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Originally Posted by PhillyGirl
I didn't know that the white was running a newer os version. She has the black but with 4gig memory. She is happy as a clam with it and more so with the light games I put on it (solitaire, word search, backgammon, etc). I would like the video to play better, but with the os being v1.6 there may not be options. I haven't researched it much.
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4GB is storage v. application/OS RAM. The white PDN (7" they've got a crapload of them now ALL called the Pandigital Novel...) has some builtin storage(don't recall the exact amount offhand) that is used for the base OS, but it also has an internal microSD slot that ships with a 1GB uSD card which can be replaced, but for stock and stock based firmware it's pointless as it's only used for Pandigital app usage while added applications will prefer to use the external SD card...
Best bet for video and Android 1.6 is probably an app called Rockplayer. There's a free version and you should be able to find it somewhere for download, but I'm not that familiar with the BPDN so I'd check the slatedroid forums for more info.
The BPDN is actually a bit lighter than the WPDN(thing's freaking heavy for 7"), and the stock firmware is supposed to be a bit faster so if it's primarily for use as a reader it's probably actually better, but if you're hacking, the white one is better.
Also note what I mentioned about Pandigital having a bunch of models now all called the "Novel" (they're VERY original in their naming scheme!) as there is the original Pandigital Novel 7" (white), followed by the Pandigital Novel 7" (black I presume that your mother has this one), a Pandigital Novel 9" (black IIRC that was sold on QVC or something I guess possibly at Bed Bath & Beyond too), a Pandigital Novel 6"(IIRC eInk reader), and then I read something about HSN or some other TV sales channel having, I think, the 9" in multiple colors or something... getting to be very confusing w/o having/using the actual model #s... What's even funnier is that their website(and support) don't seem to even acknowledge that some of these models exist, and until the other week was just handling the 7" models and differentiating them by having the user pick the color...
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Oops, I believe that I made a mistake the Android version of the Black 7" Novel is, apparently, 1.5 which means that it MIGHT have a Rockchip SoC which does dairly decent video playback. Also if you plan to monkey around with firmwares on the non-white ones pay close attention to the firmware first post and do NOT attempt to use one that is meant for the white Novel 7"...
er time to go back ontopic anyways...
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