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what's up prize fight fans I'm Brian Tania we have a battle for the title of the best seven-inch screen tablet it's a prizefight watch out between the Amazon Kindle Fire and the Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet our judges for this fight are David Carr annoy Eric shake-and-bake Franklin and the ladies man Bryan Tom will take all three judges blind scores and average them out to the nearest tenth of a point the final prize fight score will be an average of all rounds using the same decimal system let's throw some bows round one is design neither of these seven-inch screen tablets is going to wow you especially with Amazon showing off arguably the most generic tablet design we've ever seen it's heavy for its size but it's not ugly just forgettable now the note tablet definitely pays attention to style with its silver border and unique design details like a flap for its SD card slot and a corner that you can accessorize which I personally don't care about now it's the slicker of the two and the note tablet takes this round with the four and the Kindle Fire it gets a three next rounds controls and user interface the Kindle Fire decided that having the fewest buttons possible was a good idea but having no physical volume buttons and an awkwardly placed power button on the bottom center it just stinks now makes up for it with its own custom Android interface that shines in its simplicity and the software update makes the carousel more customizable now the Nook Tablet has a power and volume buttons in the right place that we appreciate there's a home button that should make things simple but their UI brings up pop-up menus tasks bars and drop-down menus that they don't even need to have it's not a super complex UI and it won't be confusing but the less is more rule should have been followed here the Kindle Fire strikes back with a 3.7 and the note tablet gets a 3.3 so after averaging two rounds the Nook leads by three tenths of a point round threes features the kindle doesn't really come with many hardware features it has eight gigs of storage space with no expandability and it's depending on its cloud service to pick up the slack if you're connected to the Internet it also has 256 Meg's of RAM but its biggest feature is for Amazon Prime members will have access to free media content now the Nook Tablet is loaded with 16 gigs of storage space but the trick is that most of it is safe for purchases from the Barnes & Noble store and apps while only one gig is for the user to put whatever he or she wants on it now the expandable memory card slot supports up to 32 gigs of storage and you'll probably end up using it plus it doubles the RAM of the fire the note gets a three point seven and the fire gets a three point three next round is web browsing to multimedia the Kindle Fire touted its silk browser for its predictive page rendering it's a solid browser but I still really haven't been able to feel two major benefits I like how its controls are placed on the bottom and it added full screen mode with the latest update where the Kindle Fire just kills it is with its Amazon ecosystem for media content that's integrated into the device for direct purchases of music movies and TV shows and the multimedia apps it supports like Netflix Pandora and many more now the note tablet holds its own when it comes to its web browser even though browsing on any 7-inch device still feels pretty cramped but aside from books and periodicals the note tablet doesn't have an integrated multimedia ecosystem for you to purchase content you can use apps like hulu and netflix to watch movies but you'll have to manually load any music movies or TV shows of your own onto the device the Kindle Fire takes this round with a 4.3 and the note tablet gets a 3.7 so after averaging four rounds the Nook still leads by just a hair round five is performance you'll have a hard time noticing any major differences in responsiveness or load speed but the biggest difference here is battery life now if we're just talking video the Kindle Fire edged out the note by 12 minutes with a total running time of 6 hours and 42 minutes of juice but when it comes to other activities the note tablet bests the fire by over three hours and that's a pretty significant difference the note gets a three point seven and the fire gets a three this one's gonna come down to who throws the last punch the final round that decides it all is value if someone asked you what's the best bang for the buck in the tablet market you'd probably say the Kindle Fire and we'd have to agree it's $1.99 price point makes it a compelling value with its ease of use and especially for people who are already part of the Amazon ecosystem now the note tablet is a great device with plenty of app support and at 2:49 it's really worth that price but it's absence of a media ecosystem to support a device that is really made for media consumption is what hurts it the most in the final round the Kindle Fire gets a 4.7 and the nuke tablet gets a 3.7 so lets average out all six rounds and in a battle where the note jumped out early the Kindle Fire was able to claw back into the fight and after six hard-fought rounds we end up tied at three point seven points a piece but you know there can only be one winner so let's take this to the hundreds of a point and in another epic battle the note tablet comes out on top three point six eight to three point six seven and is your prize bite winner i'm brian tom thanks for watching we'll catch you guys next time another prize five whoo what's that you