Barnes & Noble introduced the first ever full-color touchscreen eReader, NOOKcolor. NOOKcolor is ready to be pre-ordered online (NOOKcolor.com) and from Barnes and Noble stores tomorrow for $249. Barnes and Noble will begin shipping NOOKcolor on or about November 19, right in time for holidays. NOOKcolor will also be available at Best Buy, Walmart and Books-A-Million starting late November.
The NOOKcolor, 7-inch full-color touch device is built on Android and has 8GB of space with expandable up to 32GB with a microSD card. 8GB of space can hold approximately 6,000 NOOKbooks or it could hold “1,000 books, 25 full-color magazines, 10 newspapers, 50 kids’ books, 500 songs and 150 photos”.
NOOKcolor has built-in W-Fi and also features a micro-USB port. It weighs just 15.8 ounces and is portable with sizes 8.1 inches (height) by 5 inches (width) by 0.48 inches (depth). It also features full browser to browse the web using Wi-Fi. Barnes and Noble says in its press release that
NOOKcolor opens up a whole new world of digital reading materials of all kinds, in addition to providing access to the largest bookstore with an unprecedented selection of over two million digital titles a single search away.
NOOKcolor also lets user transfer and view their personal documents. The supported files include PDF, ePub, JPG, PNG, GIF and BMP files.One can also customize their wallpaper with personal photos. With Quickoffice software, one can view Microsoft® Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint. William Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes &; Noble said
NOOKcolor enables Web browsing over Wi-Fi, music, games and much more, but reading anything and everything in brilliant color is the killer app and squarely the product’s focus. At $249, NOOKcolor offers a tremendous value, particularly in comparison to the many other 7-inch tablets coming to market at twice the cost and often requiring expensive data plans. Most importantly, NOOKcolor is designed for and differentiated by what Barnes Noble knows best: reading.
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