Nook Tablet Awesomeness

[Joxsjua]

Just updated my black/white plain nook to the "Nook Tablet" couple days ago.
For those of you that don't about nook it's basically Barnes and noble's e-book reader similar to amazon's kindle. I love being able to read a book without fumbling with pages, losing my place and possibly damaging the book itself.

I originally chose nook over kindle because I read a vast amount of complaints about how easily kindles broke. My brother-in-law was here last 4th of July and his kindle broke for it's 5th time while just chilling in his bag. It's a free replacement if kindle/nook break under warranty but I just didn't want to hassle with sending in a kindle as many times as he had to.


This new nook "Tablet" is amazing compared to my old nook and here are some of the reason why I love it: colored screen, able to browse the internet via WiFi, free apps to access your netflix, hulu and pandora accounts already installed, 1 GHz TI OMAP4 dual core proccessor, 516MB RAM if you get the 8GB Tablet unless you go with the 16GB with 1GB RAM <--I went with this.

Only downside was that 12GB of the storage was saved for Nook content only but this is easily resolved by using a mircoSD card with an additional 32GB.

Word on the street is this blows Kindle's "Fire" out of the water.

Also I just want to talk about one app I just purchased for $5 called "Splashtop Remote" that let's you access you at home desktop from anywhere with a WiFi connection through the nook. It even routes all the sound to the nook as well if you want it to. SO say your in class or at a Starbucks and you want to show someone a video, song, file, game that's only on your desktop at home, if it's turned on, you can just control your computer with your Nook. Pretty Wicked!
read a few reviews where grandparents used this app with their nook to spy on their computer while the grand-children were using it. LOL, totally could screw with your friend's with this app.

I'll post more if I find any problems with it.

[Mystyrion]

I tried out a tablet once.
It was fun to play around with but ultimately I sold it online a few short months later.

I still have good eye sight and while I'm sure the Nook or Fire excel beyond what books my iphone has to offer, its good enough for me. Not to mention I actually like physical books.

I would like to hear others opinions on which they like better though. I am buying my mother a kindle touch or kindle fire whenever she decided whichever she wants. Perhaps I shall offer her a nook as well.

[Pete]

Kindle app on my droid razr... fricken awesome.

I still prefer real books though, but if I'm in a pinch and wanna read, I'll use the app.

[Joxsjua]

I still have good eye sight and while I'm sure the Nook or Fire excel beyond what books my iphone has to offer, its good enough for me. Not to mention I actually like physical books.

I would like to hear others opinions on which they like better though. I am buying my mother a kindle touch or kindle fire whenever she decided whichever she wants. Perhaps I shall offer her a nook as well.

Just an fyi I was just reading how Kindle Fire doesn't have an MICROsd card slot, while all nooks do. (probably not a big selling point for mothers)
and I'm not sure if this still holds true but last summer I remember being able to check out and download ebooks from my local library with my Nook but Kindle did not have that feature.

Oh another cool thing was if you have a Barnes and Noble account at the store you get 25% off any Nook. That's going from $250 down to $187.50 for Nook Tablet or you could get the Kindle Fire for $200 with half the RAM.

here's a site for a comparison of the two

Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet: Which Should You Buy? | PCWorld


hahhah, true though real books do have the advantage where you get to create a library and show off your collection

[Yoko]

This kind of looks like an advert.

I never liked physical books. I was brought up reading things online or on a computer interface. Doesn't mean I won't read a book, but not as often. This Nook tablet looks pretty good, but I probably won't spend the money on it until I'm out of college.

[Joxsjua]

This kind of looks like an advert.

I never liked physical books. I was brought up reading things online or on a computer interface. Doesn't mean I won't read a book, but not as often. This Nook tablet looks pretty good, but I probably won't spend the money on it until I'm out of college.

I am excited to use this at college because I wont have to print out the daily 15+ pages of powerpoints or pdf. doc. .. I can just put all the teacher-posted notes on the Tablet or if I really need, just run my desktop from my tablet in class.