San Francisco: Barnes & Noble Inc unveiled its first tablet computer on Monday, taking on Amazon.com Inc. Here is a comparison of the main features of the Nook tablet from Barnes & Noble and Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet:Price
- The Kindle Fire costs $199.
- The Nook Tablet costs $249.Screen
- The Fire and the Nook Tablet have 7-inch color screens.Weight
- Amazon's Fire weighs 14.6 ounces.
- The Nook Tablet weighs 14.1 ounces.Connection
- The Fire and the Nook Tablet are Wi-Fi only.Processor
- Amazon's tablet has a 1 GHz dual-core processor with 512MB of RAM.
- The Nook Tablet has 1 GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of RAM.Storage
- The Fire comes with 8 gigabytes of internal storage.
- The Nook Tablet has 16 gigabytes that can be expanded to 32 gigabytes.Battery life
- The Fire lasts eight hours for reading, 7.5 for video.
- The Nook Tablet offers 11.5 hours of reading time, nine hours of video.Apps
- The Fire accesses Amazon's Android App store, which has roughly 10,000 apps.
- The Nook Tablet accesses Nook Apps and will offer 'thousands' of apps from third-party developers by the holidays.Books
- Kindle Fire users will be able to access more than 1 million Kindle e-books.
- Nook Tablet users can access more than 2.5 million Barnes & Noble e-books and other publications.Video
- The Fire can tap more than 100,000 movies and TV shows to buy or rent. Amazon Prime members, who pay $79 a year, can stream 11,000 movies and TV shows for free.
- The Nook Tablet comes with Netflix and Hulu Plus preloaded with free trials. Device will also offer the Flixster with UltraViolet service soon.Music
- The Kindle Fire gives access to more than 17 million songs via Amazon's MP3 service online.
- The Nook Tablet will store users' music and has music services including Pandora and Rhapsody preloaded with free 14-day trials.
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