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There’s no video output, which does feature on the Amazon Kindle Fire HD, although you can buy a bespoke HDMI output cable that plugs into the tablet’s main socket.įrom a pure hardware design perspective, there’s no clear winner in the sub-£200 7-inch tablet war yet. The only other socket on the Nook HD is a 3.5mm headphone jack, which sits up top. This connection is also used to charge the internal battery – a power adapter that the cable plugs into is included as standard. Rather than using a standard microUSB connector, though, the Barnes & Noble Nook HD has a proprietary socket that’s a dead spit of the old 30-pin Apple plug. Plug the tablet in to a computer using the supplied cable and both the internal memory and any inserted memory card will show up as disk drives, ready to dump files onto.

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Nowadays, even ultra-high capacity cards like this aren’t too pricey, available for around £40.īarnes & Noble really wants you to use its own online stores to consume content like movies, TV episodes, books and apps, but you can also transfer files to the memory manually fairly easily. Cards up to 64GB capacity are supported, ramping up maximum capacity to 80GB. They offer double the storage for roughly the same price, but being able to boost storage with an inexpensive microSD card will be a huge bonus for some. It’s therefore slightly more expensive than both the Amazon and Google alternatives. The lower-end Nook HD model has just 8GB of internal memory, costing £159, and the 16GB edition tops off the range at £189.

Expandable memory makes the relatively poor amount of integrated storage you get here easier to forgive. It has a microSD memory card slot on its bottom edge, unlike the Google Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD, which make you stick to the 16GB or 32GB of internal memory. There’s another key hardware difference between the Nook HD and its key rivals too. There is a functional benefit the non-flat front – it helps to protect the screen when the tablet is laid down face-first.

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It is significantly more distinctive-looking than most cheap Android tablets, though, the contoured grey plastic front giving the curious impression of a device that’s already in a case. The back and front bits are matt, but the sides are glossy and the unmistakeable seams that outline each betray the tablet’s budget roots. Its screen surround is glass and there are three grey plastic elements that form the front, the sides and the rear. The Barnes & Noble Nook HD’s outer body is made up of four different parts.

However, like the Amazon tablet it’s not quite a beauty. This generous bezel works in partnership with a soft-touch back that has a curved ridge that sits under your finger, making the Nook HD much more comfortable to hold than the Amazon Kindle Fire HD. There’s an inch-wide grey bezel around the sides of the screen surround, acting as a thumb rest intended to supply the most relaxed grip possible. Instead, Barnes & Noble has given ergonomics precedence. At 307g, it’s lighter than the Google Nexus 7, 340g, and the Kindle Fire HD, which is a hefty 395g.īeing lightweight may be a design focus, but being desperately small and slim is not. One of the key taglines Barnes & Noble has stuck on the Nook HD tablet is that it’s the lightest 7-inch tablet around. It wants to be your ebook reader, as well as letting you perform tablet tasks like checking email, browsing the web and – naturally – playing Angry Birds. Like the Amazon tablet, it offers access to a handful of content portals, supplying games, apps, videos, books and magazines. And for at least a handful of people, it should do. With a high-resolution 7-inch screen, dual-core 1.5GHz processor, aggressive £159 starting price and expandable memory, it wants to lure people away from the Amazon Kindle Fire HD and Google Nexus 7.

However, the Barnes & Noble Nook HD is no limping entry to the tablet game. Like Hershey’s chocolate, they’re around, but haven’t yet woven themselves into the cultural fabric of the country. But here in the UK, neither name holds much weight. In the US, Barnes & Noble and the Nook range of eReaders are well-known.