Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet Comparison
Many people are thinking of whether to buy Nook Tablet or Kindle Fire. It’s true that you can’t decide unless a clear picture what are the similarities and differences in physical and technical specifications and contents available between two devices. Here I’m not looking at the similarities, rather differences so that the capability of two devices can be distinguished. I put my comments in the third column. However, I’m not going to suggest one over another. You better make your judgment.
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| 14.6 ounces | Weight | 14.1 ounces | Nook Tablet is lighter |
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Dimensions |
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In all three dimensions, Kindle Fire is smaller |
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RAM |
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Nook Tablet has higher RAM |
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Battery |
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In terms of battery power Nook Tablet is amazing even better than iPad |
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Supported File Types |
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Nook Color Supports wider file formats campared to Kindle Fire |
| Storage |
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Kindle Fire has better shot! | |
| No SD card slot | Expandable Memory | Expand your memory up to 32GB with microSD™ memory card. | Nook Tablet has better carry on storage |
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Pre-loaded apps |
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In order to comment on this, we have to wait for the Kindle Fire to be released on November 15, 2011 |
| Amazon’s own Silk browser to enhance faster loading of web pages | Web Browser | Custom Android web browser | Kire has better browser |
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eBooks | More than 2 million titles including 1 million free, out-of-copyright books | Fire has more and better choices in terms of free books |
| 300 popular magazines and newspapers | Newsstand: Magazines | 198 | Fire has more and better choices |
| 300 popular magazines and newspapers | Newsstand: Newspapers | 36 | Fire has more and better choices |
| over 1000 popular children’s books never before available on Kindle | 654 | Fire has more and better choices | |
| Amazon’s own store: 17 million songs | Kids Book | Pandora, Rhapsody, MOG and Grooveshark | Fire is going to fire up music download! |
| Amazon’s own store: 100,000 titles | Movies & TV shows | Netflix, Hulu+ | Fire is going to fire up movie downlo |
| No | Microphone | Record narration for kids’ Read and Record™ books | This feature is unique to Nook Tablet |
| Amazon has its own Android app store, and have already more than 30,000 apps, and growing fast | Apps | approximately 1000 apps | Though none of these devices have access to Google App Market, Amazon is trying to catch up Google’s market with Kindle Fire |
| 29,050 | Textbooks | None | Fire might have good potential to be a cheap alternative to physical textbooks. Many school may adopt Kindle Fire rather than expensive iPad. Students can even borrow books from amazon store at a cheaper price. |
| $199 | Price | $249 | Fire is cheaper. |
| pre-order, release date: November 15, 2011 | Availability | pre-order, release date: November 18, 2011 | |
Buy Kindle Fire |
Buy Nook Tablet |
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