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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Help me out...I was thinking of a NEXTbook Next3...Andoid tablet. What’s the difference ?
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Looks like the perfect gift for my mother. Load up a couple of mysteries, the bible, and a 1000 pics of the grandkids... and I will be the king of gift giving.