Barnes & Noble’s newest $199 tablet officially hits the streets November 8th, but customers who pre-ordered the NOOK HD could receive their tablets as early as this week. The NOOK HD has a 7 inch screen and a starting price of $199. That alone wouldn’t be enough to set it apart from the Amazon Kindle […]
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B&N NOOK HD visits the FCC, shipping November 8th
The Barnes & Noble NOOK HD is a tablet with a 7 inch, 1440 x 900 pixel display, a customized version of the Android 4.0 operating system, and a 1.3 GHz TI OMAP 4470 CPU. B&N is taking pre-orders for $199 and up, and expects to deliver the tablet starting November 8th. That’s just a […]
CyanogenMod 10 Alpha brings Android 4.1 to the NOOK Color
Almost exactly two years after Barnes & Noble first released the NOOK Color, a team of independent developers have released an unofficial build of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for the 7 inch tablet. Update: This is now an official build. You can download the latest builds directly from the CyanogenMod download page. The NOOK Color […]
B&N subsidiary NOOK Media LLC takes over bookseller’s digital, college businesses
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have completed their plans to create a new B&N subsidiary called NOOK Media LLC (previously called NewCo). The new division will be responsible for the Barnes & Noble NOOK eBook devices, digital media sales, and the NOOK College business. Microsoft invested $300 million in the deal, and we should see […]
B&N to phase out NOOK Color, keep selling the NOOK Tablet
Barnes & Noble may be launching new tablets in November. But the company isn’t ready to discontinue last year’s model yet. You’ll be able to pick up the NOOK Tablet even after the NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ hit the streets in a little over a month. The company is finally getting ready to retire […]
NOOK tablets, eReaders hit the UK for £79 and up
Barnes & Noble isn’t just launching its new NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ tablets in the US this fall. Both of the company’s new tablets will be available in the UK in late November. The company is already selling its NOOK Simple Touch and NOOK Simple Touch GlowLight eReaders with E Ink displays in the […]
Hands-on with B&N’s Nook HD and Nook HD+
Barnes & Noble is fighting back against the encroachment on the low-cost tablet market they carved out with the Nook Color and Nook Tablet that has seen strong challenges from the likes of the Kindle Fire HD and Google’s Nexus 7. This holiday season they’re introducing the next generation of reader’s tablet: the 7-inch Nook […]
B&N NOOK eReaders, eBook store heading to the UK in October
US bookseller Barnes & Noble is bringing its NOOK digital book readers and online bookstore to the UK. Starting in October, UK residents will be able to pick up a NOOK Simple Touch or NOOK Simple Touch with GlowLight online or at partnering retailers. The online NOOK store will also offer more than 2.5 million […]
B&N drops NOOK Color, NOOK Tablet prices ($149 to $199)
Barnes & Noble is knocking $20 to $50 off the prices of its NOOK tablets running Google Android software. You can now pick up a NOOK Color for $149, an 8GB NOOK Tablet for $179, or a 16GB model for $199. The price cuts come the better part of a year after B&N introduced the […]
B&N releases Nook Tablet 1.4.3 software, breaks root (temporarily)
Barnes & Noble recently added over 100 comic book issues from DC comics to the NOOK Store, allowing NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet users to purchase and read Batman, Superman, and other comics on their tablets. The company also released a minor software update adding zoom view in comics and graphics novels, 2-page mode in […]
B&N adding NFC chips to future NOOK eReaders
NFC chips haven’t really taken off in the US yet. Overseas people use the Near Field Communication technology to use their smartphones as credit or debit cards. But in the US, they aren’t common enough to use very often even if you have a phone with an NFC chip and Google Wallet installed. But Barnes […]
8GB NOOK Tablet now just $199, NOOK Color drops to $169
As expected, Barnes & Noble has introduced a new version of the NOOK Tablet with just 8GB of storage and 512MB of RAM. It’s available from B&N for $199. You can still pay $249 to get a model with twice the RAM and storage if you prefer. The bookseller is also dropping the price of […]