New Nook color announced for November. Looks good. It actually looks like (by far) the best tablet after the iPad. 7" IPS LCD with 8GB of memory and WiFi for $250. That price is going to potentially rock other tablet manufacturers, depending on the rest of the software bundle.

It's running Android, but I've only seen the B&N-created book/extras UI right now. Maybe there's no access to any sort of Android UI.

So far the book buying and reading application looks like it's received a very nice make-over. A lot has been stolen from Apple and other iPad/Pod apps here.



Update... Looks like it's going to support apps. At least for developers who want to write for it using their SDK. I suspect it wouldn't take a great deal to port over a standard Android app to run within Nook's framework. Hopefully B&N has more scrutiny over what apps look like compared to Google and Apple - most of the apps for Android and iPhone look like crap.

This could really upset other 7" tablets. B&N has a much better name than most of the other competitors. Especially since it's going to be sold at B&N, Walmart, Best Buy and a couple of other smaller places.