Nook Tablet vs Nook Color, which should you buy?

May 29, 2013 2:20 pm / Posted by Taylor Scorpio to Tablet PCs

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I'm looking to get a Nook for Christmas, but really what's the difference between Nook Color and Nook Tablet? The $250 Nook Tablet isn't a completely new product or a radical overhaul of the Nook Color. It's still a 7-inch tablet packing wi-fi and 16GB of storage. But in addition to making it thinner, and lighter, they've crammed in a 1GHz dual-core processor as well. Here, we went through the hardware, user interface, content, comparison Nook Tablet and Nook Color.

Screen:
Nook Color: 7″ multi-touch display, 1024 x 600 delivering 169 pixels per inch (PPI)
Nook Tablet: 7″ multi-touch display, 1024 x 600 delivering 169 pixels per inch (PPI) IPS

Size/Weight:
Nook Color: 8.1 x 5.0 x 0.48 inches, 15.8 oz (449g)
Nook Tablet: 8.1 x 5.0 x 0.48 inches, 14.1 oz (400g)

Processor:
Nook Color: ARM Cortex-A8 processor running at 800 MHz, 512 RAM
Nook Tablet: 1.2GHz dual-core OMAP4 processor, 1GB of RAM

Android OS:
Nook Color: Forked Android 2.2 "Froyo"
Nook Tablet: Runs 2.3 "Gingerbread" but with a BN overlay. No open access.

Connectivity:
Nook Color: Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n) and micro USB (also does not support ad-hoc wifi networks)
Nook Tablet: Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n) and micro USB (also does not support ad-hoc wifi networks

Memory:
Nook Color: 8 GB (6GB for content; 5GB reserved for Barnes & Noble content), Expandable memory- add up to 32 GB w/ microSD? memory card for personal files
Nook Tablet: 16 GB (13GB for content; 12GB reserved for Barnes & Noble content), Expandable memory- add up to 32 GB w/ microSD? memory card for personal files4

Battery Life:
Nook Color: Up to 8 hours of reading
Nook Tablet: Up to 11.5 hours of reading or 9 hours of video

Wi-Fi:
Nook Color: 802.11 b/g/n, Free Wi-Fi? in Barnes & Noble Bookstores
Nook Tablet: 802.11 b/g/n, Free Wi-Fi? in Barnes & Noble Bookstores

Other Features:
Nook Color: Portrait and landscape reading modes, Android operating system, Word, Excel and PowerPoint support
Nook Tablet: Portrait and landscape reading modes, Android operating system, Word, Excel and PowerPoint support and built-in microphone

Conclusion:
No matter which tablet you choose for your Christmas gift, you want to make your Nook Color, or Nook Tablet content more colorful, and you would like to transfer more movies/music to your Tablet from PC, then maybe you can free download the powerful and smart Nook Tablet Converter and Nook Tablet Converter mac to solve transferring movie to Nook Tablet for playback, and then you can play iTunes movie, YouTube video, AVI, WMV, MOV, MKV, VOB on Nook Tablet.