[brlug-general] Android tablets? tabloids? tabdroids?

[Tim Fournet]

Yeah I'm running Gingerbread on mine via Cyanogen, and it's pretty
much flawless. Flash runs smoother on it than it does on a netbook.
The only thing I miss is the native Nook app that allows LendMe, but
hopefully that's coming to the standard Android side at some point.


On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Richards Jr, Edward C.
<ECRichards at fbd.com> wrote:
> But rooting and roming it is so easy. I have Honeycomb on the flash drive and Gingerbread on the SD card. Both work well, just no flash available for HC yet. Gingerbread runs smoothly from the SD card and has flash and all the other stuff.
>
> Ed
>
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> From: general-bounces at brlug.net [mailto:general-bounces at brlug.net] On Behalf Of Tim Fournet
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 2:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Android tablets? tabloids? tabdroids?
>
> The NC is supposed to be getting an upgrade to Android 2.2 along with
> a B&N market this month. This should also bring flash to the browser,
> most likely a better launcher, and other neat tricks without having to
> root.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Byron Como <bcomo at cox.net> wrote:
>> Supposedly this month B&N will allow developers to start selling apps from
>> their app store. I checked out Google's app store but am confused by a
>> clause in the fine print that may prevent selling an app in other
>> competitor's app stores.
>>
>>
>> On 4/13/2011 9:32 AM, Ray DeJean wrote:
>>>
>>> If that is one of the gen 1 nooks, I have one (and paid a lot more than
>>> $104!) and can say it is pretty darn slow even as an e-reader.  So yea,
>>> probably not good for much else.
>>>
>>> Ray
>>>
>>> On Apr 13, 2011, at 8:36 AM, Tim Fournet<tfournet at tfour.net>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> still a rootable device, but not as useful outside of an e-reader -
>>>> www.nookdevs.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Kevin Bucknum<kevin.bucknum at gmail.com>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Ahh - saw Color in the description of the Nav Panel and my brain
>>>>> expanded it
>>>>> out to everything.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Tim Fournet<tfournet at tfour.net>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Those are black&  white nooks. Nice devices, and they are android, but
>>>>>> only the bottom part of the screen is usable for color/touchscreen
>>>>>> stuff
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Kevin Bucknum<kevin.bucknum at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For what it's worth, Woot has refurb Nook Colors for $104 today.
>>>>>>> http://www.woot.com/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:15
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