Barnes & Noble has announced that the highly-anticipated launch of the Nook e-reader will be pushed back one week due to overly high demand, with the gadget now hitting retail shops on December 7th.
Just last week the book retailer announced that the Nook was out of stock and any consumer purchasing after the 20th would not receive their device until January 4th, or even later.
B&N also notes that there will be a “very limited number” of Nooks in stores and that most of their current supply will be shipped out to those who pre-ordered online. The device costs $259 USD.
The Nook is the first e-reader that is expected to significantly compete with market leader Amazon’s Kindle, and the Nook has superior hardware including Wi-Fi, a microSD slot for added memory and a second touch screen, in color, which is used for control and navigation. The Kindle has none of those features, but does have superior battery life.
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Verizon has announced at CTIA today that it will be releasing a rebranded version of the HTC Touch dubbed the Verizon XV6900.
The exceptional touchscreen device is almost exactly like the the Touch but with a white color scheme instead of the usual black. The XV6900 retains “HTC’s custom TouchFlo front-end software, a 2-megapixel camera, and Office Mobile editing.” The new device also has faster 3G Internet access.
The company says the phone stays as close to the HTC Touch as possible, aside from a few slight improvements to the Windows Mobile 6 interface. The device will be available in Verizon’s online and retail shops by the end of April and will sell for $350 USD with a two-year contract.
