Barnes & Noble introduces $199, 8GB Nook tablet

admin February 22, 2012 1

The two most talked about tablets last year in terms of price, was Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet. (Hewlett-Packard’s Touch Pad is not included in this article as the $99 price was exclusive to the fire sale). The Kindle Fire is priced at $199 while the Nook Tablet is priced at $249. Though some argue that the Nook Tablet is far better than the Kindle Fire, that didn’t stop people from buying the cheaper tablet, quickly becoming America’s number two tablet in just six weeks.

And the main reason why the Amazon tablet is performing better in the market is because it is $50 cheaper. B&N finally understands that $50 is still $50, so they slashed the price of the Nook Tablet for two days. From February 16 until midnight of February 17, the price of the Nook Tablet was at $199 on eBay after entering coupon code CNOOKDEAL at checkout, and was included in eBay’s Fast N’ Free shipping, so if you were one of the few lucky ones to get the deal, you’d get the Nook Tablet before this week ends.

And here’s another surprise for those who want to purchase the Nook Tablet. According to a report from The Verge, on Wednesday February 22, B&N will be launching an 8GB Nook Tablet which will match the Kindle Fire’s 8GB offering. And because of the reduced storage, you can bet that the price will also be reduced to $199.

Specs

Super-Light and Portable

1/3 lighter than the leading tablet with an easy-to-hold soft touch design

Height: 8.1 inches
Width: 5.0 inches
Depth: 0.48 inches
Weight: 14.1 ounces¹

World’s Most Advanced VividView™ Touchscreen

Remarkable clarity and minimal glare

7-inch VividView™ Color Touchscreen
16 million+ colors, IPS² display
High resolution display—1024 X 600, 169 pixels per inch (PPI)
Fully laminated with no air gaps for remarkable clarity and reduced reflection & glare-read indoors or outside

Adjustable Fonts

Customize your reading experience

8 text sizes, 6 font styles, change background colors, line and margin spacing
Look-up words in the built-in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition

Web and Email

Surf your favorite sites and check & send email

Enhanced Web browsing with video via Adobe® Flash® Player³
Check & send email all from one inbox (i.e., POP and IMAP webmail, including Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and others)
Parental controls to easily disable the Web browser

Built-in Wi-Fi®

Connect wirelessly in seconds

Wireless connectivity via Wi-Fi® (802.11b/g/n)
FREE Wi-Fi® in all Barnes & Noble stores

Microphone

Record narration for kids’ Read and Record™ books

Supported File Types⁴

Borrow library books, listen to music, watch videos & more

Load EPUB (including Adobe DRM or DRM free) or PDF file types from your computer or microSD card
Other documents: XLS, DOC, PPT, TXT, DOCM, XLSM, PPTM, PPSX, PPSM, DOCX, XLX, PPTX
Watch videos in MP4, or Adobe Flash Player format, 3GP, 3G2 MKV, WEBM (Video Codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, H.263, VP8)
Supports Netflix video up to 720p and sideloaded video up to 1080p; renders at 1024 x 600
Load photos and create personal wallpaper: JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP
Play audio on built-in mono speaker: MP3, MP4, AAC, AMR, WAV, OGG (Audio Codecs MP3, AAC, AMR, LPCM, OGG Vorbis)

Built for Speed

NOOK Tablet– 8GB: 1GHz TI OMAP4 (dual-core) processor with 512MB RAM
NOOK Tablet– 16GB: 1GHz TI OMAP4 (dual-core) processor with 1GB RAM

Extra-Long Battery Life

Up to 11.5 hours of reading or 9 hours of video without recharging⁵
Installed rechargeable battery
Charge from a wall outlet using the in-box Power Adapter and USB Cable (charging time: approximately 3 hours from wall outlet)

Memory

Stores books, songs, videos, photos & more

NOOK Tablet–8GB: 5GB for content; of which 1GB is reserved for NOOK Store content⁶
NOOK Tablet–16GB:13GB for content; of which 12GB is reserved for NOOK Store content⁷
Add up to 32GB with microSD™⁸ memory card