Without all the fanfare of either
Seattle-base Amazon or Apple, Barnes and Noble has come out with a
pair of new tablets. There was no big build up over weeks having us
speculate at just what they will be announcing. They didn't make a
big presentation, with media invited, to show off their latest
products. Barnes & Noble just simply released their two new Nooks
with just a simple announcement about the pending release in a couple
of month and a link for pre-ordering the tablets.
“With
the combination of the highest resolution screen, lightest weight and
expansive access to content rendered in a digital quality never
before seen, NOOK HD is the world’s best 7-inch media tablet,”
said William J. Lynch, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes and Noble
in a press
release. “We designed our larger format tablet NOOK HD+ because
we think there’s big demand from customers for a super-light,
extremely high quality 9-inch tablet, at half the price of the iPad.
Both our 7-inch NOOK HD and 9-inch NOOK HD+ deliver an exceptional
customer experience and we enthusiastically encourage customers to go
to nook.com and learn more about them.”
Just like the Kindle the Nook has added
HD to their name and the tablets come in both 7-inch and 9-inch. The
7-inch Nook HD cost $199 just like the Kindle Fire HD of the same
size but the 9-inch starts at $269 a 30 dollar savings over the
Kindle Fire HD. A couple of more differences on price between the
Nook HD and the Kindle Fire HD are that the since the Kindle Fire HD
has ads you have to pay an additional 15 dollar opt-out fee and with
the Nook HD there are no ads and the charge is included with the Nook
HD where the Kindle Fire HD sells theirs separately.
There is also several differences in
features
between the Kindle Fire HD and the Nook HD. The Nook HD has a slight
advantage on display resolution with the 7-inch version at 1440x900
compared to 1280x800 on the same size Kindle HD. The Nook HD wins
again on the weight coming in at a tiny 11.1oz. Compared to 13.9oz on
the Kindle Fire HD. The Nook HD also has a microSD slot where the
Kindle HD still lacks in that area. The Kindle Fire HD does win on
battery life by the slight margin of 11 hours compared to 10.5 for
the Nook HD. On the large version of both the Nook HD and the Kindle
Fire HD the differences in features
are much more closer between the two although the Nook still has a
slight advantage in those same categories.
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