{"id":99875,"date":"2009-12-22T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jkontherun.com\/?p=52901"},"modified":"2009-12-22T09:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T14:00:38","slug":"nook-firmware-update-speeds-page-turns-adds-in-store-promos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/99875","title":{"rendered":"Nook Firmware Update Speeds Page Turns, Adds In-Store Promos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LyA_pSKvooc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LyA_pSKvooc&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0xe1600f&#038;color2=0xfebd01\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>One of the first videos of the Barnes &amp; Noble Nook was Matt Miller&#8217;s and I wondered how he could tolerate the slow page refresh. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geardiary.com\/2009\/12\/13\/the-barnes-or-how-i-managed-to-completely-waste-my-saturday-on-a-piece-of-over-hyped-hardware\/\">Others weren&#8217;t too happy with the relatively sluggish performance and unfinished feel<\/a>, but a firmware update just hit for the Nook, so it&#8217;s too early to condemn it. Once upgraded, Matt&#8217;s Nook showed some improvement, but it&#8217;s still a bit laggy for my tastes. Above you can get a good idea of the page refresh speed because Matt compares it to his Sony Reader PRS-505, as he did on day one of Nook ownership. Instead of taking twice as long as the Sony, the Nook has caught up a little &#8212; it&#8217;s still not as fast as the Sony, but it&#8217;s a\u00a0noticeable\u00a0improvement, thanks to version 1.1 of the firmware.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/mobile-gadgeteer\/?p=2317\">Matt also shares some details on the in-store experience<\/a> and that&#8217;s where his Nook has a marked advantage over my Amazon Kindle. Aside from in-store content, Matt received a promo for a free cookie. The best I get with my Kindle in that case is five bars of EVDO &#8212; maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.gigaom.com\/amazon\/\">Amazon<\/a> will send me a cookie with the next Kindle firmware update?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=jkontherun.com&#038;blog=4479943&#038;post=52901&#038;subd=jkontherun&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first videos of the Barnes &amp; Noble Nook was Matt Miller&#8217;s and I wondered how he could tolerate the slow page refresh. Others weren&#8217;t too happy with the relatively sluggish performance and unfinished feel, but a firmware update just hit for the Nook, so it&#8217;s too early to condemn it. Once upgraded, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}