![]() ![]() ![]() That's because the 10-inch tablet is pushing 40 percent more pixels on the screen. Surprisingly, they were worse than we saw on the 7-inch Nook, which has a slower 1.3GHz processor. Performance benchmarks on the 1.5GHz MediaTek chipset were not great. Amazon's tablets will always try to drive you toward Amazon content, and there's a lot there, but if you prefer a different content provider, Amazon can make it really inconvenient to install. Google Play gets you multiple bookstores, including Nook, Kindle, and Kobo multiple comics stores including Marvel Unlimited and various third-party comics reading apps. Having a full copy of Android Oreo Go 8.1 on here, with Google Play, is a huge advantage over Amazon's similarly sized Amazon Fire HD 10. Unlike with Amazon tablets, you get that choice. Or, you can clear out the widgets, load other apps from the Google Play store, and consume whatever you want. You can log into Nook if you want, to read your Nook books and go shopping. It connects to both 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi-Fi, and boots up with a bunch of B&N apps and widgets on the home screen. ![]() Buying my Nook at a store, for example, I was stuck behind an older gentleman getting twenty minutes' worth of help setting up his accounts-annoying for me, to be sure, but a sign that the Nook has a level of customer service many notches above some drug store tablet. Unlike random cheapo tablets you'd buy from shady channels, though, the Nook actually has support, including a 15-day return policy and, more importantly, the ability to bring it into any Barnes & Noble to get help. The Nook is made by Southern Telecom, a New York-based, white-label device maker that also builds gadgets under the Polaroid, Sharper Image, SmarTab, and Westinghouse brands. That's not a knock on the Nook itself, but just on every tablet in this price range, and the performance trade-offs they have to make to hit their price target. That's ambitious, but I think overly so: Pushing this tablet into heavy web browsing or Google Docs work will be frustrating. On the bottom, the tablet has pogo pins to connect to a special $39.99 keyboard case. (Opens in a new window) Read Our Samsung Galaxy Tab A 8.0 Review The soft-touch back has a Nook logo on it. It isn't rugged or waterproof, although its plastic build can likely take some minor drops. On the sides the tablet has power and volume buttons, a micro USB charging port, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a microSD card slot. It's pretty bright at 365 nits on maximum, and its colors tend a little blue, but not nearly as aggressively as the 7-inch Nook's screen does. It measures 10.3 by 6.2 by 0.4 inches (HWD) and weighs a pound. The 10-inch Nook is a relatively generic tablet. Those are all good things, though other tablets offer slightly better value if you don't need the in-store support. Barnes and Noble's 10.1-inch Nook Tablet ($129.99) has the basic performance you need for looking at colorful content on the go, with decent battery life and unusual levels of service and support for the price. Kids' books and comics don't work well on ebook readers and small tablets, so a big, inexpensive tablet might be just the ticket. How to Set Up Two-Factor Authentication.How to Record the Screen on Your Windows PC or Mac.How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files.How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill.How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad.How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages. ![]()
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