Barnes & Noble's NOOK Simple Touch is an inexpensive eBook reader with an E Ink display. It's designed for reading ebooks and not much else… yet.
While the NOOK Simple Touch features WiFi, all you can do with it right note is browse the B&N book store and download content. But according to a leaked memo obtained by TechCrunch, you could soon be able to surf the web or check your email.
The move reportedly comes at least partially thanks to the strong response B&N received after updating the software on the NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ by adding support for the Google Play Store. Apparently people like devices better when they offer more functionality. Who woulda thunk?
The NOOK Simple Touch already runs an Android-based operating system, so adding web browser ans email clent apps should be pretty simple. Whether it's easy to surf the web or respond to messages using an on-screen keyboard on a device with a grayscale display and a slow screen refresh rate is another question.
According to TechCrunch, the update will apply to both the NOOK Simple Touch and the Simple Touch with GlowLight.
Amazon has long offered a web browser as one of the "experimental" features on its Kindle eReaders. But the company has never included a dedicated email client.
B&N to update NOOK Simple Touch with web browser, email client is a post from: Liliputing
Posts
