 Hey guys, it's David with The Verge checking out two new tablets from Barnes & Noble. It's the Nook HD and the Nook HD Plus. They're two totally new tablets unlike anything Barnes & Noble has had before. They're making a big deal out of the technology inside both and the new interface and there's some new stuff in the shop. They're pretty great tablets from what we've seen so far. The first thing you'll notice when you turn the new Nooks on is that there are a bunch of different user profiles you can boot into. Barnes & Noble talked a lot about how families tend to share tablets and so you can actually set up completely separate user accounts. There's one that kind of manages everything but you can set up one for your kid or your spouse or whoever and manage what apps or books or websites they're allowed to visit. It's a pretty cool feature. We've seen something like it on other tablets but this is a very kind of complete core feature in the Android operating system here. They've also redesigned the interface a lot on these new tablets. It's based on Android 4.0 but it looks really nothing like a lot of the Android tablets we've seen. It has a carousel at the top kind of like what Amazon did with all your most recent stuff but it doesn't take up the whole page and you still get icons for apps or bookmarks or what have you and that's a pretty nice compromise I think between all of that stuff. Because it's ice cream sandwich there's also a bunch of different home screens so you can customize it to your heart's content. There's four icons down at the bottom which launch you into your browser or your apps or your library which has all your magazines and books and whatnot in it. But really the biggest changes here are brought on by the displays. The Nook HD has a 7 inch 1440 by 900 display which Barnes & Noble is making a big deal out of it being better than the Kindle Fire or the Nexus 7 or any of the other tablets out there at the same size. And it really does look good. Blacks are really black and whites are really white. It's great for reading, everything's really crisp and we got to watch movies on it too and with the wide display it looks really nice. And on the HD Plus you get a full 1920 by 1080 display and it'll actually output 1080p content onto your TV via HDMI if you want it. But even on the device itself the screen looks really really good. Barnes & Noble's talked a lot about the technology behind the display, how they've laminated the display to the glass and how there's no air gap so it should be less reflective and the resolution's a big deal and all these things are really important on a reading tablet and from what we've seen so far it's pretty successful. The screen is definitely one of the best we've seen on a tablet. And having such a great display makes things like magazines and catalogs look really good and there are a bunch of nifty features they've implemented especially for the bigger screen that works pretty well. You can swipe down with two fingers on any given page and clip a page to basically a scrapbook like magazine clippings. And you can also tap on a hotspot, they're calling it, for products that will jump you straight to a website where you can buy the product from Pottery Barn or whatever catalog you're reading. It's a pretty clever feature and it's a whole new section of the Barnes & Noble store. They've also beefed up the magazines and there are more apps and books and again all these things are designed to be used on the bigger screen and the higher res screen and especially magazines like National Geographic look really great with big images and great colors. The other thing Barnes & Noble talked a lot about was just the overall performance of the devices. There are brand new TI OMAP processors built into both devices and we were using pre-production software so there were some lags and some crashes and some issues but Barnes & Noble promises that will all be worked out by the time these products are ready. And everything else that we saw when it worked, it worked really well, really smoothly even with big images and magazines things seemed to work really fluid. Both new Nook tablets are going to be available at the end of October but they're available for pre-order now. The 7 inch device is going to be $199 for 8 gigs of storage or for $30 more you can get 16 gigs of storage and with such a small gap expect a lot of people to get more storage. The HD Plus, the 9 inch model is going to be available also at the end of October for $269 for 16 gigs of storage or you can get 32 for again only $30 more. It's a small gap and people should just get more storage. They look really great especially with the Kindle Fire out it's going to be a really interesting holiday season and there's certainly a lot of good tablets out there.
 Hey guys, it's David with The Verge checking out two new tablets from Barnes & Noble.
 It's the Nook HD and the Nook HD Plus.
 They're two totally new tablets unlike anything Barnes & Noble has had before.
 They're making a big deal out of the technology inside both and the new interface and there's
 some new stuff in the shop.
 They're pretty great tablets from what we've seen so far.
 The first thing you'll notice when you turn the new Nooks on is that there are a bunch
 of different user profiles you can boot into.
 Barnes & Noble talked a lot about how families tend to share tablets and so you can actually
 set up completely separate user accounts.
 There's one that kind of manages everything but you can set up one for your kid or your
 spouse or whoever and manage what apps or books or websites they're allowed to visit.
 It's a pretty cool feature.
 We've seen something like it on other tablets but this is a very kind of complete core feature
 in the Android operating system here.
 They've also redesigned the interface a lot on these new tablets.
 It's based on Android 4.0 but it looks really nothing like a lot of the Android tablets
 we've seen.
 It has a carousel at the top kind of like what Amazon did with all your most recent
 stuff but it doesn't take up the whole page and you still get icons for apps or bookmarks
 or what have you and that's a pretty nice compromise I think between all of that stuff.
 Because it's ice cream sandwich there's also a bunch of different home screens so you can
 customize it to your heart's content.
 There's four icons down at the bottom which launch you into your browser or your apps
 or your library which has all your magazines and books and whatnot in it.
 But really the biggest changes here are brought on by the displays.
 The Nook HD has a 7 inch 1440 by 900 display which Barnes & Noble is making a big deal
 out of it being better than the Kindle Fire or the Nexus 7 or any of the other tablets
 out there at the same size.
 And it really does look good.
 Blacks are really black and whites are really white.
 It's great for reading, everything's really crisp and we got to watch movies on it too
 and with the wide display it looks really nice.
 And on the HD Plus you get a full 1920 by 1080 display and it'll actually output 1080p
 content onto your TV via HDMI if you want it.
 But even on the device itself the screen looks really really good.
 Barnes & Noble's talked a lot about the technology behind the display, how they've laminated
 the display to the glass and how there's no air gap so it should be less reflective and
 the resolution's a big deal and all these things are really important on a reading tablet
 and from what we've seen so far it's pretty successful.
 The screen is definitely one of the best we've seen on a tablet.
 And having such a great display makes things like magazines and catalogs look really good
 and there are a bunch of nifty features they've implemented especially for the bigger screen
 that works pretty well.
 You can swipe down with two fingers on any given page and clip a page to basically a
 scrapbook like magazine clippings.
 And you can also tap on a hotspot, they're calling it, for products that will jump you
 straight to a website where you can buy the product from Pottery Barn or whatever catalog
 you're reading.
 It's a pretty clever feature and it's a whole new section of the Barnes & Noble store.
 They've also beefed up the magazines and there are more apps and books and again all these
 things are designed to be used on the bigger screen and the higher res screen and especially
 magazines like National Geographic look really great with big images and great colors.
 The other thing Barnes & Noble talked a lot about was just the overall performance of
 the devices.
 There are brand new TI OMAP processors built into both devices and we were using pre-production
 software so there were some lags and some crashes and some issues but Barnes & Noble
 promises that will all be worked out by the time these products are ready.
 And everything else that we saw when it worked, it worked really well, really smoothly even
 with big images and magazines things seemed to work really fluid.
 Both new Nook tablets are going to be available at the end of October but they're available
 for pre-order now.
 The 7 inch device is going to be $199 for 8 gigs of storage or for $30 more you can
 get 16 gigs of storage and with such a small gap expect a lot of people to get more storage.
 The HD Plus, the 9 inch model is going to be available also at the end of October for
 $269 for 16 gigs of storage or you can get 32 for again only $30 more.
 It's a small gap and people should just get more storage.
 They look really great especially with the Kindle Fire out it's going to be a really
 interesting holiday season and there's certainly a lot of good tablets out there.