Apple iPad Mini vs Kindle Fire HD 8.9 vs Nook HD: specs showdown

The small tablet war is heading to new territories now. From 7-inch tabs we have many devices with slightly larger displays. Apple has iPad Mini and eReader giants like Amazon and Barnes & Noble respectively tout Kindle Fire HD and Nook HD+ with displays larger than seven. Here we go ahead to compare these three products to let you pick up the best product for eReading, movie watching, web surfing and more.Apple's new small tablet runs on iOS 6. Compared to it both Kindle Fire HD and Nook HD+ are up with tailored Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Yes, that means you can run iTunes app store on iPad Mini and Play Store on Kindle Fire HD and Nook HD+ for different ipad case with keyboard.Needless to say, iPad wins when it comes to apps. Thanks to app store, iPad is the leader in number of apps. Amazon has designed too many specialized apps for multiple goals like eReading and similar purposes. B&N has somehow failed in it and so that Nook HD+ is the loser in availability of apps for diverse purposes.
The Apple mini tablet mounts a 7.9-in LED-backlit IPS LCD display with a resolution of 768 x 1024 pixels at a meager 162-ppi. The device drops the much-wanted Retina display and has lost a significant amount of sheen due to this. Kindle Fire HD is a bit larger with an 8.9-inch high definition display. It is an IPS TFT capacitive touchscreen that sports a better screen resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels at 254-ppi. The Nook HD+ is almost identical to Fire HD, but is rather smarter with a 9-inch IPS LCD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1280 pixels at 256-ppi.Going by innards, the Mini comes with 1GHz dual core Cortex-A9 CPU with Apple's new A5 chip inside. Its performance is boosted by a PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU and 512MB RAM. china cheap mobile supplier can find 16GB, 32GB and 64GB variants of this machine. Onboard the new Kindle Fire HD, Amazon has integrated a 1.5GHz Cortex-A9 CPU with TI OMAP 4470 chip and 1GB of RAM. The device has two – 16GB and 32GB – memory versions. Nook HD+ is powered by the same setup, but it comes in 16GB only.
One important use of a small tablet is data surfing. That is why it must have a better and reliable connectivity options. Every tablet in question here comes with nice connectivity option. When it comes to iPad Mini, which comes in both cellular and Wi-Fi combo, you can see options like GPRS, EDGE, DC-HSDPA, HSDPA, HSUPA and 4G LTE for Wi-Fi/4G model only and Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, dual-band, Bluetooth 4.0 and USB 2.0. The device also shows off Apple's new 8-pin Lightning dock port.Amazon sells Kindle Fire HD with Wi-Fi only. It doesn't have a cellular model. Yet, different from its precursor, the tablet touts Bluetooth with A2DP as well as USB 2.0. The Nook HD+ offers Wi-Fi 802.11 b, g, n, USB 2.0 and HDMI for connectivity. It is easy to access high speed internet on all these machines.