‘Barnes & Noble will soon release a competitor for Kindle Fire”

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In all likelihood, brings the American book chain Barnes & Noble on november 16, a tablet focused on reading books. The Nook Tablet with 7″ips screen should be a competitor for Amazons Kindle Fire.

That reports Engadget, which features a series of documents that the advent of the new tablet betrayed. The Nook Tablet gets an ips screen of 7 inches, with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels. In the housing rotates a tweekernige OMAP4 processor with a clock speed of 1.2 GHz. Furthermore, 1GB of ram, 16GB of storage and wi-fi. The Nook Tablet supports other epub-, pdf – and doc-files. B&N also offers streaming video via built-in services such as Netflix and Hulu, which are popular in the United States.

The tablet is the successor of the Nook Color; also an e-reader with colour display, which also has a 7″screen, but with a OMAP3621 at 800MHz should do. In addition, the Nook Color with 8GB of less storage memory and there is half less ram built in. B&N has with the new Nook Tablet little has changed in the appearance.

B&N seems to be the release to want to compete with the Kindle Fire from Amazon, which was released recently. This is also apparent from the documents in the hands of Engadget. Amazon wants to make a tablet with e-readerfunctionaliteit especially private services market and provides the Kindle Fire will probably be under the cost through its web shop. The Nook Tablet with an expected price of 249 dollars slightly more expensive.

According to the documents, see the announcement of the Nook Tablet on november 7. This date has been in rumors previously mentioned. American consumers will then have the new tablet on november 16 in his hands. Although there is no Dutch release occurs, it is for consumers to Nook products from the Netherlands to order.