Gadgetory

it's monday november seventh 2011 I'm Wilson Tang on cnn.com and it's time to get loaded amazon shook up the tablet market with the announcement of the kindle fire at the breakthrough price of two hundred dollars it left many people wondering what other android tablet makers would do especially barnes and noble with its nook this morning the bookseller has taken on Amazon with the Nook Tablet on paper the nuke tablet and kindle fire stack up well they both have 7 inch color touch screens 1 gigahertz dual-core CPUs custom versions of Android 8 hours of battery life Wi-Fi an adobe flash neither have a camera bluetooth or 3g though but the note tablet will come in at two hundred and fifty dollars the extra fifty dollars will get you however 16 gigabytes of storage plus a microSD slot for more compared to just eight gigs and no expansion on the fire that may make a big difference when you don't have Wi-Fi and can't stream movies the note tablet is expected to ship on november seventeenth but pre-orders start today barnes and noble also took the time to refresh the rest of the note line of e-readers first the note color will remain on the market at just a hundred ninety nine dollars with the same specs as last year the company also dropped the price of its simple touch e ink reader to just ninety nine dollars which matches the price of the ad-supported kindle touch with special offers the bookseller also improved battery life and performance all around the new Simple Touch is available today finally the nook tablet and color will get additional app support from an improved PDF reader more titles on Nook newsstand apps from Netflix Hulu and voodoo with Pandora mug and spotify to come soon in more Android news if you're wondering whether that HTC smartphone will ever get the new android 4.3 and which update then wonder no more the taiwanese company has offered a preliminary list on its Facebook page with the devices that will get the new software they include the new HTC vivid sensation sensation XL and XE and the resound owners of the evo 3d evo design 4g and amaze 4g will have to wait depending on their carrier HTC says they will continue evaluate older Android phones to see if they can handle new software all this is good news for android phone owners who have to contend with lagging updates from the carriers and manufacturers all the focus on mobile products is a sign of things to come barclay capital has announced in a report that it will be slashing its global pc growth forecast for the fourth quarter of this year from 7.2 percent to just 4.3 percent the investment bank sites continued weakness in the market and a worldwide shortage of hard drive disk caused by the floods in Thailand the report also lowers its forecast through next year with growth dropping from 4.4 to three-point-four percent it may be time to look at SSD drives continuing on the bad news best buy has announced a number of changes after several disappointing quarters first best buy will buy out carphone warehouse's interest in the company's u.s. and Canadian best buy mobile businesses also across the pond best buy has decided to shut down all of its 11 big-box stores that operates to the UK by the end of the year the stores have proven to be a drain on the company the changes are meant to show up the company's financials but over the last 12 months the company's stock has fallen thirty-nine percent those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson tang for CNN com and you've just been loaded