10-26-2010, 04:56 PM | #16 |
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Also, looking out the Cruz reader, it states 24 hours standby, so you'll need to keep this charged up nearly every day. As B&N spec the nookcolor at 8 hours read time and the cruz at 10+ hours I am going to assume the Nookcolor may not even last 24 hours in standby mode.
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10-26-2010, 04:57 PM | #17 |
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In the long term, Android tablets will put price pressure on the Nook Color (why is this more expensive than the Nook WiFi, given that the LCD screen is probably cheaper than the EInk screen?). The price difference is still large enough that the Nook Color can distance itself from the iPad, but this would be even more true if the Nook Color was $199.
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Agreed. iPad is almost a synonym for tablet in a sense.
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it'll be a tough sell to sit down and read a book eink lovers like myself but it does fill that niche of people who do want color and want magazines, comics, Magna, children's books etc. Has alot of nice extra features such as Pandora pre loaded along with intergrated FaceBook and Twitter. This will be interesting to watch. It'll come in at $250 cheaper than the iPad and Galaxy Tab and a $150 cheaper than the Sprint's Galaxy Tab w/contract. |
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Smartphones are overpriced also. An iPad costs more to manufacture than an iPhone; yet it sells for less. Where's the logic in that?
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The long term may be shorter than B&N would like. My guess is maximum two years out. Maybe one, i.e., next holiday season.
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It's pretty much the same screen resolution as the iPad (1024x600 compared to the iPad's 1024x768), but it should look a bit sharper due to the higher pixel density (167dpi compared with the iPad's 133dpi). The higher density must mean that it's a little smaller than the iPad.
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It's difficult to see, though, what the benefit of a less-flexible dedicated B&N tablet is compared to a generic Android tablet running the Nook application. They've said that it won't have access to the standard Android app store.
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