New Nook tablet to compete with Kindle Fire and iPad
Just in time for holiday shopping, Barnes & Noble has intruduced its Nook tablet, jumping into the high-level tablet competition with Amazon's Kindle Fire and Apple's iPad (which was always touted as more than an e-reader).
The Fire, which will be released Nov. 15, sells for $199. That's lower than the Nook tablet's $249 price, and the iPad 2's entry-level $499.
CNET broke down some of the differences between the Nook tablet, which comes out Nov. 18, and Kindle Fire. It gave the nod to the Nook for more memory and storage, as well as bricks-and-mortar stores for customer support. The Kindle Fire, meanwhile, has a lower price and Amazon's broad content offerings to choose from.
We'll revisit the topic as holiday shopping starts in earnest, because both of the new tablets are sure to be big sellers -- and a big problem for consumers struggling to choose.
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One of the best features of our little website is the ability to quickly mix and match products to your heart's content. Here's a sample showing the newly announced Nook Tablet, the already available Nook Color, and Amazon's upcoming Kindle Fire, compared against one another and set against the very popular iPad 2 thrown in for good measure.
Both the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire are Android tablets with 7-inch IPS LCDs pushing 1,024 x 600 pixel resolutions and 1GHz dual-core processors. The Nook Tablet is just a tad chunkier (yet weighs less) but the big difference is the price: The Nook Tablet is $50 more than the Kindle Fire.
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