Barnes & Noble is having an early sale for Father’s Day, which occurs on June 15th. The bookseller has discounted their NOOK 9 Lenovo tablet by $20, making it cost only $129.99 for both the stock model and the new Frost Blue variant. The tablet deals are available online on the Barnes and Noble e-commerce website and also in over 600 stores in the United States. They are also offering 30 percent savings on cases for the NOOK 9 tablet too.
The Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet 9 features a 9-inch IPS LCD with a 1340 x 800 and 173 PPI resolution. It features a 5:3 aspect ratio and a brightness of approximately 400 nits. Being an LCD tablet, it features brightness controls that can be adjusted using slider bars. Being an LCD tablet, it features brightness controls that can be adjusted using slider bars. It features an anti-fingerprint touchscreen display and is TÜV Rheinland-certified for low blue light emissions. I like the Grayscale Reading mode for B&N and the Chromatic Reading mode for color content.
Underneath the hood is a Mediatek MT6769V/CU Helio G80 Octa-core (2×2.0 GHz Cortex-A75 & 6×1.8 GHz Cortex-A55) processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64 GB of internal storage. If you need more space, an SD card can hold up to 128 GB of data. The device features dual-band Wi-Fi, USB-C, a headphone/mic combo, dual stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos, and Bluetooth 5.1 for wireless headphones or earbuds. It is powered by a 5,100 mAh battery, which should be suitable for a few days of nonstop use. There are dual cameras: the front snapper is 2MP, and the rear is 8MP. The Tablet 9 features the Google Android 13 operating system and offers full access to the Google Play Store, featuring both free and paid apps.
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.