Barnes & Noble’s Nook receives a new tablet built by Lenovo

For years, news of the discontinued Barnes & Noble’s Nook line of e-readers and Android tablets has appeared again and again, but somehowthread markthat-he could defy his own death with new hardware that brings him back from the brink of extinction. Today that comes in the form of a new 10-inch Nook tablet courtesy of Lenovo.

There were good reasons to repeatedly believe that Barnes & Noble discontinued its Nook line, including the mere fact that its E-ink-based devices and more capable tablets were sold out online and were very hard to find in stores until late. But Susan McCulloch, chief operating officer for Barnes & Noble’s Nook operations, said The Verge yesterday that the depleted stock is actually the result of strong demand and sales from its e-readers, as a result of everyone being locked up at home during the pandemic.

This will soon change for devoted Nook users, as a new 10-inch Nook tablet, designed with Lenovo, with a full metal body and an “85% screen to body ratio, will be available in early April. ”. Powered by an octa-core processor “with a main frequency of up to 2.3 GHz”, the new Nook actually has a 10.1-inch HD IPS touch screen, while 32GB of built-in storage can be expanded with a microSD card. It is promised that the battery life will be up to “10 hours of web browsing ”, which means that instead of streaming videos, you won’t receive as much battery life between charges. The new Nook also comes with Bluetooth connectivity, an FM radio and front and rear cameras, so it can be used for more than just a media consumer device.

Although it has a custom Barnes & Noble front end running on Android, the new Nook still has access to the Google Play Store. Thus, users can choose to either stay with obtaining their content from the Barnes & Noble application or download books from other vendors, such as Amazon or Rakuten, through the Kindle and Kobo apps. Priced at $ 130, the new Nook sounds like another Android tablet at good prices and largely capable, but more importantly, put the Nook brand back on the life support for at least a few more years.