It looks like Barnes & Noble’s tablet production business lives to see another day, thanks to Samsung, which will adopt the Nook-specific ecosystem and integrate it into a co-branded Galaxy Tab 4 Nook.
That punchy Nvidia Tegra 4-powered Nook slate never went beyond the rumor phase, substantiating once more Barnes & Noble’s fall from grace and most of all, the company’s lack of interest in driving forward with costly Android gadget manufacturing.
But maybe there’s still a way to make waves in the tablet décor for the largest retail bookseller stateside. An inexpensive, foolproof way to give Amazon, Google, Samsung or Asus a run for their money: a partnership with one of the “enemies”.
Namely, Samsung. Why would the rulers of the Android realm want to lend a hand to a rival? Well, for one thing, B&N isn’t much of a rival at the moment. At the same time, imagine how pricey buying the support of a retailer force of nature like the Nook creators would be in a different context. So you see, it’s really the textbook definition of a win-win situation.
The Galaxy Tab 4 Nook should thus help both partners in the short term, but it remains to be seen how the relationship will evolve in the long run. It clearly depends on the newly unveiled gizmo’s box-office form, which in turn relies heavily on the one detail Samsung and Barnes & Noble are too shy to reveal – pricing.
Since the Tab 4 Nook is essentially a standard Tab 4 7.0 with a different Android skin on the software side of things and access to B&N’s store rather than Google Play, it’s plausible the two will cost the same $200 in an 8 GB Wi-Fi-only flavor starting early August.
Then again, the Nook HD+ starts at a measly $179 nowadays, and offers extra screen real estate (9 inches), superior resolution (1,920 x 1,080 pixels), a more frugal dual-core processor and, as a consequence, longer battery life.
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That punchy Nvidia Tegra 4-powered Nook slate never went beyond the rumor phase, substantiating once more Barnes & Noble’s fall from grace and most of all, the company’s lack of interest in driving forward with costly Android gadget manufacturing.
But maybe there’s still a way to make waves in the tablet décor for the largest retail bookseller stateside. An inexpensive, foolproof way to give Amazon, Google, Samsung or Asus a run for their money: a partnership with one of the “enemies”.
Namely, Samsung. Why would the rulers of the Android realm want to lend a hand to a rival? Well, for one thing, B&N isn’t much of a rival at the moment. At the same time, imagine how pricey buying the support of a retailer force of nature like the Nook creators would be in a different context. So you see, it’s really the textbook definition of a win-win situation.
The Galaxy Tab 4 Nook should thus help both partners in the short term, but it remains to be seen how the relationship will evolve in the long run. It clearly depends on the newly unveiled gizmo’s box-office form, which in turn relies heavily on the one detail Samsung and Barnes & Noble are too shy to reveal – pricing.
Since the Tab 4 Nook is essentially a standard Tab 4 7.0 with a different Android skin on the software side of things and access to B&N’s store rather than Google Play, it’s plausible the two will cost the same $200 in an 8 GB Wi-Fi-only flavor starting early August.
Then again, the Nook HD+ starts at a measly $179 nowadays, and offers extra screen real estate (9 inches), superior resolution (1,920 x 1,080 pixels), a more frugal dual-core processor and, as a consequence, longer battery life.
So yeah, I guess you’ll need to do better than $200 for the 7-inch, 1,280 x 800 pix res-sporting, 1.5 GB RAM-packing Galaxy Tab 4 Nook. A’ight, Samsung, B&N?
Source: Business Wire
Source: Business Wire
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