Barnes and Noble has just slashed the price of their Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 NOOK 8 tablet by $100 and can now be purchased for $299. The bookseller is offering free online shipping or same day delivery if you live in Manhattan.
When this tablet first came out last year it retailed for $400, so a $100 discount is very solid. This device features an 8 inch Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1536 x 2048 pixels with 320 PPI.
Underneath the hood is a Octacore processor featuring a Quad-core 1.9 GHz & quad-core 1.3 GHz. There will be 3G of RAM, 32 GB of internal storage and an SD card that supports up to 128 GB of extra memory. You will be able to take pictures via the rear facing 8 MP camera or employ the front-facing 2 MP camera for video conferencing.
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.