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NEW YORK – Barnes & Noble only a short time ago announced its latest Android-powered tablet: the Nook Tablet, designed to command the upcoming holiday season, and to take on Amazon, its closest competitor. 
  
 The Nook Tablet has an improved dual-core 1Ghz processor with 1GB RAM, and will retail at $249. Weighing under a pound, the company claims the tablet will have the lowest reflection and glare of any tablet on the market. 
  
 The device will be the same shape as the Nook Color, with a 7-inch screen, and will last on battery for 11.5 hours of reading. 
  
 It also boasts 9 hours of video playback, supports 1080p video, and will offer Netflix, Pandora and Hulu Plus as preloaded applications, according to William Lynch, the company’s chief executive officer. 
  
  
  
 (Source: CNET, CBS Interactive) 
  
 The tablet, though has “safe and dependable” Nook Cloud storage offered by the company, will offer 16GB internal memory, with an expandable storage slot for 32GB more. Compared directly to Amazon’s competitor, the Kindle Fire “only has 8GB and is not upgradable”, whereas the Nook Tablet has a potential capacity of 45GB storage. 
  
 But can it appeal to those hell-bent on buying a $199 priced Kindle Fire? 
  
 Though only $50 more, the Kindle brand alone will hold more weight, even though Barnes & Noble may have the larger selection of books. Plus, specification wise, the Nook Tablet has greater hardware, making the device somewhat more enticing for those with a higher budget. 
  
 In other, but related news, the Nook Color will go on sale at $199, while the Nook SimpleTouch will feature a new e-ink display in the update, and will be 25 percent faster than other e-ink products on the market. Claiming that it will last twice as long on battery, there will also be “no annoying ads”. 
  
 It will go on sale at $99, rivalling the Kindle Touch directly in price and feature specification. 
  
 The devices are available for pre-order today, and will be in stores beginning next week. 
  
 Related: ||||| In late September, Amazon unveiled a $199 tablet called the Kindle Fire. Obviously this left a massive divide in the market between the much pricier iPad 2 and the new Kindle Fire, which Barnes & Noble has this morning responded to. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, I’m pleased to introduce you to the Nook Tablet. 
  
 B&N CEO Willian Lynch made sure to note the Nook tablet’s superior (fully laminated) display isn’t the only feature that is “better” than the Amazon Kindle Fire. He also touted the fact that the Nook tablet offers almost twice the RAM, along with in-store support that just isn’t possible with Amazon. 
  
 The 7-inch Nook Tablet looks much like a thinner (less than a pound) and lighter Color, but has innards that couldn’t be more different. Under the hood you’ll find a dual-core 1GHz processor courtesy of Texas Instruments, along with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage (including a microSD slot supporting up to a 32GB card). When Nook cloud isn’t available, all that storage will certainly come in handy. But that’s not to say that Nook cloud won’t be involved — the new Nook tablet has the same Nook cloud support you’ve grown accustomed to. 
  
 But the real differentiator between this and the Kindle Fire will be the amount of content available, which B&N contends should be no trouble. The book seller touts 2.5 million books, thousands of apps, and deals with Hulu Plus and Netflix for our video lovers. Oh, and speaking of video, the tablet also supports video playback in full 1080p HD, although the Netflix app will only play video in 720p. 
  
 All those books and videos galore mean strong battery life is a must — luckily B&N promises at least 11 hours. Past that, there are plenty of other fun features to keep things interesting, including “Read & Record,” which lets parents record children’s stories so that kids can have their parents voice reading them to sleep at times when parent and child can’t necessarily be together. Angry Birds is also in tow. 
  
 The Nook tablet will begin to arrive in stores at the beginning of next week for $249. Meanwhile the rest of the Nook line is getting some price drops: the Nook color has been dropped down to $199, and the more basic Nook Simple Touch has gone from $139 to $99. 
  
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 Barnes & Noble Inc. jumped into the tablet computer market Monday, unveiling a Nook Tablet priced at $249, $50 more than Amazon.com Inc.'s new Kindle Fire but half the price of Apple Inc.'s cheapest iPad. 
  
 The launch represents a significant digital bet for the nation's largest bookstore chain, which is battling to increase its share of the thriving e-books market while overseeing more than 1,300 book stores. Barnes & Noble has had some success with its Nook line of e-readers, which have helped it gain what it estimates is a 27% stake in the e-book market. But by introducing a ... |||||
The Nook Tablet is here, and while it won’t cost you nearly as much as an iPad, at $249 it still comes in a bit more expensive than Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Barnes & Noble unveiled the tablet in New York City today, just in time for the holiday shopping season, the Wall Street Journal notes. That extra 50 bucks will snag you better memory capacity, a superior display, a larger selection of content, and in-store service, TechCrunch adds. The internal 16GB storage is twice Amazon’s, and the Nook also offers the option for an additional 32GB. The 7-inch Android-powered tablet also features a 1Ghz processor with 1GB RAM and comes with free cloud service, access to Nook newsstand and comics, and a battery that will last 11.5 hours for reading and nine hours for video playback. The Nook Tablet will be in stores next week, ZDNet reports. Barnes & Noble also cut the price of its non-tablet Nooks: A Nook Color will now run you $199, or you can pick up a Nook SimpleTouch for $99.