Reports are that after doing the update manually, or after having the update pushed to your Nook Color, the registration service is failing. This is leaving the device basically in a "just purchased/un-registered" state. Meaning no access to your content. This happened with a friends Nook Color, and after a long an uneventful call to customer service it appears that a new update is being pushed to correct the problem. This was on a stock Nook Color, with no updates. It has not happened...
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I then reinstalled factory and then up to Gingerbread, a little more involved but well worth the upgrade. Just a couple of the apps that: Full access to the offical market Amazon market every version of Angry Birds plays really well All of the instructions are availabe if you look up xda developers website. I have turned twenty of my friends towards this pad. They all love it after it has been rooted.
2 and Honeycomb when I need Adobe Flash or want to try out some of Google's tablet OS features. I am very satisfied with this product and get asked all the time "Is that an iPad?" The great 7in IPS screen (same technology as Apple's famous product) is beautiful and I easily get about 20 hours of use or more from the battery. I highly recommend this product.
I am almost right up there with him. As an ereader, it works as BN intended with a good selection. Magazines and Newspapers are topshelf. I subscribe to a few and have been extremely happy. I have ADW for the root and it works as intended. The full android market is available as well. The screen is great for those that use the browser(I am ready for pinch/zoom whenever you are BN). I have watched a few movies on it and the picture was superb. You do have to recode most movies in order for them...
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Everyone else is hitting higher price points, which is the opposite of how things usually go with Apple. Why is this suddenly the opposite of how things have gone with Apple's computers and PMPs? The Archos tablets are looking like busts for now. The best budget alternative to the iPad right to root a loss leader color e-book reader that may never have certain features like cameras and whatnot. If nobody equals or undercuts the iPad's $500 entry price, then Apple will obliterate the...
This device is becoming more and more promising as a low cost option for anyone looking for an Android tablet. At $250 it can easily be rooted and over-clocked to 1Ghz with a fairly high success rate with apps.
If so, which kind? Both Amazon and Barnes & Noble said their respective e-book readers have been selling like gangbusters this holiday season. I actually decided to purchase a Kindle for my dad, right before Christmas. I frantically searched every Target and Best Buy in Southern California (at least it seemed like it -- who knew there were so damn many in such a small area?) for a Kindle, only to find that every place was sold out! Barnes & Noble seemed to have had plenty of nooks in...
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Sometimes it won`t react when I touch it, sometimes it reacts without me touching it, and sometimes i can`t use the browser. Hoping that software update is coming soon.
If you want an eReader with more functionality and don't mind charging every few days, the NookColor is a no-brainer. Browser is more than capable, media player is OK, Flash and Silverlight (i.e., Netflix streaming) support are coming soon. Build quality is great. Half the price, easily, of everything out there except for no-name tablets. ePub support for public library books and Google bookstore support seals the deal for me over the Kindle. e-ink sounds great at first, definitely wins for...
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I like e-ink, and if you ask me this is still the best reader out there. the Kindle 3 is nice but its more of a status Icon. This clearly has a much better community and library of free books.I just got a Blue battery cover and now my Nook is unique.
but the computers do not see the nook for sideloading. ADE also does not see it. Have used a non B&N cable for 11 months with no problem and both the non and the white B&N cable malfunction. Did a factory reset and was O.K. for a few days then does not operate properly again.
This was immediately gone when I realized that it was an LCD screen. What I'm wanting to know is people's opinions on e-ink vs and LCD screen and would you go with the color screen of the Nook over grayscale e-ink of the Kindle. Personally I think that the Kindle would be much better for extended reading. That is why I decided to go with a dedicated device for reading over the iPad.
If you're going to take the hit to battery life moving from e-ink to LCD and you're already running Android, then why are you not just selling it as an Android tablet? Perhaps they stand out a little from the rest of the Android tablet crowd by branding it as a reader, but what they gain in awareness they lose in an "actual functionality vs dollars spent" comparison. It's the worst of both worlds: the limited battery life of an LCD based tablet, plus (most) of the usage...
I got a NOOK color for Christmas. A couple of nights ago I started charge it I came back to my and I heard a pop noise and I look at my NOOK color charge a it was not working and I was going take it back out and put it back in to see if it work. When I did the front piece of the charge was broke I tried to fix it but it did not work. And I do not have a new one is there any way to charge my NOOK color. If know anyway please respond. Thank you
Amazon's Kindle Fire now seems to be a better buy (both hardware and price) than the Nook Color. It seems to be a pretty aggressive price point. How will Barnes & Noble respond? They've been pretty aggressive releasing the Nook Color and Nook Simple Touch. The Nook Color is nearly a year old at this point as well -- so we're about due for a new tablet from them. One would think they knew Amazon would get into this market as well. Does this signal the beginning of the end, or is the tablet war...
A local electronics shop is offering the Viewsonic tablet for $350, which is certainly a good enough price to make it worth looking at, however, I certainly have no qualms about rooting a Nook and installing Cyanogen on there. My primary use will be reading PDF files, and many of those PDF files are going to consist of scanned images as opposed to text. 3G isn't important, as I can use my phone as a hotspot. So which should it be?
For some reason the page I am currently on does not seem to be sent to the server at any particular time on either device. Sometimes I can coax it into doing this by refreshing my library on each device, but if I just put the device down or close the app it does not send my current page to the server. Has anyone else experienced this? I do have the book setup for syncing on the nook itself and it works very infrequently. I am debating switching to a Kindle just for the Whispersync which seems...
Just curious if anyone out there has had an opportunity to compare side-by-side the Kindle 3 screen to the Nook screen. Most of the reviews I have read online stated the Nook had slightly better contrast than the Kindle 2. Being that the Kindle 3 has "50%" more contrast than the Kindle 2, I am wondering how that translates compared to the Nook. A noticeable difference?
I want to get an eReader. I just don't know which one to purchase. They both look nice and have their respective features. I'm going on a trip so no wi-fi, and I want internet access. The only way would would be to use the Kindle with 3G. I want to get the device with the most non-fiction books like history.
(This is my first device with a micro-USB connector, so perhaps this is just how it's supposed to fit.) The cable works when plugged in, of course. It just wiggles.
I wish they were inverted so the 'next page' was the 'previous page'. It would just feel a little more comfortable when reading with one hand. Anyone at least agree?
I know it runs Android, and it has games, and a browser, and some other features, all with certain limits. But I also have heard that there is a hacking scene with the Nook, with homebrew apps for it and such. Has anybody had any experience with hacking their Nook that can say to weather it's worth doing or not? Or what kind of features I can get from doing so? I'd hope that there is a lot of neat stuff people can do, given that it's based on Android and has 3g built in.
most are either folders of jpgs, .zip or cbz/cbr files and I know I can convert most of them into a epub file. My main concern is, will the nook stretch out or misplace text from the original speech bubbles? I've heard it's ok now but I really want to make sure.
I have been looking for a definitive answer on this issue. The Kindle 2 has Whispersync, where the device syncs to the last page read in teh book you are currently reading between devices. Does anyone know if this functionality is supposed to be coming in the nook? I have seen conflicting answers. Some people seem to point to the statement that "books will sync between devices" however all that I find that to mean is that my B&N online library is synced, but not the location I am...
between the nook and the kindle which will offer a better value for the money and also which will be more than reinvent the market of the e-book reader.
Seriously, this is yet another exciting possibility about this eBook reader. With the potential ability to hack Android, a mini USB port, and a Micro SD slot, is it possible we could see future, home-brew support for more document formats besides PDF (such at DOC, or even TXT?). In my opinion, this eBook reader is one of the most exciting yet released.
