Barnes & Noble hits back with their new Android 6.0 tablet ‘NOOK Tablet 7’. Measuring 0.39″ thick and weighing 8.80 oz, this very affordable tablet has a 7.0-inch 1024 x 600 IPS display (171 ppi), a quad-core processor (MediaTek MT8163 likely), no details about the RAM and an 8GB of internal storage.
Apart from that, the tablet also sports a 2MP front-facing camera, a 5MP autofocus rear-facing camera, a microSD card slot (up to 128GB), a micro-USB 2.0 port, a 3.5mm headset jack and a long-lasting battery that keeps you powered up to 7 hours of reading, web browsing and video watching.
Running on Android 6.0 Marshmallow OS, the NOOK Tablet 7 provides dual-band WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n for connectivity. The NOOK Tablet 7 is currently available for pre-order for just $49.99 and will start shipping from November 25th. [Product Page]
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Barnes and Noble has been quietly erasing all mentions of its Nook for PC and Mac, but now we have the first official confirmation that both are no more. An official statement, reported by The Digital Reader, says that the company is no longer supporting software for Windows 2000/XP/Vista or Mac OS X, and is directing users to switch to Nook for Web in its place. That, or you could always help prop up the company's brick-and-mortar operations by purchasing some of these.
Filed under: Desktops
Source: The Digital Reader
Microsoft has put forward an offer to buy complete control of Nook Media LLC, according to internal documents seen by TechCrunch. Redmond's joint venture with Barnes & Noble was set up last year to handle the Nook e-reader, tablet and college bookstore business. If the documents are accurate, Microsoft will dump the academic retail chain while retaining the digital arm of the partnership for $1 billion. The evidence also suggests that Nook Media will axe its Android tablets by the end of the 2014 financial year, concentrating instead on pushing the Nook store onto third-party devices including Windows 8 and/or Surface hardware. Simple Touch owners shouldn't be too worried, however, as the leaked documents state that Nook Media's e-reader division won't be killed off, as the technology is facing its own "natural decline." We've reached out to Barnes & Noble for something more official, and we're waiting to hear back.
Filed under: Tablets, Microsoft
Source: TechCrunch
Just 12 hours after (already denied) rumors circulated that Barnes & Noble may ditch its Nook business, the company has had to make an announcement concerning its retail division. Thanks to SEC regulations, the company has had to 'fess up that majority shareholder and "founder*" Leonard Riggio is pondering buying the brick-and-mortar retail business -- presumably hiving off the Nook brand as a separate entity. Of course, this could easily just be the rattling of sabers by a disgruntled founder (and not for the first time of late), or we might see the bookseller cleft in two parts in the near future. Either way, we'll be watching with great interest.
* He founded the book chain that would buy the Barnes & Noble name.