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Shopper's Market: Tablet Wars

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    Amazon's Kindle Fire vs. Barnes and Noble's Nook

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This week were taken a look at the Amazon Kindle fire.

And Barnes and Noble's -- tablet starting with the Kindle fire at a cost of 199.

Dollars.

Personal tech columnist at the Wall Street Journal Walt Mossberg says it won't replace some of your laptop functions like an -- that.

The Kindle fire is not back.

But if your interest -- in books in color.

In magazines and color newspapers in.

And then especially in a TV shows and movies and music which were not something you did -- -- old fashioned Kindle.

This brings all that to the four plus a smattering of apps.

My expert says the -- tablet from Barnes & Noble has the edge when it.

It's the second generation of the -- -- e-book reader.

You can actually record yourself reading -- both your child -- animations.

Amazon on the Kindle fire really the only thing they do.

With kids books is kind of make the text bigger.

Which isn't that big -- deal that -- tablet retails for 249.

Dollars and while ultimate tablet and Kindle fire are much cheaper than Apple's iPad two.

-- -- The iPad it to in my opinion remains the class of the fields.

And you should CNN in the market share nobody else has really been able to get any traction these guys are going in a different direction.

Both on price and -- functionality and design.

Both the Barnes & Noble -- and the Kindle fire come with -- five capabilities.

But for a couple dozen extra bucks the Kindle can provide you with the three G connection for the life of the device.

In New York Brenda Buttner Fox News.