Comments on: Hands-On Around the Web with the Nook Color [Plus Barnes&Noble Press Release] http://www.slashgear.com/hands-on-around-the-web-with-the-nook-color-plus-barnesnoble-press-release-26110377/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 09:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: ypocaramel http://www.slashgear.com/hands-on-around-the-web-with-the-nook-color-plus-barnesnoble-press-release-26110377/#comment-71876 ypocaramel Sat, 13 Nov 2010 06:16:41 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=110377#comment-71876 Thing is, B&N isn’t trying to take over tablet computing. As far as I can tell, just want a color e-reader for books, magazines, ‘coffee table’ books with awesome photography, cookbooks and childrens’ books, plus a promotional platform for their Nook social networking and office/pdf viewing, and web-browsing as a bonus.

Without fruther clinical evidence of eyestrain benefits from e-ink (and my personal experience is that ergonomic matter much more than technology), short battery life seems to be the issue.

That said, if they sell you a high-res IPS screen + a A8 CPU for $250, then yea, they’d better make money off selling content. Probably why they want to restrict the environment so you can’t just install Kindle on it, though according to Adobe it does support Adobe Digital Editions so it’ll do Sony E-Reader store or Kobo.

]]> By: meone http://www.slashgear.com/hands-on-around-the-web-with-the-nook-color-plus-barnesnoble-press-release-26110377/#comment-69943 meone Fri, 29 Oct 2010 01:30:56 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=110377#comment-69943 The Nook Color will not run apps straight out of the Android Market, but that does not mean it cannot run them. In fact, they have done a lot of tests on apps from standard Android smartphones and they pretty much run on Nook Color, which has Android 2.1 under the hood. (The Nook native interface and apps are just standard Android application layers.) Barnes & Noble special Nook SDK runs on top of the standard Android one and gives developers access to exclusive extensions and APIs for the Nook and its interface. So porting Android apps is not difficult. B&N says it is more like optimising them for Nook than porting them.
Nook Color screen is supposed to be better (less reflective) for reading than iPad.

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