Looks like Amazon’s tablet effort lit a fire under Barnes & Noble.
Amazon’s Fire tablet isn’t even on sale but the company has had pre-orders coming out of its ears since it announced the $199 device. Now, it seems Barnes & Noble wants in on some of the action. According to leaked marketing documents, B&N has plans for a Nook tablet and will be announcing it in the coming days.
I’ve had the new Nook Color ereader from Barnes & Noble 
for a couple of weeks now and I’ve come to like it. B&N has done themselves proud this time around. The Nook Color is attractive, seems solidly built and feels good in my hands. B&N’s new color ereader isn’t perfect, but most everything works well out of the box this time.
One of the first things to do is connect to Barnes & Noble. I had to try several times to successfully connect to my Wi-Fi network, but once connected initially it has seemed to stay faithfully connected with only one exception. On that occasion I just had to tap a button to reconnect after waking the ereader.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is considered by many to be the only Android-based tablet worth considering, but is it really? That question is now up in the air since Barnes and Noble’s $250 NookColor, an Android-based e-reader has recently been rooted. While before the deed it was just an e-reader – it has now taken on a new life of its own. Check out the picture proof below:
The Barnes & Noble Nook Color is the first second-generation Android-based ereader. Its predecessor was an e-ink screen designed for longer battery life and less strain on the eyes during long-term reading sessions, but the Nook Color is a departure.
The 16-million-color screen with VividView provides a more traditional reading experience with twists. It offers color photographs and charts that would lose meaning on an e-ink display, and a variety of controls for note-taking, highlighting, or bookmarking. You sacrifice the battery life of e-ink, but gain color-based features that are otherwise lost.
With just a few more days left until “Black Friday 2010,” it’s a good time to have a really good think about what you are expecting to buy with your money, which store(s) you are considering visiting and finding out their opening times. Getting there early will give you more chance of getting those doorbuster deals. Today we are giving you some news on two e-readers which might take your fancy!
Barnes & Noble just unveiled its all-new Nook Color, an Android tablet fronted by a 7-inch color touchscreen… so long, e-ink! (Not really, the $149 original Nook is sticking around for now, owns 20 percent of the e-reader market, and is about to get a major software update). B&N is billing it as a hybrid of e-reader and tablet device, and has beefed up its software with a full-on tablet-style UI, along with Facebook and Twitter integration. There’s built-in WiFi (802.11b/g/n) and 8GB of storage, but no 3G at this point. Thankfully, the price stays aggressive as a result: $249. You might think that means the screen is going to be weak, but B&N has managed to put an impressive-sounding “VividView,” 16 million color, 1024 x 600 IPS display in this thing. Interestingly, there’s a “full lamination screen film” on top of the LCD to reduce glare, apparently from the backlight, not just from external light sources.
William Lynch, Presisent of of Barnes & Noble.com, is seen as a silhouette during the launch of Nook, the Wireless eBook Reader, at a news conference in New York October 20, 2009.
Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton
NEW YORK | Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:02pm EDT
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Barnes & Noble Inc will ship its Nook electronic readers to 2,500 Wal-Mart stores this month to reach more shoppers ahead of the holiday season.
The devices will hit Wal-Mart shelves as soon as October 24, and will also be available on the discount chain’s website, the world’s largest bookstore chain said in a statement on Thursday.
Many bookstores have suffered as readers buy more of their books online, or in electronic form.
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