce glare—I’m still not sure it’s good in the back yard or on the beach.
Do we know why ebooks may be available from one outlet but not another? It’s mentioned in the article and I find it odd that a company that carries the hb or pb version wouldn’t carry an existing ebook version.
Rights. Which rights were sold, in what format.
One benefit of the Kindle app on your PC (Mac or Win) or on iPhone or Android is that it does show color pictures, when the source image was in color.
However, I really wish my iPhone was readable in bright sunlight, or for that matter, that it didn’t dim the screen to save power so often, thus making the screen less readable. — Not that reading or typing much on a screen that small is something I prefer doing anyway. Here’s hoping another generation or two will have some benefits in that regard for the iPhone and iPad and iPod.
I’ve resisted the allure of the iPad and Kindle in favor of the better expected features of the next generation or so of those. I’m expecting the iPad and other tablets to eclipse the Kindle and Nook.
It’s definetly an LCD device rather than E-Ink. Sort of a mini Ipad. And hence with all the downsides, 8 hours battery (to start with) and glarey screen.
The http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104200 mobile read thread discussing it. (always a useful site for ereader details)
Obviously it has it’s uses, and if you’re a magazine / graphic novel reader it could be very good. Meanwhile the rest of us wait for the colour E-Ink, still due next year or so.
Actually I’m quite haoppy with my black and white screen, because I don’t read magazines or graphic novels, and I only look at the cover briefly.
While I would like an ereader with a color screen (e.g., a Mirasol screen, if they ever get that working right), my Kindle3 with its black and white text works great. I’m at the point where I don’t like reading regular books any more, and if I can’t get it on my Kindle I generally won’t buy it.
Color would be great for comics, graphic novels, etc., but having a non-backlit screen that I can read anywhere there’s light, with battery life measured in days and weeks rather than hours, seems to be working for me right now. Kindle gets it right in almost every category and lack of color is only a very minor inconvenience.