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NOOK Color running Honeycomb review
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Friday April 8, 2011
Gadget TV
Friday April 8, 2011
Shoehorning Android 3.0 Honeycomb onto the NOOK Color makes for the best $250 Honeycomb tablet going. Perhaps even the best $250 Android tablet out there. While it's not without its issues, deeper-blue's Honeycomb for NOOK Color image, Honeycomb runs beautifully on your NOOK Color from a microSD card, 4GB or better. While there are options to root the NOOK Color and permanently make it an Android tablet, deeper-blue's microSD solution makes getting back to the original NOOK Color interface as easy as popping out the microSD card.
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NOOK Color running Android 3.0 Honeycomb
$249 (NOOK Color)
+ ~$40 for a Class 4 microSD card 4GB or better
Getting Honeycomb onto the NOOK Color is easy. There are simple instructions for writing the image onto your microSD card for all computer platforms. We'll have a step-by-step video guide online soon too.
Initial boot-up of the NOOK Color running Honeycomb takes about 40 seconds. While the NOOK Color has a distinct lack of buttons -- specifically the back, settings, home etc. buttons that Android smartphones have -- it's not entirely suitable for running non-tablet versions of Android, i.e. 2.2 or 2.3. However, Honeycomb, Android 3.0 is made for tablets and gets rid of the hardware buttons altogether. Instead, home, back, multitasking and settings are all accessed via on-screen touch buttons.
The NOOK Color has a screen aspect ratio that's perfect for reading books and magazines, not so perfect for use as a full tablet though. It's not a deal killer at all, though you'll find some of your widgets get cut off when in portrait mode.
The initial process of getting Honeycomb onto the NOOK Color is very easy. However, getting the Android Market and some of the Google apps like Maps and Gmail onto the device is not so simple. We'll have a video walk-through on how to get the Android Market onto the NOOK Color running Honeycomb soon so stay tuned.
$249 (NOOK Color)
+ ~$40 for a Class 4 microSD card 4GB or better
Getting Honeycomb onto the NOOK Color is easy. There are simple instructions for writing the image onto your microSD card for all computer platforms. We'll have a step-by-step video guide online soon too.
Initial boot-up of the NOOK Color running Honeycomb takes about 40 seconds. While the NOOK Color has a distinct lack of buttons -- specifically the back, settings, home etc. buttons that Android smartphones have -- it's not entirely suitable for running non-tablet versions of Android, i.e. 2.2 or 2.3. However, Honeycomb, Android 3.0 is made for tablets and gets rid of the hardware buttons altogether. Instead, home, back, multitasking and settings are all accessed via on-screen touch buttons.
The NOOK Color has a screen aspect ratio that's perfect for reading books and magazines, not so perfect for use as a full tablet though. It's not a deal killer at all, though you'll find some of your widgets get cut off when in portrait mode.
The initial process of getting Honeycomb onto the NOOK Color is very easy. However, getting the Android Market and some of the Google apps like Maps and Gmail onto the device is not so simple. We'll have a video walk-through on how to get the Android Market onto the NOOK Color running Honeycomb soon so stay tuned.
Tagged:
Android 3.0
,Android Market
,hack
,Honeycomb
,Nook Color
,NOOK Color Honeycomb
,review
,tweak
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