Difference Between Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet

Kindle Fire vs Nook Tablet | Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet vs Amazon Kindle Fire Speed, Performance and Features
 

You might be looking for a cheaper tablet this year, and then here is a good comparison for you. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have something better to offer this Christmas. Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet are the most competitive tablets in this season. Nowadays, people tend to move for tablets rather going for a Note Book or a Smart Phone, since tablets are getting more and more powerful and stylish. As you all know, with the arrival of Galaxy tab and iPad 2, the current trends for tablets and pads have incredibly changed and increased, now people look for cheaper alternatives with reputable specs instead going for super-fast tablets for higher prices. Let’s go and compare Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet to see what’s best for your need. 

Amazon Kindle Fire 

Starting with its dimensions, Kindle Fire has dimensions of 190 mm x 120 mm x 11.4 mm. As you might have noticed, it’s not a considerable change in size compared with the Nook tablet, approximately the same size, but when it comes to the weight, Kindle is behind the Nook, Kindle weighs 16.6 ounces. If we compare the dimensions, both come to the same rank, although Nook is quite bigger and lighter. Let’s move to the design. Since Nook comes with soft-touch material and feels so comfortable, whereas Kindle has sleekly black design, and it looks same as Blackberry Playbook. Nook is keeping its unique design plus lighter and thinner qualities, whereas Kindle comes under the sophisticated category with its solid black design , You might feel that it’s worth buying Kindle, since it looks expensive and professional rather going for a toys flavored item, there are more to compare. Both have the same resolution and size for their screens that’s 7-inch display (1024 x 600 resolution). On the other hand, Kindle Fire doesn’t give up the battle, where it comes with a multi-touch display with IPS alias In-plane switching. I’m not going to talk about this technology, simply this is the same technology comes with iPad2. Kindle Fire has achieved more improvements on its screen than the Nooks design. 

The processor, which is the same powerful 1GHz TI OMAP 4 dual-core processor for both Kindle and Nook. The Nook Tablet features a 1 GB of RAM compared to the Kindle Fire’s 512 MB RAM. The Kindle Fire comes with the Amazon Silk browser, which is far better than the other browsers because it’s a cloud-accelerated browser plus Flash Player enabled browser. About the memory, Kindle Fire has 8 GB memory, whereas The Nook Tablet comes with more memory, that’s 16 GB built-in memory(can be extended up to 32 GB with a microSD memory card ). 

Let me talk about the apps, Since Kindle Fire is connected to the cloud service. It includes more features (almost all the Amazon services) such as Prime Kindle, App Store, Instant Video, MP3,Pandora, Kindle Store. (It’s more than 1 million books + 17 million songs). The Nook comes with its preloaded few apps, and it has 2.5 million book titles plus has access to the music services like Grooveshar, MOG, Rhapsody. For watching movies and TV shows, Netflix, Hulu Plus, Pandora packed with it, unfortunately you can’t download apps from Android Market place. This is where Kindle Fire comes a bit ahead, since Amazon App Store is almost same as Android Market. 

Neither Kindle nor Nook comes with a Camera, that’s not a good news for you, anyway Nook comes with a pre-build microphone. The connectivity, both have Wi-Fi capability where Nook has free accessibility in all Barnes & Noble stores. After all, the most important thing, the Battery life, Kindle Fire can stand for 8 hours of reading plus 7.5 hours of video playback (Wi-Fi off). Since Amazon or Barnes & Noble haven’t published the mAh values for batteries, we cannot exactly define what’s best, it depends on wireless usage and other facts. 

The Kindle Fire will cost for $199 with all of these sophisticated features. For the extra amount that you have to pay for Nook, not useless, it’s all about your choice. All in all, the Amazon Fire is much worth for buying under this price. In future more features will be added to the Kindle and it will go beyond customers’ expectations. 

Nook Tablet 

Since you have seen the comparison above, you could see through the differences clearly, here we have nothing to specify, but I will roughly go through the specs. Nook comes with a bit larger display compared with the Kindle. The dimensions are 201 mm x 128 mm x 13.2 mm. Nook weighs only 14.1 ounces and the reason behind weight loss of Nook is its plastic bezel. As Barnes and Nobles explains, Nook has the best Vivid View touch screen with fewer glares, which is very good for those who love reading eBooks using their tablet. On the other hand is Nook looks more sporty and handy, when we compare with Kindle Fire. Nook comes with powerful 1GHz TI OMAP 4 dual-core processor and 1 GB of RAM as you have noticed. There is a small performance gap between these two tablets. Battery life is always a good point to talk about, when it comes to the battery, Nook has 11.5 hours of reading and 9 hours video playback. Finally the price, Nook will compete with the price of $249.