
Kindle Fire and the Nook Tablet are similar in many ways. They both
have 7-inch displays with resolutions of 1024 pixels by 600 pixels, and they
both run on heavily customized versions of Android OS from Google (which means
that it doesn’t look anything like the stock Android you might be used to). The
Kindle Fire is slightly slimmer than the Nook Tablet (Fire 0.45 inches, Nook
Tablet 0.48 inches). The Nook Tablet does weigh 5 ounces less than the Fire.
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inside though, Barnes & Noble has packed in more performance into its Nook
Tablet than Amazon did with the Fire. The Nook Tablet packs 1GB or RAM, double
the amount found on the Fire (512MB), as well as 16GB of on-board storage,
again--double of what’s found on the 8GB Kindle Fire. There’s also a MicroSD
card slot on the Nook Tablet, notably missing from the Fire, so you can expand
the capacity of your Nook with cards up to 32GB.