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Originally Posted by Noah98
The nook color has a higher quality screen than most android tablets because (taken from the B&N homepage tech specs):
•Stunning 7 inch VividView™ Color Touchscreen shows more than 16 million colors on the best-in-class IPS** display.
•Incredibly clear, sharp text and images from an unsurpassed high resolution display at 1024 x 600 delivering 169 pixels per inch (PPI).
Plus it has a wide viewing angle, and a special layer on the screen to reduce glare. Also, it is a capacitive, multitouch screen.
Tablets like the Archos 70 for example have a resolution of only 800 x 480, and the pixel density is less than the nook color.
The even cheaper tablets have resistive screens and poor viewing angles.
I believe the screen on the nook color really sets it apart from the competition, with the exception of the ipad. I have tried the Pandigital Novel, Cruz Reader, Cruz Tablet, Archos 7HT, and various other devices, and none of them come close to the screen quality (along with other features) of the ipad (which my wife owns).
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none of that is unique, or new, or make the device's price attractive for the features. i dont really want to argue. I really hope people who ordered nook color are happy. I'm pretty sure that 100% (or close to it) of people who did, who talk of "high quality components" have not held it in their hands or seen it live and are just speculating that it will have high quality components. your last paragraph illustrates it best: "nook color sets it apart" and then you go to compare plethora of tablets but nook color is not among them (and on top of that you almost say "just go with ipad").
I'm not buying nook color. If I was looking for something like that I would go with exact same android tablet, but unlocked, so from other manufacturer. Reason being I could do all the stuff nook color can do, plus I'm free to install alternatives to b&n on it (like amazon). I dont buy into "high quality components" - maybe it does have them, I'm pretty sure people that state that it does just dont know that at the moment and we wont actually know that before 11/19.
One other thing is I've been on the android side in the "apple vs android" discussion, but I'm slowly starting to think that android is overhyped altogether. so perhaps it is worth paying a bit more for ipad (and still get both b&n and amazon software on it) if you need that sort of device.
I'm staying with my good old nook 1 which I paid $259 for. And I still think it's a great device, I would not trade it for kindle 3 or anything else that's out there (still!). It would be great if b&n release soft updates more often to make it faster, make the software more user friendly and open the development to the community.