My sister visited Chez aoeu last week and brought a new toy, the thing in the title. She loaned her laptop to my neice for travel and it was stolen in Paris. C'est la vie.
Chez aoeu has crapcast wifi and sister relied on her Nook HD+ rather than her iPhone3.
I have a Kindle for reading. I've been looking for a cheap tablet for the purpose of showing my photos without the bother of paying for prints. This is it.
There are six flavors in two sizes.
The small one: Nook HD is a 7-inch tablet with a resolution of 1440x900. I may buy one as it fits in my current three lens camera bag. Two colors and either 8 or 16 GB memory.
The big one: Nook HD+ is
is a 9-inch tablet e-reader/media player by Barnes and Noble. It, like the 7-inch Nook HD, is a successor to the Nook Tablet, was announced in September 2012, and is available in two internal memory sizes. The choices for the NOOK HD+ are 16GB ($269) and 32GB ($299), with expandable memory via a microSD card (up to 64GB). The Nook HD+ is only available in one color, Slate (black with a hint of grey).[2]
The device was offered for sale in B&N shops in December 2012. It has come with many deals, such as receiving a $50 gift card to the Barnes & Noble shop when one bought a Nook HD+.[3] In March 2013, B&N announced if one purchased a Nook HD+, one would get a free Nook Simple Touch for a limited time.
In May 2013, B&N updated the Nook HD and HD+ to have full access to the Google Play Store. They also deeply discounted the devices in the few weeks preceding Mother's Day[4] and Father's Day.[5][6]
The wiki article is not among the best.
150 dollars for the 16 GB version and thirty dollars more for the extra 16GB. I bought the better version. It also has a micro SDXC slot adding up to 64GB.
For me the display is the killer app.
9" LED Backlit screen (1920×1280 @ 257ppi), Multi-touch
Not quite a retina display but nearly as good as a darkroom printed paper photograph.
A secondary benefit is that it has a working web browser capable of anything the GOS can throw at it. Test? This is not a feature I want to use but when the power goes out, as it does at the heart of the empire, I want available.
The good news for us is B&N's bad news. They weren't selling in a closed relationship to the B&N Nook store and they are on sale cheap. When you plug it in and turn it on you must register with B&N and it has generated some weak Spam. A credit card is optional and I declined. After it charges the update appears and you have in your hand a cheap Jellybean Android device with the best color screen I've yet seen.
I registered with Google with a nickname rather than my real name. I'm not afraid of the No Such Agency.
Full disclosure: I have no relationship to Barnes & Noble other than being an occasional customer. If Mother owned B&N stock I would have had it sold. This is not investment advice.