The Barnes & Noble NOOK Color may not have a dual core processor or a microphone, but that’s about all that’s separating this 7 inch Android tablet aimed at readers from the newer NOOK Tablet. Barnes & Noble normally sells the NOOK Color for $169, but the retailer has just dropped the price to $149, making this one of the…
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Barnes & Noble has announced it’s creating a new subsidiary which will house the company’s digital and college businesses. That means that the NOOK eReaders and tablets and digital book divisions won’t be under the same roof as B&N’s nearly 700 book stores in the US — but NOOK eReaders will still be tied to the company’s retail stores. In…
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It’s not uncommon to find refurbished NOOK Color tablets for $149 or less… but today Barnes & Noble is going way further. You can now pick up a refurbished NOOK Color for $129 from the B&N eBay store… or add a NOOK Simple Touch eReader for just $20 more. The NOOK Color has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel…
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It was a bug, and Barnes & Noble fixed it. That’s how representatives from the company described the fact that when the NOOK Tablet shipped in November, users discovered they could download some Android apps from the internet (instead of from the B&N Shop) and install them on the tablet — until Barnes & Noble rolled out a software update…
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Barnes & Noble is now offering discounted NOOK Simple Touch, NOOK Color, and NOOK Tablets to customers that sign up for subscriptions to the New York Times or People Magazine. Here’s how it works: Get a NOOK Simple Touch eReader for free with a 1-year NOOK subscription to the New York Times (at $19.99 per month). Get a NOOK Color…
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ReaderDock plans to introduce two new tablet docking stations this month, one for the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color and another for the Amazon Kindle Fire. The N-Station and FireStation are both scheduled to ship in mid-February, but pre-orders for each will open in late January. The docking stations include built-in speakers so you can listen to…
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If the number of people visiting my site after searching for “Kindle Fire root” is anything to go by, it looks like a lot of people found Amazon’s $199 tablet under the Christmas tree this year. But it’s not the only cheap 7 inch Android tablet around. Not by a long shot. Here’s a roundup of some other great deals…
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The Amazon Kindle Fire isn’t the only $200 tablet getting a software update. Barnes & Noble has just rolled out a software update for its year-old NOOK Color tablet. NOOK Color v1.4.1 includes a number of updates including: Support for streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix (for $7.99 per month) Comics and graphic novels PagePerfect NOOK Books which are…
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The Amazon Kindle Fire isn’t the only $200 tablet that’s already running an early version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. A team of developers has started porting ICS to run on the Barnes & Noble NOOK Color. Barnes & Noble released the NOOK Color last year, and recently dropped the price to $199 to make way for the $249…
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There are about a thousand apps available for the NOOK Tablet in the official Barnes & Noble Shop. But it’s easy to add thousands of additional apps by downloading them off the internet or installing a third party app store on the tablet. Update: Sideloading Android apps on a NOOK Tablet requires a device running OS version 1.4.0 or earlier. …
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Black Friday may have come and gone, but many of the price cuts we saw on items last week are still available today… and retailers are running a number of new promotions for Cyber Monday. While there are some great deals on hardware that you can order online, some of the best deals are software, including digital books, movies, and…
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The NOOK Tablet is the second Android tablet from Barnes & Noble, but it’s the first one that the company calls a tablet. That’s because while the first model was positioned as an eBook reader that could also run some apps, Barnes & Noble improved the processor, increased the RAM and storage space, and expanded the app store for its second…
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