A lightweight e-reader called the Kindle Fire is on the market in time for Holiday gift giving along with the Kindle Touch. With a very reasonable price of $199, it has garnered plenty of attention from consumers and the media. Amazon's biggest competitor in the tablet market is Barnes and Noble's Nook. The Nook Color had a retail price of $249, but reduced it to $199 immediately before the release of the Kindle Fire. That move has created even more attention from the media. Amazon and Barnes and Noble are going at it head-to-head. The winner in this race is us.
When comparing the Nook vs Kindle, they have identical 16Hz dual-core TI Omap4 processors; they are both Wi-Fi compatible at 802.11 b/g/n, and neither one has 3G, GPS, or a camera. That is where the technological similarities between the two tablets end. The Nook Color boasts 16GB of storage, but only 1GB of it is available for personal content storage. The Kindle Fire has 8GB of storage and offers free cloud storage in its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) system, including 5GB of storage for personal content. Battery life depends on usage, but the Nook Tablet can generally last about 11 hours without using Wi-Fi, and the Kindle Fire will last about 8 hours under the same circumstances. Recharging the battery takes four -5 hours.
Both the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire have vibrant, 7-inch, multi-touch LCD display screens using 169 pixels per inch, and a screen resolution of 1024 x 600. Tough, scratch-resistant multi-touch screens are pretty much the norm these days, with all the abuse they get from our fingers tapping at them.
The wide-angle anti-glare display screen of the Kindle Fire is made from Corning Gorilla Glass and is able reproduce 16 million colors. The Nook Color has a backlit display that is useful when reading in poor lighting situations. Both tablets do an outstanding job of creating vivid colors and detail.
How fast are the browsers of the Nook vs Kindle? The Nook browser moves extremely fast and many people are surprised to find that the browser on the Kindle Fire called Amazon Silk moves just as fast. Amazon has a rich catalog of books, music , and movies. Barnes and Noble's catalog, though noteworthy, does not have the breadth of Amazon's, and has partnered with companies such as Netflix to fill in the inventory gap. There are over 15,000 apps available to download in the Kindle Fire, compared to over 700 for the Nook Color.
The Nook vs Kindle competition really comes down to creating more value for the consumers. Since the e-reader tablets are not exactly the same, and they should not be, the Nook vs Kindle comparison is like the old comparisons between Chevrolet vs Ford, it depends on what your preference is.
When comparing the Nook vs Kindle, they have identical 16Hz dual-core TI Omap4 processors; they are both Wi-Fi compatible at 802.11 b/g/n, and neither one has 3G, GPS, or a camera. That is where the technological similarities between the two tablets end. The Nook Color boasts 16GB of storage, but only 1GB of it is available for personal content storage. The Kindle Fire has 8GB of storage and offers free cloud storage in its EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) system, including 5GB of storage for personal content. Battery life depends on usage, but the Nook Tablet can generally last about 11 hours without using Wi-Fi, and the Kindle Fire will last about 8 hours under the same circumstances. Recharging the battery takes four -5 hours.
Both the Nook Tablet and the Kindle Fire have vibrant, 7-inch, multi-touch LCD display screens using 169 pixels per inch, and a screen resolution of 1024 x 600. Tough, scratch-resistant multi-touch screens are pretty much the norm these days, with all the abuse they get from our fingers tapping at them.
The wide-angle anti-glare display screen of the Kindle Fire is made from Corning Gorilla Glass and is able reproduce 16 million colors. The Nook Color has a backlit display that is useful when reading in poor lighting situations. Both tablets do an outstanding job of creating vivid colors and detail.
How fast are the browsers of the Nook vs Kindle? The Nook browser moves extremely fast and many people are surprised to find that the browser on the Kindle Fire called Amazon Silk moves just as fast. Amazon has a rich catalog of books, music , and movies. Barnes and Noble's catalog, though noteworthy, does not have the breadth of Amazon's, and has partnered with companies such as Netflix to fill in the inventory gap. There are over 15,000 apps available to download in the Kindle Fire, compared to over 700 for the Nook Color.
The Nook vs Kindle competition really comes down to creating more value for the consumers. Since the e-reader tablets are not exactly the same, and they should not be, the Nook vs Kindle comparison is like the old comparisons between Chevrolet vs Ford, it depends on what your preference is.
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