NOOK TABLET from Barnes & Noble

Description from the factory
Nothing brings your reading to life like our VividViewTM Color Touchscreen. The rich high resolution backlit display uses more than 16 million colors to illuminate stunning images and crisp text for easy reading day or night. NOOK Color lets you go beyond reading with our built-in Wi-Fi® connection. Surf the web, check your email, read a favorite blog or search GoogleTM - it's all just a touch away.

Our exclusive LendMeTM app lets you lend and borrow books from friends, all with just a few taps. You can also share passages and recommend books right from the page you're reading via Facebook® or Twitter®. From designing your home page to personalizing your bookshelves or choosing just the right font, NOOK Color lets you create a customized reading experience that you can really call your own. Get ideas for books you'll love with our exclusive NOOKbook Personal Shopping.

Our expert booksellers will make recommendations based on books you like, so you can enjoy one great read after another. Kick back and have a little fun with the growing array of exclusive NOOKextras. Crossword puzzles, Sudoku, Chess and Pandora® internet radio are among the fun additions to the NOOK Color experience.

Technical Details
 Get social, surf the web, play games, even listen to music
 Over 2 million titles at your fingertips
 Kids' books come alive
 Magazines & newspapers in rich color
 Stunning 7-inch color touchscreen

General Riview from PCmag

Barnes & Noble announced its new Nook Tablet Monday and although it is a dead-ringer for last year's Nook Color, the combination of hardware and software enhancements will instantly make it one of the most impressive Android tablets on the market when it's released on Nov. 17.

After this morning's announcement, I was able to get some hands-on time with the device. The Nook Tablet is a speedy, well-designed tablet that could match up well against Amazon's Kindle Fire, set to be released on Nov. 15. I will need to see the two tablets side-by-side to make a real judgment, but I spent enough time with the new Barnes & Noble tablet to form some impressions.

If you judge this Nook by its cover, you'll have a tough time distinguishing it from the currently available NOOK Colorr. The Nook Tablet's aluminum shell and the addition of an almost-invisible microphone are the only physical cues that this is a different device than the earlier ereader. It is a tad lighter, at 14.1 ounces, but even that is hard to detect.

Although this similarity in appearance is a little odd, the Nook Color's design is actually pretty elegant—and at least this way all the cases built for the Nook Color will fit the Tablet as well. Since the Nook Color is often rooted by users to run Google Android apps and function as a tablet, maybe it's not so surprising that Barnes & Noble decided to base its first official tablet on the design of a device many are turning into a de facto tablet.

As with the NOOK Color, you can navigate the interface by tapping through menus and dragging icons, like apps and magazine covers, around the screen. The Nook button always brings up the home menu, but you can almost always get to your apps, your media, or your books with just a few taps. It is more user-friendly than stock Android, but of course you'll give up some flexibility there as well.


Review from User
I've read e-books on just about every device out there, while looking for the perfect mix of features to support them. I've gone from an ancient Palm III to all the Kindles and other readers that are out there. First, I must say my favorite way to read a book is via the treeware version - you just can't replace books. What you can do though is supplement them with a device that adds something to the experience that makes a device worth buying. For me, my new perfect device is the NookColor.