


There are any number of shiny features that amazon introduced in the past year that I love. If anything I am in love with what Amazon have been doing with the kindle platform. It’s not a Nook Color 2, it’s a Nook Color 1.5.Īs you can probably tell, I am not a Nook partisan.


It’s a good incremental improvement on the original NC and it is also quite pretty, but it didn’t wow me. I sat down to write this after having been out of the event for about half an hour now, and I have got a pretty good idea what I think of the Nook Tablet. I also watched it be demoed for a good half hour. I was at the event (livebog here), and I got more than a few minutes time to play with the new Nook Tablet. You can also get them with Amazon lock-screen ads, which will lower your price by $15.Earlier today B&N finally admitted to the existence of the new Nook tablet (the one that leaked last week). (We recommend this 128-GB MicroSD card.)Ĭheap: Did we mention the price? They all cost $200 or less, which is a price that would have legitimately shocked you a few years ago. The Kids Editions are also some of the best-quality tablets for kids, encased in a rugged bumper, and all have MicroSD slots so you can add extra storage. You can do most of the same things from an Android tablet or iPad, but the Fire OS interface is crafted specifically to deliver Amazon goods, with swipeable pages for each type of media Amazon sells.īuilt ‘Good Enough’: Physically, Amazon’s Fire tablets are made of cheap-ish plastic, but they’re designed with enough care that the build quality won’t bother you too much. A Faucet for Amazon Content: If you subscribe to Amazon’s Prime service, you can consume all the included movies, music, TV, and books while also shopping for all the items you can get with its free two-day shipping or browsing your free Amazon photo storage.
