TOUCH TABLET and CELL PHONE

Top-notch e-reading experience. Interactive kids' books and magazines. Streaming video applications. Barnes & Noble NOOK angle Tablets are small tablets best to read books and magazines, but fell short with multimedia. These tablets readers back. New Nook Tablet provides the best color e-reading experience available, especially for magazines and children's books'. This is better than Amazon's Kindle Fire ($ 199, 4 stars), our Editors' Choice for small tablets. But the angle does not quite match with the Fire on the music, videos or applications, and Nook Color ($ 199, 4 stars) offers the same great e-reading experience for less money. Make no mistake, Nook is a small tablet is very good, but hell give a better experience all-around tablets and Color Nook offers better value as a color e-reader.

Physical Design and User Interface Feeling a little more 'book-like' Fire from the Amazon Kindle Fire , Tablet angle was significantly higher and slightly wider at 8.1 by 5.9 by 0.5 inches (HWD) thanks to a much larger panel, but mild in 14 , 1 ounce compared with 14.6 Amazon. There is a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, and the loop a little curious in the lower left corner, which serves as both a handle and a way to hide the MicroSD card slot reader, just like on Color Nook. Even Tablet Nook and Nook Color is almost identical except for the metal layers are slightly lighter-color. The tablet has a physical power button and volume control on side panel and one, "N"-shaped home button at the bottom of the 7-inch, 1024-by-600 touch screen.

Barnes & Noble NOOK has made a big deal out of how the IPS LCD screens are less reflective of the Amazon, but after using both screens for a long time to take some photos of each, I find I have to squint to tell the difference. It exists, but that does not mean pronounced enough to be a dealmaker. Both displays are much less readable in daylight rather than e-ink devices like the Touch screen on the Amazon Kindle Fire .

Nook tablets, such as the Amazon Kindle Fire , running a very highly customized version of Android 2.3 on TI OMAP4, 1GHz dual-core processors. But the point of the user interface does not look like Amazon (or, in this case, Android.)