Posted on 04/15/2011 8:04:19 PM PDT by Gamecock
In a month or two you won’t need to hack it. They’re turning it into a tablet.
So I put off buying an ereader, until I discovered that the nook color could be turned into a Android tablet.
Went to the local Barnes and Noble, brought one home and 50 minutes later I had a Wi-Fi Android. It took 40 minutes because I watched this video a couple of times before rooting.
Anyway, I now have a functioning Android tablet for 1/2 the price of others. It steams videos just fine, downloads apps form the Android Market in the blink of an eye. The process went so smoothly I rooted my daughter's nook too.
BTW, B&N is reportedly about to offer an update to it's current OS that will allow more Android apps to work on the nook.
Mega-BUMP!
This thread’s title stopped me cold: had no idea what the Hell it was about.
I don’t even own a cell phone — isn’t a tablet made of aspirin?
The Nook Color is an interesting (affordable) device. You and your daughter both like it?
I was in line at Staples a few months ago, hmm, maybe it was late last year, a geek in line behind me talked my ear off about this hack.
Love it!
I was resisting getting an e-reader, but being able to root the nook made a convert out of me!
Over the years, I’ve owned many scientific calculators - TI-59, HP-28C, HP-28S, HP-48SX, etc.. Just last year my HP-49G+ gave up the ghost, after 15 years of service, so I bought an HP-50g.
I have to say I was amazed at how little progress had been made in scientific calculators. I seriously considered bying a small netbook, figuring I might do better running Octave and R.
When Octave and R have been ported to the Android OS, a small tablet with a good display could be a solid replacement.
Thanks. I’ll look it over when it gets to Staples in May.
I did this about 3 months ago. Everything works OK (except for the USB debug bridge). Even downloaded and installed the Amazon App Store. Wish I would have bought one when it was on sale at Best Buy for $199
Thank you for posting. I just rooted my Android phone this week. I wish I’d done it sooner. Took an hour or two. Cyanogen Mod 7.
Have you had any issues with the Android phone apps scaling to the bigger screen?
I have a B&W Nook for books and love it, but would like a tablet for its own sake.
First and foremost, it is a very solid ereader. I keep mine stock, and use a Nooter for SD to run plain android when I want to, or Honeycomb SDK or Gingerbread from Cyanogen. Keeping them on cards lets me enjoy in store reading at B&N as well as all the advantages of plain android.
Angry Birds, man.. Love it on a tablet.
Kinda curious how the update will act.. but right now, gotta get my taxes done.
Can I ask what can you do now on your phone that you couldn’t before?
I did mine about a month ago, added a 32GB SDHC class 10 chip and it is great. Movies play flawlessly, audiobooks sound great and the apps run smooth and clean.
The single biggest thing is that I can store apps on the card versus having to store then on the phone. The phone only had 18 or 20 mb of free space previously, so being able to store a 13 mb app on the card is a very big deal. I have apps on the phone which I previously couldn’t have at all because of size considerations.
The OS is fancier, with live wallpaper enabled with the Cyanogen Mod, but that’s much less important.
I’m still discovering features. One that I found today was a blacklist feature in the phone program that enables you to reject calls. Now I need to find someone to reject :)
Help me out...I was thinking of a NEXTbook Next3...Andoid tablet. What’s the difference ?
Thanks,
I’ve been debating whether to mess with doing it.
Thanks for the video link. Reading this (and posting) from my Nook Color. I’ve decided to wait until tomorrow (after the possible update) before I root it, but I love it as it is now. Spent last night reading The Federalist while listening to John Lee Hooker (on Pandora) on it.
(I play Angry Birds on the wife’s Droid X) ;)
...sigh...
Obviously not very competent with it yet.
That comment was intended for you... :)
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