The revamped Nook lineup
Today B&N announced a lower-cost version of its Nook Tablet, the “reader’s tablet” with a 7″ color LCD screen, which I’ve discussed before here. This new version matches Amazon’s Kindle Fire pretty much spec-for-spec and dollar-for-dollar by reducing the price to just $199. It also reduced the memory to match the Kindle Fire, now with 8 GB of internal storage (instead of 16 GB for the $249 Nook Tablet version) and 512 MB of RAM (instead of 1 GB for the $249 version).
A quick re-cap of the specs of both Nook Tablet versions (different specs in italics):
Nook Tablet:
- $249
- 7″ VividView IPS LCD touchscreen display with 1024 x 600 resolution
- 1 GHz dual-core processor
- 1 GB of RAM
- 16 GB of internal storage (plus SD card slot)
- 14.1 oz
- battery life: 11.5 hours reading / 9 hours video
Nook Tablet “Lite”:
- $199
- 7″ VividView IPS LCD touchscreen display with 1024 x 600 resolution
- 1 GHz dual-core processor
- 512 MB of RAM
- 8 GB of internal storage (plus SD card slot)
- 14.1 oz
- battery life: 11.5 hours reading / 9 hours video
Probably a good move on B&N’s part to match the sub-$200 price of the Kindle Fire competition — I think many people would rather save $50 as a trade-off for the slightly reduced specs.
B&N also still offers the older-generation Nook Color (lowering the price by $30, to $169) and the e-Ink-based Nook Simple Touch (for $99).
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