This week we've gotten our first glimpse of the Barnes and Noble next-generation e-reader and multimedia device, the NOOK Tablet, and now on the day of announcement it's been revealed that the tablet is already up for pre-order. Below what we've got also is a couple of Barnes & Noble created presentation videos for the NOOK Tablet, both a 360 degree view of the device and a tour of the device by everyone's favorite B&N spokesperson, Kate! Have a peek!
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Kindle Fire called deficient as a media tablet by Barnes and Noble CEO
The gauntlet has been thrown down today by Barnes & Noble with a device by the name of NOOK Tablet, an upgrade of their NOOK Color e-reader, a release here clearly aimed directly at Amazon’s recently revealed Kindle Fire. What’s been revealed this week is several upgrades from the NOOK Color to the new NOOK Tablet including a lighter chassis, a larger processor, and a whole new reassurance that you’ll be running find with Nook Cloud for cloud storage. How does this add up against the Kindle Fire? Barnes and Noble CEO William J Lynch Jr has a few words to say on the subject, I assure you.
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NOOK Color cut to $199
Barnes & Noble has slashed the price of the NOOK Color, bringing the touchscreen Android-based tablet to directly compete with the Amazon Kindle Fire at $199.99. Slotting into the middle-ground between the new NOOK Tablet and the reduced NOOK Simple Touch, the NOOK Color will also get a firmware update in December that B&N calls its “largest ever.” Read on for all the change details.
NOOK Simple Touch updated: Faster, Longer, Cheaper
Barnes & Noble hasn't just got a new NOOK Tablet for us: the bookseller also has an updated version of the NOOK Simple Touch, now priced at just $99. A faster E Ink display takes pride of place, something B&N reckons takes just 450ms for each page-turn versus the Kindle's 600ms. You'll be reading for longer periods, too, thanks to battery improvements.
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Last Thursday a massive storm kicked up on the surface of the sun. The result of the storm was a gigantic and very powerful solar flare that was classified as X1.9 making it among the most powerful that the sun can produce. The flare was so powerful that 45 minutes after the flare erupted, radio communications on Earth were disrupted.
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NOOK Tablet announced officially
This week Barnes & Noble has released details on it’s next generation NOOK device, the NOOK Tablet, an e-reader with twice the power of its predecessor with many of the same same specifications besides. Outside you’ll find the same 7-inch VividView IPS LCD display found on the original NOOK Color and the overall shape of the device is quite similar as well. Inside you’ll find a dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4 processor at 1GHz, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and a microSD card slot capable of holding 32GB of additional space for all your Barnes & Noble distributed multimedia.
WIMM One developer preview offered up for $299
It appears that the folks at WIMM Labs have decided that it's time to let the cat out of the proverbial bag with their wearable 1.4-inch color touchscreen Android device, here in the form of a developer preview device for a mere $299. We've gotten our hands on a WIMM earlier this year and just yesterday posted a review of a similar device that'll certainly go into near-direct competition with the WIMM in the near future: the Motorola MOTOACTV. Is this WIMM's response to a Motorola's release of the next watch-based Android?
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Green wind farms disrupt weather and military radar
One of the things that Obama wants to leave as his legacy is a big push to more the country to green energy sources. One of the green power sources that are becoming increasingly common is wind farms that use giant windmills to generate electricity. The problem that the military and National Weather Service has found is that these wind farms interfere with radar.
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Apple Security head allegedly steps down
Over the last few years, Apple has had some serious issues with security of its prototype devices. Before the iPhone 4 launched an engineer that was testing the device got drunk in a bar in California and left the prototype device on the barstool. It was picked up by a couple guys that eventually sold it to Gizmodo. Back in August another prototype iPhone was lost in a bar.
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Verizon double-data LTE promotion revealed
It should be no surprise to you at this point that the DROID RAZR is about to be one big gigantic deal for both Verizon and Motorola what with its slick nature and LTE connectivity, and here's another reason to get excited: a brand new double-data plan. Verizon will be starting a promotion on November 8th, 2011, in which both existing and new customers are eligible for double data plans. Those people getting a 2GB data plan now for $30 will soon be getting a 4GB data plan for that same $30. Sound like a pretty good deal to attach to your brand spanking new LTE device?
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Motorola DROID RAZR Review
Motorola’s DROID RAZR has a lot to live up to – and a clear warning around how to drop the ball in mobile strategy. Named after the slimline clamshell handset that changed Motorola’s fortunes in 2004, this new dual-core Android promises to be the world’s thinnest smartphone with power and performance to match. Thing is, Motorola quickly milked the original RAZR to death, pushing out special edition variant after variant while the market left its underwhelming specifications behind. Is this new DROID worthy of the RAZR name? Read on for the full SlashGear review.
HP debuts new TouchSmart 620 3D AIO and 2311gt 3D display
HP has revealed some new 3D hardware for fans of 3D content. The new gear includes a new 3D edition AIO computer and a new 3D display. The AIO computer is the TouchSmart 620 3D and it has high performance for 2D and 3D content. It has an integrated webcam that lets user make their own 3D movies and still photos that they can share.
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