A Lenovo Nook? Barnes & Noble’s tablet is coming back next week

A Lenovo Nook? Barnes & Noble'south tablet is coming dorsum next week

Barnes & Noble Nook — soon to be made by Lenovo

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We haven't seen a new Barnes & Noble Nook tablet or due east-reader since 2018 — but Lenovo's irresolute that. We just learned that the Nook brand will return next week in a tablet — and perchance not an e-reader.

This comes from The Verge, which quotes Susan McCulloch, Barnes & Noble'southward senior director for Nook operations, that a new NOOK tablet "designed with Lenovo" will launch next week.

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Will this be a branded version of the Lenovo Tab P11 that was appear at CES? We'll have to wait and see. Unfortunately, Lenovo'due south concluding stab at a monochrome e-ink Nook was not a success: the Nook GlowLight 3 suffered from poor interface design and sluggish performance, which just gets in the way of your reading.

Interestingly plenty, the Nook's history includes total-color tablets that are forked versions of Android, and were set to compete with Amazon's Fire tablet. The beginning Nook arrived in 2009, and paired an due east-ink screen with a smaller color touchscreen. And then, 2010's Barnes & Noble Nook Color tablet switched over to a total-color panel.

Most recently, Barnes & Noble released the $129 x.1-inch Nook, its largest Android-based tablet ever. On March 17, Good e-Reader reported that all of the Barnes and Noble Nook eastward-readers were sold out, as the retailer caught changing out its supply before the new proclamation.

The big question about a new Nook is how it will go on to fight the war against the Amazon Kindle — the current king of the field. The TCL Nxtpaper that debuted at CES 2021 showed one possible path: a full-color Due east Ink display.

Either way, the tablet as a product has evolved notably since Barnes & Noble last fielded a competitive model. Two of Amazon'southward main Kindles are water-proof, the iPad has gone for productivity and Samsung's attacking Apple with models that are competitively priced.

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