Michael Knutson
11-08-2011, 07:00 AM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/03/bandn-launching-nook-tablet-for-249-on-november-16th-and-weve-g/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/03/...6th-and-weve-g/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"Sitting down? Good. Come November 16th, Amazon's Kindle Fire will have company. We've wrapped our paws around a stash of documents confirming the impending launch of the first bona fide tablet in the Nook line, and lo and behold, the Nook Tablet will end up being a dead-ringer for the Nook Color that already exists."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/lpt/auto/1320731188.usr17748.jpg" style="border: 0;" /></p><p>Interesting news, and pretty inevitable that B&N would take the training wheels off their Color Nook e-reader, with some bumps and boosts in capacity and performance, and voila, the Nook Tablet. Some advantages over its expected competitor, the Kindle Fire: double the RAM; double the memory, 16GB vs. 8GB; and lighter. But, $50 more right now. Are we seeing the birth of a new class of Android tablet, with a highly customized (and mostly hidden) UI? </p>