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Amazon has officially announced the release of the Kindle Fire, a color ebook reader that doubles as a tablet PC. Barnes and Noble released their Nook Color, a similar device, last holiday season. It makes sense to compare these two devices as they are similar in price. But what about other features? Let's compare the Kindle Fire vs Nook Color and find the differences.

The Nook Color Main Features

7" ISP Color Touch ScreenWeb browsing- Customized Android, email program8GB memory, with expandable SD card slot729 Apps available from B and N store8 hour battery life8.1″ x 5″ x.48"Can play video, music, other multimedia

Kindle Fire Main Features

7" ISP Color Touch ScreenWeb browsing capabilities- Amazon Silk browser8 GB memory with CS2 Cloud backup/expanded storage16,638 Apps available from Amazon.com8 hour battery life7.5″ x 4.7″ x.45″Can play video, music, other multimedia

Taking a look at the main features of the Kindle Fire and Nook Color, one sees that there are a few glaring differences. One can see that Barnes and Noble offers 729 apps versus 16,638 apps at Amazon. This reflects the main difference between the two devices, in the way that Amazon just offers more content than Barnes and Noble.

Barnes and Noble has made it clear from the beginning that the Nook Color is a "color ebook reader" and they want to focus on the reading with their device. There has been customer complaints that it is slow to respond with certain things such as watching videos online. Again, it's a color ebook reader. It excels with reading magazines and other color publications.

Amazon aims to take a slightly different approach with the Kindle Fire. They advertise the device as more of a tablet PC than just a color ebook reader. This is evident with the extensive discussion about the new "Silk" web browser, according to Amazon, is a much faster mobile web browsing experience that uses Cloud technology to aid in web page load time.

Cloud Storage vs On Device Storage

Another big difference between the Fire and Nook Color is the way content is stored on the device, or off the device. Nook Color offers 8 GB of on-device storage out of the box, with the ability to expand storage up to 32 GB with an SD card. The Fire is different with 8 GB on-device storage out of the box, with unlimited use of the Amazon EC2 Cloud to backup and store as many files as the user needs or wants.

When comparing the Kindle Fire vs Nook Color, one can see there are many differences despite looking like very similar devices at first glance. Amazon's device could be seen as more a Tablet PC than Barnes and Noble's device which is a self declared color ebook reader.

So Which Is The Better Device?

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