Barnes and Noble only just unveiled the Nook 2, aka The Simple Touch Reader, yesterday at Union Square. We were on-hand for the event and got some exclusive hands on video with the new e-reader.
It seems they really want to build some separation from the Kindle line of e-readers. They mentioned this on the stage during the product release by saying their e-reader only had 1 button, 37 less then the kindle.
Today Barnes and Noble issued an email to me from their press department giving some comparisons regarding the battery life.
With up to two months on a single charge, the All-New NOOK has the longest-battery life in the industry and superior battery performance to Kindle 3. In our side-by-side tests, under the exact same conditions, continuous use of the device resulted in more than two times Kindle’s battery life. While reading at one page a minute, the All-New NOOK battery lasts for 150 hours where the Kindle battery, using the same page-turn rate, lasts for only 56 hours (both with Wi-Fi off). We’ve also done a continuous page turn test and at one page turn per second, the All-New NOOK offers more than 25,000 continuous page turns on a single charge.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
