Sitting down? Good. Come November 16th, Amazon’s Kindle Fire can have company. We’ve wrapped our paws around a stash of documents confirming the upcoming launch of the primary bona fide tablet inside the Nook line, and lo and behold, the Nook Tablet will emerge as being a dead-ringer for the Nook Color that already exists. What we’re gazing is a 7-inch VividView IPS color touchpanel with a 1024 x 600 screen resolution (that’s 169 pixels per inch), a 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP4 processor, 1GB of RAM, dimensions of 8.1- x 5- x 0.48-inches, 16GB of inbuilt storage, a microSD expansion slot, roughly eight hours of battery life with WiFi switched off (that sinks to four hours with videos playing back), 802.11b/g/n WiFi and support for a smorgasbord of file formats including ePUB, PDF, XLS, DOC, PPT, TXT, DOCM, Flash, JPG, MP3, MP4 and AAC.
What’s looney is simply how similar this thing is to the Nook Color, even in functionality; in reality, B&N simply says that it offers “everything the Nook Color [does] + definitely the right in HD entertainment.” We’ve also confirmed that it’s going to ship for $249 here within the States — a whole $50 greater than Amazon’s Kindle Fire. So, why does B&N think you’ll pony up the additional? For one, the Nook Tablet has twice the RAM and twice the storage in comparison to its closest rival, while also being lighter and getting access to over two million books, magazines and newspapers. So, what say you? You’ll pre-order your individual on November 7th, and for those still dubious, in-store demonstrations will begin at the 15th.
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