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According to what you may have read, both of these tablets _will surely kill the iPad_. They won’t, actually, but they’ll spend plenty of time trying to kill each other nonetheless. So which one is best? Neither. Or both. It depends what you want to do with them. Here’s a look at some of the similarities and differences, pros and cons, apples and oranges. ## Hardware The Nook Tablet wins this round. It has a better overall build quality than the Kindle Fire, which is a good thing considering the $50 price difference. It’s got dedicated volume buttons and an N-shaped home button, whereas the Kindle Fire has no volume buttons, a software-based home button and its power button is located on the bottom of the device. After accidentally turning it off for the fifth time in 10 minutes while reading a book, I eventually started just using the Kindle Fire upside down. The Nook Tablet is also a little bit lighter than the Kindle Fire, though not by enough to make a huge difference. (**MORE:** [What’s Inside Amazon’s Kindle Fire: A PlayBook](http://techland.time.com/2011/11/16/whats-inside-amazons-kindle-fire-a-playbook/)) Under the hood, the Nook has double the RAM of the Fire, resulting in a snappier overall experience. It’s also got double the storage and an expansion slot to add more, though of the Nook Tablet’s 16 gigabytes of storage, only one gigabyte is available for content you load onto the device yourself. So that expansion slot immediately comes in handy. As for the screen, the Kindle Fire’s is slightly brighter and reproduces white better, while the Nook Tablet’s is more responsive and has better viewing angles. Battery life will vary depending upon what you’re doing, but the Nook Tablet promises up to 11.5 hours of reading or nine hours of video with Wi-Fi turned off and the device’s power save mode enabled, while Amazon promises up to eight hours of reading or 7.5 hours of video with wireless turned off. In the real world, I found the Nook Tablet to last about seven hours and the Kindle Fire to last about six. That’s with mixed media usage, Wi-Fi turned on, and screen brightness set at about 75 percent. ## Software This one’s kind of a toss-up. I find the Kindle Fire’s overall interface to be more intuitive, while the Nook Tablet’s got some cool integration with reading content and Netflix. For instance, there’s a “Keep Reading” icon on the top of the Nook Tablet’s screen that allows you to jump back into whatever you’ve been reading most recently, and there’s a quick “More” menu that shows popular movies and TV shows from Netflix that you can launch directly. I like the Kindle Fire’s web browser because it has tabs, though the Nook Tablet’s browser is faster overall—even despite Amazon’s “Silk” technology that offloads some of the heavy lifting to Amazon’s own servers. If you don’t care about tabs, the Nook Tablet’s browser has the edge. _article continues on next page…_ nextpageBoth tablets’ built-in e-mail apps are serviceable but nothing special. Neither handles corporate mail but they each have a straightforward interface and can handle multiple standard mail accounts from the likes of Gmail, Yahoo, Microsoft and others. As far as the on-screen keyboards go, the Kindle Fire’s features a row of special characters at the top and you can type numbers by holding down certain keys, which makes entering complex text relatively easy—your password is a mixture of letters, numbers and symbols, right? The Nook Tablet’s keyboard, however, features better spacing between the keys, which makes entering simple text much easier. ## Content Amazon takes the cake here, provided you want to be able to do stuff other than read books. When you unbox the Kindle Fire for the first time, your Amazon account is already preloaded onto the device and any books, music, TV shows, movies or apps you’ve purchased in the past are sitting there on the various shelves waiting to be streamed or downloaded. It’s one of the best out-of-the-box experiences of any consumer electronics product in recent memory. Aside from being able to purchase digital entertainment content directly, the Kindle Fire’s app store has a wider selection of apps and offers a free app each day. By comparison, the Nook Tablet’s app store features a much more tightly curated selection of apps, and you’ll have to load your music and videos onto the device yourself or use one of several streaming apps. The Nook Tablet, however, makes for a better overall reading experience—especially for magazines and children’s books. Certain children’s books can be read aloud with the “Read To Me” feature, many feature interactive activities and you can even use the Nook Tablet’s microphone to record yourself reading your kids’ favorite books. So basically the Nook Tablet wins for straight-up reading, but the Kindle Fire trounces it soundly when it comes to just about any other type of content. ## Overall The advantages of one tablet over the other will vary based on your individual needs: The Kindle Fire is $50 cheaper, but the Nook Tablet’s good for people new to tablets since you can head over to any Barnes & Noble store for help. And as mentioned above, the extra $50 gets you snappier performance, better build quality, and slightly longer battery life as well. The software running on both devices is a toss-up: The Kindle Fire’s overall interface is extremely intuitive and charming, while the Nook Tablet’s wins points for integrating various media features and overall responsiveness. As for content, the Kindle Fire does an amazing job of gathering all your intangible Amazon purchases in one place and making it easy to add to your collection. If you’re looking for an inexpensive tablet with great overall content integration, the Kindle Fire is hard to pass up—especially given its $199 price tag. The Nook Tablet, on the other hand, provides the best overall experience for avid readers, magazine lovers and people with young children. And finally, neither of these tablets are going to kill the iPad. If you’ve got your heart set on an iPad and you’re wondering whether you can get the same or better experience in a 7-inch tablet for $250 to $300 less, it’s just not possible right now. What you do get with either of these 7-inch tablets, though, is a relatively inexpensive, well-designed and portable device good for casual consumption of various media. **MORE:** [Nook Tablet vs. Kindle Fire: A Guide to Decide](http://techland.time.com/2011/11/09/nook-tablet-vs-kindle-fire-a-guide-to-decide/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7238500/two-minute-video-nook-tablet-or-kindle-fire/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7238500/two-minute-video-nook-tablet-or-kindle-fire/"},"headline":"Two-Minute Video: Nook Tablet or Kindle Fire?","datePublished":"2011-11-21T09:55:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T10:50:19.237Z","description":"The 7-inch tablet market just got a whole lot more interesting, with the newly-released $199 Kindle Fire and the $249 Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet....","url":"https://time.com/archive/7238500/two-minute-video-nook-tablet-or-kindle-fire/","keywords":["Tech","Amazon"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt085330da9633c579/6998bd56f1b0824cc86f04f6/tablets600.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt085330da9633c579/6998bd56f1b0824cc86f04f6/tablets600.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"tablets600","caption":"","creditText":"Amazon : Barnes & Noble","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7238500/two-minute-video-nook-tablet-or-kindle-fire/","name":"Two-Minute Video: Nook Tablet or Kindle Fire?"}}]}] ```