“Barnes & Noble Inc took a shot at archrival Amazon.com on Wednesday, unveiling its own lighter and thinner hi-definition tablets that can accommodate multiple users in a bid to win a bigger share of the exploding tablet market,” Phil Wahba reports for Reuters.
“The largest U.S. bookstore chain introduced the new devices with price tags ranging from $199 for a 7-inch Nook HD tablet with 8 gigabytes of memory, to $299 for a 9-inch Nook HD+ tablet, similar in size to Apple Inc’s market-leading iPad, with 32 GB of memory,” Wahba reports. ” Barnes & Noble added innovative features that would allow each a family to share a Nook tablet, with each user able to create a home page and customize preferences, the first table to do so. There are also parental controls that can prevent kids from reading “Fifty Shades of Grey” or go shopping on the digital store.”
Wahba reports, “The 7-inch tablet weighs 11.1 ounces. Its larger sibling is 18.2 ounces, making it lighter than the iPad and making them both more appropriate for reading, he added. The iPad weighs about 23 ounces.”
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MacDailyNews Note: Barnes & Noble Nook HD+ specs:
• 9.46 x 6.41 x 0.45 (240.3 x 162.8 x 11.4 mm)
• 18.17 oz (515 g)
• 9-inch diagonal, 1920 x 1280 pixels, 256 ppi IPS LCD
• Capacitive, Multi-touch
• 1024 MB RAM
• Built-in storage: 16 GB, Maximum User Storage: 13 GB
• microSD, microSDHC up to 32 GB
• Accelerometer
• 802.11 b, g, n
• USB 2.0
• microUSB
• HDMI
Still runs android? Gtfo
More tablets = better for Apple
More Android fragmentation = better for Apple
More Google being forked out of its own ecosystem = more Schadenfreude for me.
Yet Gurgle goes to almost $800 while the best company in the world goes from $700 to $660.
Apple has more shares out there. Get a clue
Now where the hell is my iPad mini?
+1
I’m buying two!
• Accelerometer
• 802.11 b, g, n
• USB 2.0
• microUSB
• HDMI
What! No Centronics port?
B-But, how will we ever get our legacy PeeCee hardware & dongles connected to it.
-TOTAL FAIL-
/i/s
I bet it is fine if all you want to do is to read..
But if you are going to pay 199 for a book, could it be just better to get the actual book for 12?
another ipad killer that will kill itself more then anything