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Originally Posted by jswinden
I really wish people would stop calling the NC a "tablet" altogether as it was designed for a reader and really doesn't have the stuff under the hood to make it a true tablet, nor the buttons nor the USB ports. It is a reader, and a reader by any other root is still a READER.
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I respectfully disagree.
What makes a computer device a tablet is the main I/O port, which on those cases is the screen. In other words, tablets have a main LCD screen which uses touch as main input and usually there is a virtual keyboard instead of a physical one, and they are larger than cellphones. Devices which fall under that category are: iPad, Galaxy Tab, Nook Color, HP slate, Notion Ink, Pocketbook IQ, etc.
What's special about the Nook Color is the UI, which has been customized (or locked, depending of your point of view) limiting the user to what B&N install by default. Yeah, you can root it, alter that, etc, but the hardware is still the same.
Android is just the operating system, required on any computer device, but iPads do not run Linux and they are still tablets.
And I am not questioning your personal enjoyment or not with my statement, so don't get me wrong, but there is a technical difference between a tablet and a true dedicated e-reader, like a Sony, Nook 1st gen or even Kindle. Actually and if you want to take some distance from the technical point of view, we can say the Nook Color is a tablet that has been customized to be a dedicated e-reader, but that won't change the fact it uses LCD screen as main I/O anyway.