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I'm not sure why so many of these speculation articles don't mention the NOOK Color, which is a 7" Android-based tablet primarily concerned with reading with a

by hullo 15y ago

I'm not sure why so many of these speculation articles don't mention the NOOK Color, which is a 7" Android-based tablet primarily concerned with reading with a secondary focus on media, that has a specialized Android app market. Price: $250. There's your target. The story with a 10" will be different, but it sounds like that's a question for next year.

SwellJoe 15y ago
Agreed. I played with a Nook Color a couple weeks ago and was impressed. If I could figure out a reason to add yet another piece of portable electronic junk to my collection (alongside a Nexus One, a Dell netbook dualbooting Linux or Mac OS X, a laptop, a Kindle, a DS, and probably other crud I can't remember now), it's what I'd buy. It's cheap enough to nearly be an impulse purchase, it seemed fast enough and powerful enough for what I'd want to use it for (though the netbook with a keyboard works better, since writing is mostly what I imagine I'd want to use it for), and it was cute and fun to play with. So, yeah, there's already a low price point competitor to the iPad, though it's not being marketed as such. B&N may be making a mistake in not pushing it harder as a full-featured tablet...but maybe they know its limitations better than I do. At that price point, it almost certainly is similarly specced to a very low end Android phone, so probably can't actually run a lot of bigger apps effectively.
- joezydeco 15y ago
  B&N isn't making a mistake in not pushing it as a tablet...because it's not a tablet. It's an e-reader that just happens to have a little web browser and app store mechanism in it. B&N is selling these at a loss (or at least breakeven) hoping for the makeup in book sales. They can't be running around telling everyone that it's great as a web tablet and ignore the book thing.

5 ms·

I'm not sure why so many of these speculation articles don't mention the NOOK Color, which is a 7" Android-based tablet primarily concerned with reading with a

by hullo 15y ago

SwellJoe 15y ago
Agreed. I played with a Nook Color a couple weeks ago and was impressed. If I could figure out a reason to add yet another piece of portable electronic junk to my collection (alongside a Nexus One, a Dell netbook dualbooting Linux or Mac OS X, a laptop, a Kindle, a DS, and probably other crud I can't remember now), it's what I'd buy. It's cheap enough to nearly be an impulse purchase, it seemed fast enough and powerful enough for what I'd want to use it for (though the netbook with a keyboard works better, since writing is mostly what I imagine I'd want to use it for), and it was cute and fun to play with. So, yeah, there's already a low price point competitor to the iPad, though it's not being marketed as such. B&N may be making a mistake in not pushing it harder as a full-featured tablet...but maybe they know its limitations better than I do. At that price point, it almost certainly is similarly specced to a very low end Android phone, so probably can't actually run a lot of bigger apps effectively.
- joezydeco 15y ago
  B&N isn't making a mistake in not pushing it as a tablet...because it's not a tablet. It's an e-reader that just happens to have a little web browser and app store mechanism in it. B&N is selling these at a loss (or at least breakeven) hoping for the makeup in book sales. They can't be running around telling everyone that it's great as a web tablet and ignore the book thing.