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Kindle Fire to have some Nook Competition

November 5th, 2011 by Joseph Ruthaford

On November 16th B&N is launching their own tablet to go head to head with the Amazon Kindle Fire. It is going to sell for $249 and here are the details on this Nook. What we’re looking at is a 7-inch VividView IPS color touchpanel with a 1024 x 600 screen resolution (that’s 169 pixels per inch), a 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP4 processor, 1GB of RAM, dimensions of 8.1- x 5- x 0.48-inches, 16GB of inbuilt storage, a microSD expansion slot, roughly eight hours of battery life with WiFi switched off (that sinks to four hours with videos playing back), 802.11b/g/n WiFi and support for a smorgasbord of file formats including ePUB, PDF, XLS, DOC, PPT, TXT, DOCM, Flash, JPG, MP3, MP4 and AAC.

B&N says that it offers “everything the Nook Color [does] + the best in HD entertainment.” So, why does B&N think you’ll pony up the extra? For one, the Nook Tablet has twice the RAM and twice the storage compared to its closest rival, while also being lighter and having access to over two million books, magazines and newspapers. So, what say you? You’ll be able to pre-order your own on November 7th, and for those still dubious, in-store demonstrations will begin on the 15th.

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