Friday, November 18, 2011

Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet

The reader's tablet is back. The new Nook Tablet delivers the best color e-reading experience available, especially for magazines and for childrens' books. It's a better e-reader than the Amazon Kindle Fire ($199, 4 stars), our Editors' Choice for small tablets. But the Nook doesn't quite match the Fire on music, video or apps, and the Nook Color ($199, 4 stars) offers the same great e-reading experience for less money. Make no mistake, the Nook is a very good small tablet, but the Fire delivers a better all-around tablet experience, and the Nook Color offers better value as a color e-reader.


Physical Design and User Interface
Feeling a little more 'book-like' than the Amazon Kindle Fire, the Nook Tablet is significantly taller and slightly wider at 8.1 by 5.9 by 0.5 inches (HWD) thanks to its much bigger bezel, but it's lighter at 14.1 ounces compared with Amazon's 14.6. There's a standard 3.5-mm headphone jack, and a curious little loop in the bottom left corner, which serves as both a handle and a way to conceal the reader's MicroSD card slot, just like on the Nook Color. In fact the Nook Tablet and the Nook Color are almost identical save for the a slightly lighter-color metallic finish. The Tablet has physical Power button and volume controls on the side panels as well as a single, "N"-shaped home button at the bottom of the 7-inch, 1024-by-600 touch screen.








10 comments:

  1. I might have a chance of owning one of these with the new lowered price

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  2. I alweys aksing myself: Why i Should kindle or nook, when i can buy notebook, tablet. These have more funcitons than this nook :)

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  3. i don't really see the point of this thing...

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  4. 100% is better to buy tablet pc (Android)

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  5. i need one of this and hope on buying it

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  6. My GF has one of these, they're great :)

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  7. Excellent. My Wife wants one of these!

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  8. wifi, web browsing youtube and reader is what i need, i am expectib to buy me a nice tablet this weekend, wish me luck!

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  9. I'm not a big fan of tablets, but if I had a ton of money I would buy one to read manga or comics, haha!

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