Barnes & Noble Launches Nook Tablet – Preorder Starts

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Tablet lovers, here comes one more player in this competitive market. Barnes and Noble have launched Nook tablet, a new addition to the Nook family. According to the company, this is the “fastest, lightest tablet with the best in HD entertainment”. We’ll need to wait for the review to see if it really is the fastest and lightest tablet out there.

Nook Tablet Specs and Features

Nook tablet

The New Nook Tablet

Let’s get into the nitty gritty details of this new player. Nook tablet features 7-inch VividView Color Touchscreen, 16 million+ colors with IPS2 display. Resolution is 1024 X 600, 169 pixels per inch. Tablet can render 1080p without any problem.

Talking about storage, this tablet offers 16 GB built-in memory with the option to expand up to 32GB using microSD memory card. In regards to battery, it can give up to 11.5 hours of reading or 9 hours of video (with Wi-Fi turned off).

This new tablet can offer over 2.5 million books, newspapers, magazines, kids books and comics & graphic novels; favorite movies and TV shows from Netflix and Hulu Plus; millions of songs to choose from; thousands of apps, emails, web surfing and much more.

Nook tablet is available for $249 and can now be pre-ordered from their official site. And that’s not all, the new and improved NOOK Simple Touch can be bought at $99, while NOOK Color is also attractively priced at $199.

Do you think this could offer Kindle Fire a run for its money? For now, this tablet has definitely got and edge over Kindle Fire – inbuilt microphone, double the storage, more RAM and better display.

Take a guided tour of the new NOOK Tablet

360 Degree view of this device



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