Barnes & Noble nook Tablet

usability

design, price

67% of the reviews on Amazon.co.uk give this product a positive rating.

usability, portability, price, performance, screen

reliability, camera, GPS navigation

79% of the reviews on Amazon.com give this product a positive rating.

Bright, crisp screen ; Light and portable ; Big library of titles

Touchscreen lag ; No microSD ; Questionable build quality

An ereader that competes with Amazon's Kindle Paperwhite on design and price, if not on quality. The decent online library will keep you stacked with titles while the improved screen and backlight make for comfortable reading marathons.

Lightweight ; Impressive 9-inch HD screen ; Google Play access

Poor custom UI ; Ugly design ; Sub-standard Nook Shop

With the Nook HD, US bookstore giant Barnes & Noble entered the wide-open 7-inch tablet market, but with the 9-inch Nook HD+ it faces a single and much more daunting foe.

Stylish, well priced, fantastic screen, access to Google Play, good store and app/book/video selection, well designed UI, good battery life

Store sometimes more expensive than Amazon, quite heavy,

There is the feeling when you're using the Nook that it's really not all that fast, at least in terms of raw processing power. Sometimes when performing fairly simple tasks we'd find the graphical transitions would stutter and lag. Strangely, this...

Great high-resolution display, weight, microSD card allows expansion, content makes the most of the hardware, movie options, supports UltraViolet and Adobe DRM

App selection could be better, no music offering, locked-down hardware means it's tricky to add your own apps, case vibration when volume turned up, shop results could be returned bettter

The Nook HD is a powerful tablet that's been thoughtfully customised to offer a great user experience. Barnes & Noble has tweaked the user interface to make it simple and approachable. There's plenty of content on offer and the navigation options...

Sharp HD screen; Google Play support; Clean OS with profile options; Decent battery life

No cameras; Screen could be brighter; Some little glitches

Crisp seven-inch display; Friendly interface with profiles; Light and portable; Large book and magazine catalogue

No Google Play access; Proprietary charger; Occasional stutter

Excellent screen, fast processor, good online media store,expandable memory

No Google Play, no camera

The Nook has tried to make a niche for itself by becoming the bestmagazine ereader there is. It may well have succeeded, but thatwon't be enough to get it a place at the top table with Android andApple tablets. There's no Google Play, or a camera, but...

High-quality build ; Broad app support for reading books and comics ; In-store support

Somewhat grainy screen ; Slow performance in non-reading apps

Barnes & Noble's 10-inch Nook-branded Lenovo tablet is a flexible reading device, but don't try to play games or do schoolwork on it.

In-store service and support from Barnes & Noble. Good size for comics. Google Play access. Plenty of storage.

Slow performance. Poor cameras.

Cheap tablets are not going to perform well. We need to keep emphasizing that: You get what you pay for. If you want a really smooth-performing 10-inch tablet, get our Editor's Choice, the entry-level $329 Apple iPad. (There aren't any great 10-inch...