As with books, the most recent app items stack to the left, and scroll to the right. On the Nook Color’s home screen, app icons will behave just as book and periodical icons do today: They’ll appear in the active shelf at the bottom, and you can pull them out to rest on the home screen itself.
Installed apps will be accessible via the Apps folder, but those apps that are interactive books will also end up in the Nook Color’s library, and organized on shelves.
At the storefront, you can shop for apps separately–or, if the item you’re looking for is a book app, you’ll find it interspersed with e-book offerings.īuy an app in a single click, and it will download and install onto the Nook Color. The new apps sold via the B&N storefront will range in price, with half the collection available at launch costing $3 or less. These apps join the other stock offerings on the Nook Color, which include Chess, Contacts, Crossword Puzzle, Gallery, Pandora Internet Radio, and Sudoku apps. Calendar and note-taking apps also come with the free update. In the new OS, users get e-mail, with presets for AOL Mail, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail already in place no Exchange server support is built-in, but an app is available for that.