More Nookish Questions

[jumpuphigh]

I'm thinking about getting a Nook for the 3G capabilities. I'm about to be travelling a lot and although I'll have my laptop with me, I won't always have wireless access in places.

I'm wondering how well it works. Can I access any webpage with the 3G? My friend just has wireless and I was able to access DW although it was squished in all the wrong places. Any problems that you've encountered? Mostly, I would want to read my email, read DW & Tweet with it.

Feedback would be welcome. Thanks

Comments

[highways]

Where are you planning on doing the traveling? The Nook cannot really download stuff when you're out of the United States -- well, without annoying proxy stuff I haven't bothered with. They did not mention this to me when I bought it, even though I told them I was on the way to an airport to move to another country and was concerned about international use. (Lesson: have no faith in the salespeople.)

[jumpuphigh]

All US and I don't want the Nook for reading books. I just wanted an easier, more portable way to connect to the Net when I'm away from outlets and wireless signals.

When I checked out the Nook, the salesperson lied to me about a few things as well.

[highways]

To be fair, I doubt they lied so much as they were just totally incompetent

Honestly though, if you just want it for the Internet access I'd get something else? Like, there must be a cheaper or similarly priced device that actually does what you want to use it for -- the Nook does the Internet okay, I think, for a book reader. But it's really best for reading books and I think it'd get pretty annoying if you used it for nothing but the Internet.