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jocampo · 04-27-2011, 05:00 PM

You get what you pay for, of course.

I paid $250.00 plus taxes for my Nook Color (stock NC, please read well folks), but with the inability to go back and resume my PDF document from where I was, no landscape (my Kindle 3 is eink, ridiculously cheap and does landscape) and (at that time) a buggy wireless and a buggy browser, I just returned the Nook Color and later bought a Galaxy Tab. The GT is not my main ereader but works well out of the box and with same size than Nook Color, it is more powerful and weight less.

Landscape is very important for reading poetry or programming books. Without landscape mode the lines break, resulting in a poor formatting or a paragraph that is difficult or almost impossible to read. Similar complain when enlarging embeded pictures; when I bought mine, it was not possible (I do not know if was fixed or not with this release) but some tables are pictures on programming books and if you cannot enlarge those, you are losing information there, it is too small to read. Again, the Kindle 3 does that (not sure if Sony, I am assuming we can)

In my opinion, it is unacceptable that a device that is out of the box locked from Android Market and also being sold as an ereader, fails so miserable in so many aspects that are basics for most users and other products. For only 100 dollars more, you can get a Galaxy Tab wifi, just to mention one of the many alternatives. Granted, not all people can afford a $350.00 device but still is not an astronomic amount of money for what you are getting, without the need of any rooting or be always worried about next B&N firmware upgrade which is going to step on whatever you installed or rooted already.

Even the iPad, with the crappy way to sync, which is iTunes, it just works out of the box.

It is a real shame that B&N did not unlocked that device or does not want to, because with official B&N dev. support, it would be unbeatable at that price. But it is worse that after half year they just came out and released this minor upgrade.

Based on what B&N delivered after about 6 months of development it is clear that they do not want to really improve the stock tablet and operating system or they just don't know what they are doing.

I think that it us up to people if they really want to save some bucks and keep rooting this device or save some money and buy something that works out of the box.

04-27-2011, 05:00 PM	#149
jocampo Layback feline Posts: 3,034 Karma: 6980745 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: USA Device: Oasis 2nd gen, Sony DPTS1, iPad Pro 10.5"	You get what you pay for, of course. I paid $250.00 plus taxes for my Nook Color (stock NC, please read well folks), but with the inability to go back and resume my PDF document from where I was, no landscape (my Kindle 3 is eink, ridiculously cheap and does landscape) and (at that time) a buggy wireless and a buggy browser, I just returned the Nook Color and later bought a Galaxy Tab. The GT is not my main ereader but works well out of the box and with same size than Nook Color, it is more powerful and weight less. Landscape is very important for reading poetry or programming books. Without landscape mode the lines break, resulting in a poor formatting or a paragraph that is difficult or almost impossible to read. Similar complain when enlarging embeded pictures; when I bought mine, it was not possible (I do not know if was fixed or not with this release) but some tables are pictures on programming books and if you cannot enlarge those, you are losing information there, it is too small to read. Again, the Kindle 3 does that (not sure if Sony, I am assuming we can) In my opinion, it is unacceptable that a device that is out of the box locked from Android Market and also being sold as an ereader, fails so miserable in so many aspects that are basics for most users and other products. For only 100 dollars more, you can get a Galaxy Tab wifi, just to mention one of the many alternatives. Granted, not all people can afford a $350.00 device but still is not an astronomic amount of money for what you are getting, without the need of any rooting or be always worried about next B&N firmware upgrade which is going to step on whatever you installed or rooted already. Even the iPad, with the crappy way to sync, which is iTunes, it just works out of the box. It is a real shame that B&N did not unlocked that device or does not want to, because with official B&N dev. support, it would be unbeatable at that price. But it is worse that after half year they just came out and released this minor upgrade. Based on what B&N delivered after about 6 months of development it is clear that they do not want to really improve the stock tablet and operating system or they just don't know what they are doing. I think that it us up to people if they really want to save some bucks and keep rooting this device or save some money and buy something that works out of the box.