Thread: NOOKcolor or Samsung Galaxy Tab?
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Old 01-18-2011, 02:03 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by jocampo View Post
Yes, with Galaxy Tab you basically have a small computer on your hands. The browser fully supports Flash and you can visit and use any site. I use it for my bank accounts here in USA and no problems so far. You can type or use the mobile version of a site or the regular one; Dolphine browser auto adjusts text and screen size and you can use gestures as well.

If you are planning to use any of those as an ereader, I would like to mention than Nookt Color does not provide landscape mode; Galaxy does, with its Nook Android app and Kindle. PDF experience is better with the Galaxy Tab; Nook Color does not save "last page read" when reading a PDF, annoying. You can use night reading mode on Galaxy, with Kindle and Nook apps.

If price is a concern and you are willing to root, go get the Nook Color. Of course, you will have to understand that you will be altering the original device and Os so any future B&N firmware upgrades can break it, unless you disable wifi.

I'm looking at my nook color now and have my Droid X PDF manual on it and it reads in Landscape. Also the nook color can go into landscape mode when browsing the net.

it's only ePub books that can only be read in portrait mode, which basically is ok since reading a book in landscape mode on an 8 inch screen is rather annoying. But that is also a software fix, so It's not like it's going to be like this forever, it def. could be offered in the future.

but for everything else, magazines, PDF, web browing etc, Landscape mode DOES work.

soo let's keep this honest Joe OK
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