12/20/2023 0 Comments Nook app for kindle fire hd 8![]() The refresh and pulsing isn't viewable to the human eye. To the naked eye, the display looks bright, colorful and evenly lit, though you'll notice its refresh rate matches video cameras recording at 30 and 60fps, so you'll see the display pulsing in our video review. It's a gloss display but B&N has applied a mild (very mild) anti-glare coating that produces less glare than the Kindle Fire, but it's still quite glossy. We're impressed with the Tablet's sharp and natural looking IPS display. Whether you'll eventually be able to take it to a Barnes & Noble store and have an associate re-partition it for you as they did with the Nook Color remains to be seen. It has a gig of RAM and 16 gigs of storage, but 15 gigs is set aside for B&N and partner downloadable content. You can use any micro USB cable for data transfers. Like the Nook Color, the tablet ships with a charger and a special USB cable that you must use for charging. Unlike Amazon, B&N seems to have abandoned 3G eReaders, though we can understand for LCD tablet models where you'll want connectivity for much more than book downloads (B&N and Amazon don't want to foot the bill for free 3G surfing and streaming). The Nook Tablet has WiFi 802.11b/g/n for web browsing, email, book and magazine shopping/downloads and streaming video. ![]() The Nook Tablet has an internal metal frame and a plastic casing, and it weighs ~1.5 ounces less than the Nook Color. The battery is sealed inside and can be replaced by B&N or adventurous owners, though the battery should last 2-3 years before serious degradation sets in. ![]() The 3.5mm stereo headphone jack is up top and the decently loud speaker fires out the back. There's a ubiquitous shortcut on the bottom taskbar that takes you to basic settings for brightness, WiFi, mute and settings. The "N" button below the display takes you to the "command central features, so you can quickly go to your library, settings, shop, search, home, apps, web and settings. Like the Nook Color, the Nook Tablet has hardware volume controls (the Kindle Fire lacks these) so you need not interrupt video playback to change the volume using on-screen controls. That's a good thing since the Nook Tablet has to compete with Amazon's first LCD eReader/tablet, the Kindle Fire. B&N's own very demanding magazines now work much more smoothly too. That translates into smooth streaming video playback and usable Flash playback. The Nook Tablet has a much faster 1GHz dual core TI OMAP CPU vs the Color's 800MHz single core CPU, and the new model has a gig of RAM, double last year's model. But it was a bit underpowered, even by last year's standards, and things like Adobe Flash and video playback weren't stellar. Last year's Nook Color won budget-conscious hackers' hearts because they could root it and turn it into a more full-featured Android tablet. While the software experience is similar (though evolved), there are indeed significant changes in terms of horsepower. We can understand why B&N was tempted to stick with success, but the challenge is convincing customers that this lookalike is seriously better or different. The Nook Color was a captivating looking device with a complex and attractive industrial design that belied its low $249 price tag. The Nook Tablet looks identical to the Nook Color the telltale difference is the Tablet's lighter gray bezel. Like the Kindle, you don't need to hook the Nook up to a PC to get books, magazines and streaming video. Like the first gen Nook Color (Editor's Choice 2010), the Nook Tablet has a 7" IPS display running at 1024 x 600 resolution, a microSD card slot and B&N's large eBookstore and bricks and mortar stores behind it. That's not necessarily a bad thing, because B&N has done an excellent job making a visually appealing and efficient user interface that makes reading books, magazines and web browsing easy to jump into. ![]() I say "of sorts" because it runs a highly customized version of Android OS 2.3 so it doesn't look all that much like Android, and core apps like the Android Market, Gmail and the YouTube app aren't present. In Chief (twitter: Nook Tablet is Barnes & Noble's second generation LCD eBook reader and tablet of sorts. What's not: Last year's look has lost its luster, most internal storage is allocated to Nook store content, hard to sideload apps. What's hot: Responsive and friendly UI, good PDF handling, strong video playback skills. ![]()
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