Bookseller Barnes and Noble has refurbished its popular 7-inch color e-book readers today. Simply known as the Nook Tablet, the brand new version will cost $249 beginning in a few days, featuring a 1GHz dual-core processor to energy playback of HD movies, videos and television shows. You will see a number of applications and games offered at launch too. Angry Wild birds anybody
Visually, the unit seems just like the presently-available Nook Color e-readers, yet its internal specs result in the Nook Tablet a lot more like a tablet than an e-readers having a color screen hence the title. Named will face steep competition in the $199 Amazon . com Amazon Kindle Fire going to be out in a few days, that has been long awaited because of its aggressive cost and deep integration of Amazon . com content.
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Around the content front, Barnes and Noble's tablet can come preloaded with Netflix and Hulu Plus applications, featuring 1080p video playback and nine-hour battery existence for watching videos, together with music from The planet pandora and content in the built-in Barnes and Noble e-book store. The readable content consists of a huge variety of ebooks, but additionally sports 250+ magazines along with a large assortment of digital comics from popular marketers.
Barnes and Noble has additionally been working carefully with application designers to produce versions of popular Android applications that'll make use of the Nook Color's 7-inch 1024x600-resolution touch screen. Unlike other Android pills and phones, however, the Nook Tablet will not feature full use of the Android Market and all sorts of the applications therein.
For rivaling Amazon's Amazon Kindle Fire and apparently to warrant the Nook Tablet's more costly cost Barnes and Noble Boss William Lynch stated the Nook Tablet includes a better screen (it is the "first fully-laminated display" featuring a wider viewing position), double the amount on-board memory (16GB versus the Kindle Fire's 8GB), it's lighter, and contains double the amount RAM from the Amazon Kindle Fire (1GB versus 512MB).
The Nook Tablet is going to be available in a few days at various merchants (and Barnes and Noble stores, obviously) for $249. The beginning cost for that Nook Color has dropped to $199.
The cost of Barnes and Noble's "Nook Simple Touch" black and whitened e-ink e-book readers has additionally dropped from $139 to $99. The merchandise continues to be slightly refurbished to provide as much as two several weeks of reading through on one charge and what Barnes and Noble states is 25% faster page turns than every other e-ink product. Its primary competition from Amazon . com may be the Kindle Wi-Fi, which costs $79 for that "Special DealsInch version that loads up advertisements around the device's screen if not being used. Amazon's ad-free version runs for $109.
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