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hey everyone and welcome to another review by Jim's review room just want to say thank you to all the supporters out there subscribers and all those likes that you've been providing that my channel slowly growing slowly but surely but I do appreciate all the effort and support that you've been providing to me so we'll get right into it right now today we'll be looking at the Nook HD Plus by Barnes & Noble now there's some minor differences between the HD version and the HD plus version and hopefully with some of these specifications and explanations of each one it may help you decide in what you may purchase in the future now the Nook HD Plus only comes in the 9 inch form factor which I have here and it weighs in at 18 ounces now the regular nuke HD comes in at 7 inches and it weighs a little bit under pound at about 11 ounces so let's take a tour of the exterior so what we have here is your home button and here below that is the charging port that connects to a USB wall charger if you go back over to the top here you have the sleep button which if you just tap once or go to sleep and tap it again awaken itself you can say and if you hold down that button actually powers down in powers up your unit as well on top is the three-and-a-half millimeter headphone port and the volume buttons are found close by as well now lastly and very importantly you can increase the amount of space on your nook with this micro SD slot as well now surprisingly I like the feel the nook it feels actually way better than the iPad itself and the back of the look there's this plastic that I want to say has a thin layer of silicone or rubber or I don't know what's going on there but it's actually a kind of a sticky friction kind of material if I can explain it if you can feel secure in my hand that it doesn't feel like it wants a slip because of its backing now quickly comparing that to the popular iPad here the iPad has this literally cold or impersonal feel with its aluminum back case and the edge to edge class now this may just be personal preference but the Nook also feels that's a little bit more sophisticated to hold as well so let's get deeper into this review here the main difference is price at the time of this review the HD is $129 in the HD plus which I'm reviewing today is 149 the next important form factor is the resolution and battery performance to put this in simplistic resolution is measured or better measured I'm sorry on the e-readers and tablets by pixels per inch now the reason why the iPad is so popular with what they call their Retina display was because Apple was able to squeeze in so many pixels into one square inch of the screen so let me say this the iPad has 264 pixels per inch the HD plus which I have here has 256 per inch and the Nook HD has 2 243 so when comparing the $300 iPad with a nick HD plus as an e-reader the letters and the words are on the same or maybe similar level where each letter is clean crisp and clear so the difference in pixels per inch is very minimal or minimal enough to justify not spending more than what you have to if your main purchase is for an e-reader now for gaming it appears on par I tried popular games like candy crush and it performed as normal I tried more faster intense paced games I don't like tetris or so I didn't notice any hiccups as well and the most important thing here I believe this is where it really shines is the video now I play a clip here and you can see there's such a difference in contrast completely shocked that the Nook was much better in color contrast and vibrancy now that's not bad for something about 50% cheaper than a competitor so moving on here the battery itself lasts about 10 hours for reading in 9 hours for a video for both the HD and the HD plus as well charging from a dead battery to full takes approximately 4 to 5 hours now one of the items I really dislike that I that I want to notate was I couldn't charge the Nook from my computer via the USB wire so the next big question is is it easy to use especially for those who never had a tablet before or nonetheless never had an e-reader or Nook let me see this it's very easy and simple to use so don't be afraid of it you mainly stay in your home page which will have all your books and magazines that you've bought so far now customizing this page is easy as well if you need to all you do is just hold down an icon and drag it to the area where they call the table tap as you can see here now on the very bottom of the homepage you have your main sub menus as well the first one is your library which will house all the items that you have and your nook itself the next button is the app button which houses all of your apps that you have so far downloaded there's of course your Reb web browser and the email function as well - of course surf the internet and check your email where we have Wi-Fi and lastly is the shop button from Barnes & Noble here you can look up the books and magazines etc that you want to consider purchasing and you can do a free trial as well and I believe on almost every item on there and if you don't want to purchase it you can always cancel as indicated I mean up before you're actually charged and if you're ever lost you can always press the home button located on the bottom of the Nook and they'll take you right back to the home page it's easy for someone to pick up and start now with the Nook HD in the HD plus models as of May 2013 you'll now have access to Google Play which is Google's version of the App Store it's great to have this feature since you're not limited to just Barnes and Nobles interface not only with downloadable books games but also music and movies for purchase as well another Pro that is definitely worth mentioning is the Nook is not limited to just Barnes & Noble books you can purchase books from a wide variety of vendors so if your price shopping you do have options now unlike the Kindle Fire they can fire you're just limited to Amazon ebooks only for purchase now there's two additional items I wanted to mention the first one was with many tablets that has this glass or glossy screen it does create a glare when you are in direct sunlight or in very very bright areas so if you bring in to the beach or the park let's say and you're sitting under direct sunlight or in a very bright area it does make the screen very difficult to see so that is someone of select nuisance but I get most tablets with this kind of glass surface you'll have that problem the last time I want to mention although it's not detrimental but I think it's not worthy it doesn't come with a camera so you can't Skype or web chat or take pictures so that's something to throw out there for you as well and just to wrap things up with my summary so the iPad in fact feel a bit more refined and smoother to operate but overall the nuke does what I believe the average consumer is looking for the nook HD the HD plus are a great alternative for those who were intending just and use it for the basics such as reading web surfing email YouTube videos movies etc and don't let apples marketing make you believe the video and discrete is better on the iPad you saw my test and you see my review and the Nook is as good or actually was better than the side-by-side video comparison so with all that being said and all of its features this is a great alternative to a full-blown tablet and it's definitely cheaper than most of the full-blown tablets out there it's definitely worth a buy for in this kind of market so I hope you enjoyed this review for the Nook HD plus from Barnes & Noble now it did take a bit of time to produce this video and I hope to show you support please like this video and share it and if you can subscribe to my channel as well for future alerts to new products so this is Jimmy from Jim's review room take care everyone bye-bye you