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Originally Posted by jswinden
I agree too with one addition--I think all the Android tablets are slow, crippled, and have a horrible OS on them. I played with several and they all blew chunks.
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I absolutely agree with you. Google have said several times very publically that Android 2.2 is not yet ready to be a tablet OS. This thing is based on 2.1. But then, I suppose, you could argue that by locking it up as 'merely' an ereader, B&N are not using it as a tablet OS. You
could argue that....
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Originally Posted by volwrath
I may buy one and slap the Android Kindle App on there  |
It's going to be a closed system: unless you're willing to jailbreak it and put your own version of Android on it, I shouldn't think B&N will let you.
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Wonder what quality of speaker(s) it will have?
I can see marketing it as a platform for reading books
with your kids as actually having some potential, and something as simple as playing sounds when they move certain parts of images/animations would be pretty cool. All depends how many authors/publishers/coders B&N can get to design books specifically for a format this device can display - or whether B&N can piggy-back on stuff released for the iPad.