For years, news of Barnes & Noble’s Nook series of e-readers and Android tablets has surfaced again and again, but somehow the smallbrand-that-can face its own death with new hardware that brings it back from the brink of extinction. Today it comes in the form of a new 10-inch Nook tablet licensed by Lenovo.
There was good reason to repeatedly believe that Barnes & Noble had discontinued its Nook line, including the simple fact that its E-ink-based devices and more capable tablets were already sold out online and it is very difficult to find in stores later. But Barnes & Noble’s senior director for Nook operations, Susan McCulloch, said The edge yesterday that the low inventory is actually due to the strong demand and sales of its e-readers due to everyone sitting at home during the pandemic.
This will soon change for dedicated Nook users, as from early April, a new Nook 10-inch tablet, designed by Lenovo, will be available with a full metal housing and a 85 percent screen-to-body ratio . Powered by an octa-core processor “with a main frequency up to 2.3 GHz”, the new Nook actually features a 10.1-inch HD IPS touchscreen, while the 32 GB built-in storage can be further expanded with a microSD card. The battery life is promised to be up to “10 hours web page ”, which means that if you do not stream videos, you will not get them just as much battery life between charges. The new Nook also has Bluetooth connectivity, an FM radio and cameras on the front and back, so it can be used for more than just a media consumption device.
Although it has a custom Barnes & Noble front end that works on top of Android, the new Nook still has access to the Google Play Store. Users can therefore choose to get their content from the Barnes & Noble app or download books from other sellers such as Amazon or Rakuten via the Kindle and Kobo apps. With a price of $ 130, the new Nook sounds like another cheap and mostly capable Android tablet, but more importantly, it puts the Nook brand on life support for at least a few more years.
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