Barnes & Noble Introduces $249 NOOK Tablet

Barnes & Noble introduced the NOOK Tablet, the company's fastest and lightest tablet with the best in HD entertainment. NOOK Tablet offers access to popular movies, TV shows, music and more through the top entertainment services, including Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora and others, plus a collection of high-quality apps, fast Web browsing and e-mail. NOOK Tablet features Barnes & Noble's award-winning color reading experience, with access to the world's largest digital bookstore via Wi-Fi.

Now available for pre-order at www.nook.com and at Barnes & Noble stores for just $249, NOOK Tablet will be in stores and in homes on or about November 17th.

NOOK TABLET Specifications:-

World's Most Advanced VividView Touchscreen

• 7-inch VividView Color Touchscreen
• 16 million+ colors, IPS display
• High resolution display—1024 X 600, 169 pixels per inch (PPI)
• Fully laminated with no air gaps for remarkable clarity and reduced reflection & glare-read indoors or outside

Adjustable Fonts

• 8 text sizes, 6 font styles, change background colors, line and margin spacing
• Look-up words in the built-in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition

Web and Email

• Enhanced Web browsing with video via Adobe Flash Player
• Check & send email all from one inbox (i.e., POP and IMAP webmail, including Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and others)
• Parental controls to easily disable the Web browser

Built-in Wi-Fi

• Wireless connectivity via Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n)
• FREE Wi-Fi in all Barnes & Noble stores

Microphone

• Record narration for kids' Read and Record books

Supported File Types

• Load EPUB (including Adobe DRM or DRM free) or PDF file types from your computer or microSD card
• Other documents: XLS, DOC, PPT, TXT, DOCM, XLSM, PPTM, PPSX, PPSM, DOCX, XLX, PPTX
• Watch videos in MP4, or Adobe Flash Player format, 3GP, 3G2 MKV, WEBM (Video Codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, H.263, VP8)
• Load photos and create personal wallpaper: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP
• Play audio on built-in mono speaker: MP3, MP4, AAC, AMR, WAV, OGG (Audio Codecs MP3, AAC, AMR, LPCM, OGG Vorbis) 

Built for Speed

• 1GHz TI OMAP4 (dual-core) processor with 1GB RAM

Extra-Long Battery Life

• Up to 11.5 hours of reading or 9 hours of video without recharging with wireless off
• Installed rechargeable battery
• Charge from a wall outlet using the in-box Power Adapter and USB Cable (charging time: approximately 3 hours from wall outlet)

Memory

• 16 GB (up to 10,000 books) built-in memory
• Add up to 32GB with microSD memory card

Pre-Loaded NOOK Apps

• Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora internet radio, Chess, Crossword, Sudoku, Media Gallery, NOOK Friends, Email

 

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Barnes & Noble makes NOOK Color and NOOK Simple Touch Official

With NOOK Tablet, Barnes & Noble also announced the enhancements and incredibly new low prices for NOOK Color, the first-ever Reader's Tablet, and NOOK Simple Touch, the first breakthrough touch E Ink device. The critically acclaimed NOOK Color will be even better next month, with more than 100 feature enhancements, access to top video and music services, popular apps, comics and more – and an even better value at today's new incredibly low price of $199. The new and improved NOOK Simple Touch features the world's fastest page turns and longest battery life, and an amazing new price of $99 – with no annoying ads.

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Black Friday deal-Get Limited Edition of Simple NOOK Touch for $79

Barnes & Noble, announced the best Black Friday deals on the season's hottest reading and entertainment products. On Friday, November 25 – for one day only – you will be able purchase a limited edition version of NOOK Simple Touch, for the amazing low price of only $79. Sold only at Barnes & Noble bookstores on Black Friday while supplies last, this exclusive model features a stylish white border.

You can shop early to take advantage of this year's exciting Barnes & Noble Black Friday specials available in stores and online at Barnes & Noble.com, including:

• NOOK Accessories: Enjoy discounts of up to 44 percent online and in stores on NOOK must-haves, including a free Clear Screen Film Kit with purchase of a NOOK Color or NOOK Tablet Power Kit for $24.95, and a free NOOK Simple Touch Power Adapter with purchase of a Lyra Light for $14.95.
• Toys & Games: An incredible 50 percent off of any one item in stores from the world's best selection of Educational Toys and Games, and select items online. Customers can choose from LEGO, LeapFrog, Melissa & Doug, and many more. This offer is exclusively available on Friday, November 25.
• Top-selling Books: 50 percent off select popular titles online and in stores, including George R. R. Martin's Game of Thrones Deluxe Edition, John Grisham's The Litigators, Lee Child's The Affair, David Baldacci's Zero Day, Todd Burpo's Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition, Annie Leibovitz's Pilgrimage, Peter A. David's The Spiderman Vault, and The Art Museum Book, among others.
• Kids & Teens Books: 50 percent of select titles online and in stores, including the bestselling series Maze Runner, by James Dashner, and The Mortal Instruments, by Cassandra Clare, as well as popular picture books such as Dr. Seuss' The Bippolo Seed, Eric Carle's The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse, and Maurice Sendak's Bumble-Ardy. Also available is Tom Angleberger's popular Origami Yoda Book series for young readers.
• DVD and Blu-ray: 40-50 percent off select DVD and Blu-ray bestsellers and new releases in stores.

Additional offers, available to customers online and in stores, include:

A coupon for 30 percent off one item to shop online from Wednesday, November 23, to Sunday, November 27, or redeemable in stores from Friday, November 25, to Sunday, November 27.

A free $10 Barnes & Noble gift card with every $100 gift card purchase.

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Barnes & Noble Introduces 8GB NOOK Tablet for $199 and Offering Color for $169

Barnes & Noble announced 8GB NOOK Tablet for $199 which includes all the features of NOOK Tablet – 16GB but with 8GB of on-board memory, 512MB of RAM. In addition to that company also slashed NOOK Color price to $169. Isn’t that great? The 8GB NOOK Tablet is available today both online and Barnes & Noble stores and will join other retailers in coming weeks

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Barnes & Noble introduces NOOK for Web

Barnes & Noble, today introduced NOOK for Web, an innovative and free new browser experience that offers readers the ability to explore the hottest digital titles and bestselling books right from their computer – is now available at www.nook.com/NOOKforWeb with no download required. Simply browse for books in the NOOK Book Store and look for the "Read Instantly" icon to begin reading any book. Support for Internet-enabled tablets, smartphones and other mobile devices coming this fall.

Beginning today, Barnes & Noble is offering six bestselling NOOK Books for FREE including Map of Bones by James Rollins, Sex and the City by Candace Bushnell, The Vow by Kim Carpenter, The Boxcar Children Summer Special by Gertrude Chandler Warner, Brave by Tennant Redbank and Perfect Island Getaways by Patricia Schultz, instantly read the sample, and then download the entire book for free on any browser now through July 26.

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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich porting to Nook Color

Developers of XDA forum managed to port Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich on Nook Color tablet. They have managed bluetooth, WiFi , backlight, accelerometer, improved stability, Google apps,  real data usage info,  battery levels/charging, physical menu button, touchscreen and 3d games to work.

Despite all these achievements, it’s still a very early version of port as video and sound not working. If you’re interested, you can build ICS for Nook Color as source code is available.

Source:- XDA Forum

 

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Netflix Unveils new interface for Android Tablets

Coinciding with the first shipments of the Amazon Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet, Netflix, today unveiled a new interface for Android-powered tablets that makes browsing and instantly watching unlimited TV shows and movies streaming from Netflix better than ever.

The redesigned Netflix experience is much more immersive and provides more focus on the growing Netflix catalog by displaying twice as many titles than the previous interface. In addition, through optimization for touch-enabled tablets, Netflix members can swipe through multiple rows of titles with larger artwork. As a result, it is now much easier to discover and instantly watch movies and TV shows on Android tablets.

Netflix members can install the latest version of the Netflix app, available as a free download in the Android Market and respective application download stores for other Android-powered tablets such as the Kindle Fire and NOOK Tablet. The new tablet experience should be available for members with iPads in a few weeks.

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