Nook Tablet: a true competitor for Kindle Fire

Barnes & Noble Announces Android Touch Pad 7 "at low prices to counter its competitor Amazon Kindle and Fire.


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The season may be very busy in the segment of touch pads, entry-level. U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble has announced the availability of its slate multimedia, Tablet Nook, in response to the attack of Amazon and its Kindle Fire.

The two competing models have the same characteristics are: IPS multitouch screen 7 "(resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels), TI OMAP processor double heart 1 GHz, WiFi 802.11 b / g / n ... but the Nook is characterized by a much more substantial RAM (1 GB 512 MB against Kindle for Fire) and a memory of 16GB expandable to 48 GB with SD card slot (only 8 GB of internal memory for Amazon model).

Lighter (412 grams against 499 grams for the tablet competitor) the Nook Tablet offers a range of comfortable 11 hours reading text and 9.5 hours in video mode. This superior technology is paid for by a tariff increase of 50 dollars or 249 dollars against 199 dollars for the Kindle Fire. Pre-orders are now open across the Atlantic, and will be delivered and available for sale only three days after the model of its direct competitor, is November 18.


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To complete its range of content, Barnes & Noble has entered into various partnerships with Marvel, Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora or Grooveshark, and offer a storage service in the cloud to its users through the Nook Cloud.

Note also that in order not to let Amazon steal market share of reading lights "simple", the American bookseller down the price of its Nook Color (from 249 to 199 dollars) and that of its Nook Touch (from 139 to 99 dollars). We can say that the release of Touch Kindle by Amazon price floor has been beneficial for consumers.

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