@Syliss: Aren't there a bunch of cases that add a 3G radio and sim card to an iPod touch?

@Les Mikesell: The problem is a great deal of their profit comes from selling you a useless, ludicrous amount of minutes for a highly inflated price, and forcing you to use that as a base for ANY phone.

@gstatty: Messenger bags are a great way to tote stuff around stylishly while not looking like a d-bag.

@Qwerty231: But you'd still be tied to an AT&T voice plan...

@TheAlmeida: The dual analogue design of the PS3 controller is still seeded by the hacked together dual analogue from the PS1. Every modern gamer that isn't a PS fanboy knows that for todays analogue stick centric games, having the left stick front and center is the ideal situation.

@Weiman: Yeah the batteries they include last about a 10th of the time a good pair of alkaline or rechargeables last... it's just not worth it.

@RtFusion: Used to be about 1 in 2 to 1 in 3 in my light experience on it...

@j.walk3: Actually since this thing has the same resolution as the iPad, magazines would look exactly the same, albeit just a bit smaller.

@jdale: The rule isn't tablets, it's no android market access on devices without a 3G radio.

@kerry: Sorry to burst your bubble but it IS a fully functioning android tablet. If you'd have read any of the articles you'd know B&N were even starting their own app market just for the thing, and heavily promoting it to developers like pandora.

@mricyfire: Wrong. It is a fully featured tablet, with B&N even going to far as to create it's own app market because non-3G devices can't use the android market.

@Frazzle Snazzle Bleeble Blabble: It does have a 'special' antiglare coating that looks really good in pictures. That and the screen itself looks very crisp and clear, owing to the very high pixel density.

@Ian Logsdon: It is the same resolution screen as on the iPad so other than looking a bit smaller things on the nook and the ipad would appear the same.

@tucker augie'ben'doggy: If it can actually do everything they say it can do for that price... This thing is going to be awesome. Very crisp, easy to read screen, web browsing, actual made-for-tablet apps (unlike the galaxy tab, for which the wifi model will have NO app market...) and this thing is looking pretty good.

@ortizlgnd4: But the thing is the iPhone always had apps load pretty fast, and when you exited them they saved state, so multitasking was never really an issue except for background services.

@RtFusion: CD? I still have the original shareware diskette that came in the mail!

@ho0lee0h: XMB is a great UI for a D-pad, but I think it would not transfer over well at all to a touchscreen interface.

@blehbleh13: You were warned. Multiple times.

@swenson: I think the version online is a quite dumbed down version of the real one.

@Platypus Man: No, not really. This thing is designed to be an e-book centric tablet. They're releasing their own app market for this thing! It can play videos, it can surf the web. It's a budget tablet that's also tightly integrated with the nook software.