14 DAY TRIAL // Rumors regarding a successor for Barnes & Noble's Nook Color eReader/tablet combo have been circulating around the Web for quite some time now, but a series of recently leaked documents have now made this news official while also unveiling the specifications and the price of the device.
Barnes & Noble's upcoming contraption is called simply enough the Nook Tablet and by taking only a short glimpse at the device one would be tempted to think this is nothing more than a rebranded Nook Color.
While this may be true if judging by the design of the tablet, on the inside B&N has brought a lot of changes to its creation.
Gone is the single-core TI OMAP 3621 processor clocked at just 800MHz and paired with 512MB of RAM as this has been replaced with a 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP4 SoC seconded by 1GB of RAM.
That's more than double the compute capacity of the Nook Color, while also featuring 16GB on-board storage which can also be upgraded via a micro-SD card slot.
The rest of the specifications are pretty much the same, since the Nook Tablet comes with a 7-inch VividView IPS color touchpanel with a 1024 x 600 screen resolution and 802.11b/g/n WiFi connectivity.
According to the leaked B&N documents uncovered by endagdet, the Nook Tablet should be able to run for about eight hours on a single charge (with WiFi turned off), but watching videos drops battery life to just four hours.
Pricing will be set at $249 (180 EUR) in the US, so this will retail for $50 (36 EUR) more than its closest rival, the highly successful Amazon Kindle Fire. How the two tablets will stack up against each other remains to be seen, but competition is never a bad thing for us consumers.
