Barnes & Noble Finally Launches The Tablet Nook

Barnes  & Noble Finally Launches the Tablet Nook - “When Nook Tablet We are offering the best multimedia device ever created in a portable form factor,” said Barns & Noble CEO William Lynch, during the inauguration in the company of Union Square New York bookstore.

Lynch touted tablet screen resolution and battery life are the key selling points. The tablet is an e-reader, and streaming HD movies and music. The company is partnering with Zulu and Netflix offer video content. Users can read magazines, interactive children’s books, comics, and use applications, Barnes & Noble Nook Store. The display has its own design called “VividView,” said Lynch, who has a brighter screen and a wider viewing angle than other tablets.

As for battery life, said Lynch, a user would be able to watch movies, either on disk or continuously for 8 hours. That would mean five full-length HD moves on a flight between New York and Rome, for example. To read, the battery will last as long as 11 hours. The tablet will be available “at the end of next week” in stores Barnes & Noble, other retailers and mail. Users will be able to store data on Cloud Nook and Barnes & Noble offer free Wi- Fi in all its stores by AT & T.

Barnes  & Noble Finally Launches the Tablet Nook
Lynch has had time to compare the presentation of a new tablet-fire, which has values. “The fire is incomplete and media tablets,” he said. 512 The Fire of RAM is not enough room to play during the reading of a revised application, or another program running, he said. The 8G bytes of memory is not enough to keep the media in situations where the user is not connected to the Internet. “You’re always going to be in relation with the cloud,” he said.

Barnes & Noble Nook tablet will cost U.S. $ 249 The company will lower the price of the previous version of Nook, Nook e-reader/tablet color $ 199

The Nook is a 7 inch tablet that weighs 14.1 ounces. It has a touch screen 1024 x 600. It comes with 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal storage and a 32GB card expandable SD. Processor-wise, the unit is equipped with a 1 GHz dual-core chip OMAP4.

With their latest releases, both Barnes & Noble and Amazon, Kindle, which fire due Nov. 15 at a price of $ 199, not only compete in the market for e-readers, but the tablets for general use. The market tablets is currently dominated by the Apple iPad. IDC said shipments in September this year shelf to reach 62.5 million units.

Barnes  & Noble Finally Launches the Tablet Nook
Barnes & Noble has introduced the first color e-reader Nook in October of last year. While Barnes & Noble has no plans to expand full Nook as a tablet for general use, modders just rooted in the device and download the custom version of Android to run third party applications.

Identify potential Nook color tablet, Barnes & Noble in April released a software update, which was officially device support for Flash, games like Angry Birds, with built-in form of e-mail, multimedia e-book functionality and new social networking and web tools. In April, the Android 2.2 update, codenamed Froyo, including improvements in performance.

Products increasingly important corner for the Barnes & Noble e-book sales grow and the company scales back the operations of the retail store. Barnes & Noble in September, said that if sales of retail stores was an important part of business operations, consumer spending has been directed to digital content, which was to define the direction of the company.

In June, said Barnes & Noble was selling three times as many digital books through its website in relation to physical books. In September, the company had 1,300 stores, which was a “major competitive advantage” in the promotion of digital content and device sales.

Barnes & Noble Nook products are also Nook Simple Touch Reader, which is priced starting at $ 139, and the original Nook, which was $ 89. Barnes & Noble offers 2000000 e-book can be downloaded from the website of the company.

Barnes  & Noble Finally Launches the Tablet Nook
Barnes & Noble best e-reader Amazon competitor that offers Kindle e-readers. E-reader shipments totaled 5.4 million units in the second quarter of this year, an increase of 167 percent over the same quarter last year. Amazon was the best electronic reader supplier with a market share of 51.7 percent, while Barnes & Noble had a share of 21.2 percent in the second quarter. IDC predicts worldwide e-reader shipments total 27 million units this year.