Here’s a tempting offer: Barnes & Noble is offering a free Nook Simple Touch or a $99 Nook Color (the one that’s easily hacked into a tablet) if you subscribe to the New York Times through them. If you’re not much into hard news, they’re also offering the Nook Tablet for $199 (a $50 savings) […]
What exactly defines a tablet? Is it the large touchscreen? Is it the operating system? Is it the ability to run apps? What separates a tablet from a PC, curated e-readers from tablets, and junk from quality hardware? This question has been recently relevant in the introduction of the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire to […]
A few months after killing off the Dell Streak 5, Dell has now ended their 7″ model’s suffering as well. This is something that surprised no one, what with the Streak recently being priced at under $100 at local Staples and other retail outlets. What’s particularly telling, tough, is this comment from CEO Michael Dell: […]
In a post-Fire world, even the smallest differences can push the average consumer into a decision between Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes and Noble’s NOOK Tablet. One of the main advantages the NOOK Tablet had over the Kindle Fire had been twice the storage space (16 GB vs. 8GB) as well as twice the RAM […]
Amazon’s highly anticipated Kindle Fire begins shipping this week, and that means discussion in the tech world can turn to only one thing: comic books. Fine, maybe not just one thing, but Amazon has already dramatically changed the landscape of the comic book industry without even shipping its outrageously low-priced tablet. The Fire was announced […]
Thanks to hackers, the Nook Color has long been an unofficial tablet. Now Engadget has discovered that Barnes & Noble plans on making it official by releasing the Nook Tablet on November 16. You can snag something that looks a lot like a Nook Color, but is lighter, has twice the memory, and won’t need […]
