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Nook Color: Barnes & Noble's $250 Full-Color Tablet With Apps, Mags and Books

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By Sam Biddle

Nook Color: Barnes & Noble's $250 Full-Color Tablet With Apps, Mags and Books

Barnes & Noble's touchscreen Nook Color—a reading-centric 7" Android tablet—has arrived, and we're here live with the latest details.

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The Hardware

The new Nook sports an LG 7" 1024x600 full-color LCD touchscreen, accelerometer-enabled for both portrait and landscape orientations. The screen sports a laminated coating that should minimize glare. For storage, you'll have 8 GB of internal memory to fill, and a microSD slot for future expansion.

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The Interface

The Nook Color is essentially a reading-centric Android tablet with a heavily customized interface. The lower portion of the Nook Color's interface contains swipeable book (or magazine) covers, easily thrown up into the main portion of the screen for reading or sharing online with friends.

The library view categorizes your content into customized shelves (sort your newspapers by themselves, for example), along with personal doc and PDF files.

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The Content

• Support for the existing 2 million books in the Barnes & Noble Nook library
• Pandora streaming programming out of the box
• Facebook support
• Conde Nast and Hearst onboard
• First device to offer over 100 color newspapers and magazines (individual issues and subscriptions)
• Barnes & Noble reps are looking to foster a developer community to fill the Nook Color with its own apps
• Music playback, whether stored or streaming, will be possible while reading
• Apps that run on Android will be an "easy port" after optimization for the 7" screen, says a Nook rep, but there will be no access to Google's Android Marketplace
• The Nook Color will play "most" video formats outside of Flash

"Nook Friends" will allow readers to share their thoughts on whatever they're reading through various social networking platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. You'll be able to post your favorite quote from a novel you're reading, for example.

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"Nook Kids" will read selected children's books to your kids with the help of professional narrators.

Pricing and Availability

• $250, and they're "not thinking of lowering this price point anytime soon"
• Available "on or around" November 19th
• The Nook Color will be available at Walmart, Best Buy, Books-a-Million, and of course Barnes & Noble locations.