For years, news from the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader line and the Android tablet being discontinued has surfaced again and again, but somehow thebrand-what-could challenge his own death with new hardware that brings him back from the brink of extinction. Today, it comes in the form of a new 10 inch Nook tablet courtesy of Lenovo.
There are good reasons to repeatedly believe that Barnes & Noble has discontinued its Nook line, including the simple fact that its more capable E Ink-based devices and tablets have been sold out online and have been very difficult to find in stores recently. But Barnes & Noble’s senior director for Nook operations, Susan McCulloch, said The Verge yesterday that low stock is actually the result of strong demand and sales from your e-readers as a result of everyone being stuck at home during the pandemic.
That will soon change for devoted Nook users, as from the beginning of April a new 10-inch Nook tablet will be available, designed with Lenovo, with an all-metal body and an “85% screen-to-body ratio”. with an octa-core processor “featuring a main frequency of up to 2.3 GHz”, the new Nook actually has a 10.1-inch HD IPS touch screen, while its 32 GB of built-in storage can be expanded with a card micro SD. The battery life promises to be up to “10 hours of web browsing ”, which means that if you’re streaming video, you won’t have the same battery life between charges. The new Nook also comes with Bluetooth connectivity, FM radio and front and rear cameras, so it can be used for more than just a media consuming device.
Although it has a personalized Barnes & Noble front-end running on Android, the new Nook still has access to the Google Play Store. So, users can choose to continue getting their content on the Barnes & Noble app or download books from other sellers, such as Amazon or Rakuten, through the Kindle and Kobo apps. At a price of $ 130, the new Nook sounds like another well-priced and largely capable Android tablet, but most importantly, this puts the Nook brand back on life support for at least a few more years.
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