Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet review
Does the Nook Tablet have what it takes to topple the Kindle Fire? Do the product’s benefits justify its $50 premium over Amazon’s device — or the recently discounted and soon to be upgraded Nook Color for that matter? Find out the answers to these questions and so, so many more, after the break.
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Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet review originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nook Tablet gets torn down, mysteries of the carabiner unlocked
After last week’s Kindle Fire teardown, Barnes & Noble’s new slate must have been quaking in its boots. The Nook Tablet just had its moment under the knife, courtesy of screw driver-packing site iFixit. There’s really not a whole heck of a lot of surprising things happening inside the $249 device, according to the site. There’s a battery that’s still emblazoned with a “NOOKCOLOR” under the model number, in spite of the new tablet’s better battery life. And then there’s 16GB of storage made by SanDisk and that 1GHz dual-core processor. Lots of shots of tablet guts in the source link below.
Nook Tablet gets torn down, mysteries of the carabiner unlocked originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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How would you change Sony’s Tablet S?
As far as tablets go, Sony’s Tablet S is about as innovative and unorthodox as it got in 2011. The Honeycomb-based device shipped with Android 3.1, and while there’s no word yet on an Ice Cream Sandwich update, you can bet that Sony’s pushing for one. As is, it’s still in possession of quite the edge given the PlayStation Suite inclusion, which makes it the first tablet capable of playing PlayStation and PSP games via the included emulator. We found plenty of pros and cons during our time with the device, but now that it’s out and about in plenty of nations worldwide, we’re offering you — the early adopter — a chance to speak about your gripes and praises. Would you change up the wedge design? Throw a different display on here? Swap one thing for another? Go on and shout your advice below. But try speaking, first. Shouting is pretty rude.
How would you change Sony’s Tablet S? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Switched On: Between a Nook and a hard place
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.
In the 1988 comedy Coming to America, a blatant McDonald’s rip-off named McDowell’s draws the legal ire of the empire built by Ray Kroc. In explaining his pathetic defense that includes noting that McDowell’s uses golden arcs instead of golden arches, the eatery’s manager notes that while both the Big Mac and his Big Mick both include the 1970s jingle-immortalized ingredients of two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions, the McDowell’s flagship burger bun has, in fact, no sesame seeds.
This state of differentiation isn’t a far cry from what characterized some of the earliest 10-inch Honeycomb devices — a few fractions of an inch of thickness, a higher-quality display, a full-sized USB port, an hour or two of running time and some bundled apps constituted how many of the tablets asserted their competitiveness. Of course, there was the ASUS Transformer Prime with its keyboard add-on and its follow up, the Eee Pad Slider, which finally brought an integrated one. But whether it’s been from a lack of of options for manufacturers or disadvantages of the overall Honeycomb approach, larger Android tablets have made limited inroads versus the similarly sized iPad and are now going after it more aggressively on price.
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Switched On: Between a Nook and a hard place originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang: quad-core, Tegra 3 tablets will drop to $299 in a ‘couple quarters’
It’s inevitable: the “latest and greatest” in tech (whatever that happens to be at the moment) always comes down in price as it makes way for something thinner, faster… better. Still, it’s interesting to imagine that happening when a product is still basking in its glory days. That’s exactly what what we’re going to see with NVIDIA’s new quad-core Tegra 3 chip, according to NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. Over lunch today with a few tech journalists, he said he expects Tegra 3 tablets to plummet to $299 in just “a couple quarters.” That’s pretty incredible when you remember the Transformer Prime hasn’t even gone on sale yet, and when it does it’ll cost $500 — a reasonable price in its own right when you stack it up against the aging iPad 2. So it’s a bit dizzying to imagine 2012 ushering in a crop of high-end Honeycomb (or even ICS) tablets that cost just a little more than the Nook Tablet currently does. We’ll be curious to see how such pricing might pressure the likes of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple, but regardless, something tells us lots of you won’t wait six months to get your hands on a half-price Prime.NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang: quad-core, Tegra 3 tablets will drop to $299 in a ‘couple quarters’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang: quad-core, Tegra 3 tablets will drop to $299 in a ‘couple quarters’
It’s inevitable: the “latest and greatest” in tech (whatever that happens to be at the moment) always comes down in price as it makes way for something thinner, faster… better. Still, it’s interesting to imagine that happening when a product is still basking in its glory days. That’s exactly what what we’re going to see with NVIDIA’s new quad-core Tegra 3 chip, according to NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang. Over lunch today with a few tech journalists, he said he expects Tegra 3 tablets to plummet to $299 in just “a couple quarters.” That’s pretty incredible when you remember the Transformer Prime hasn’t even gone on sale yet, and when it does it’ll cost $500 — a reasonable price in its own right when you stack it up against the aging iPad 2. So it’s a bit dizzying to imagine 2012 ushering in a crop of high-end Honeycomb (or even ICS) tablets that cost just a little more than the Nook Tablet currently does. We’ll be curious to see how such pricing might pressure the likes of Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Apple, but regardless, something tells us lots of you won’t wait six months to get your hands on a half-price Prime.NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang: quad-core, Tegra 3 tablets will drop to $299 in a ‘couple quarters’ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Nov 2011 16:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Archos debuts Arnova 9 G2 Android tablet, offers Gingerbread on a 9.7-inch IPS display
Archos’ new Arnova 9 G2 tablet looks to be the very definition of a mixed bag. It’s part of the company’s budget-minded Arnova line, so it will likely be relatively inexpensive (there’s still no official word on a price), and it packs some specs that range from decent to high-end, including a 1GHz ARM A8 processor and a 9.7-inch IPS display with a 1,024 x 768 resolution (the same as the iPad). But it also runs the smartphone-minded Android 2.3 OS on that decidedly tablet-sized display and, as with other inexpensive Android tablets, you’ll have to make do without official access to the Android Market (Archos offers the Appslib application store instead). Still curious? Details on everything but a price and release date can be found at the source link below.
Update: Matias emailed to let us know that he spotted an official listing for this device on Amazon.de, carrying a price of 250 Euro. If you’re interested, that’s about 340 of our American dollars.
Archos debuts Arnova 9 G2 Android tablet, offers Gingerbread on a 9.7-inch IPS display originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Nov 2011 01:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Kobo Vox unboxing and hands-on (video)
Kobo is something of a perpetual underdog. That may well change, after Rakuten acquisition of the company goes through, but for now, it’s still a small organization battling giants like Amazon, Barnes & Noble and, to a lesser extent, Sony. With that in mind, the timing for the Vox’s release certainly could have been better — the tablet has to go head to head with the Nook Tablet and Kindle Fire, both on sale this week. Well, we just received ours, and with that in mind, we immediately did what any other geek would do — we started playing with it alongside its bigger-named competitors. We’ll be back with a full review soon enough, but for now, join us for an unboxing and some early impressions.
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Kobo Vox unboxing and hands-on (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Next Issue Media strikes deals with more Android tablet makers ahead of full launch
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Next Issue Media strikes deals with more Android tablet makers ahead of full launch originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Nook Tablet limits internal storage for non-B&N purchased content to 1GB
Update: Barnes & Noble confirmed that the above numbers are correct, but added that future multimedia download plans from third-party vendors will utilize the space currently devoted to B&N content only.
Nook Tablet limits internal storage for non-B&N purchased content to 1GB originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.