Samsung and bookstore introduce ‘reading tablet’ Galaxy Tab 4 Nook

Samsung and the American bookstore Barnes & Noble have jointly presented a tablet. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook is a variant of the existing 7 “tablet Galaxy Tab 4, but has software from the bookstore.

For example, there are three apps from Barnes & Noble on the tablet and a button is prominently displayed at the bottom left to continue reading. The bookstore will sell the tablet for $179, roughly the same price Samsung is asking for the regular Tab 4 7″.

The Nook tablet from Samsung has a 7″ LCD with a resolution of 1280×800 pixels and runs on Android 4.4 with a skin from Samsung, which has been adapted for this Nook tablet. The soc is a Snapdragon 400, with four Cortex A7 processor cores and an Adreno 305 GPU.

The ‘reading tablet’ will mainly have to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Amazon’s cheapest option is slightly cheaper, but the Galaxy Tab 4 Nook has Google services on board, giving users a choice of many more Android apps than on the Kindle Fire.

Barnes & Noble made its own tablets until last year, but stopped because the bookstore suffered a loss.