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Originally Posted by taosaur
Actually, it will be minus two or three days, as the new Nook is already rooted and sorta-kinda running Angry Birds. However, if you watch some of the videos of either Angry Birds or the vestigial browser accessible via the new Nook's search function (without rooting), you'll start to see why the majority of apps--anything that involves scrolling, certainly--are going to be unusable or very unpleasant to use with e-ink.
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This may come as a shocking revelation for some folks . . .
are you ready for this? . . . there are actually other Android apps besides "Angry Birds"
(Some of which actually do something USEFUL.)
I don't know who the idiot was who decided that 'Angry Birds' represents the ultimate Android benchmark, but thanks for the info, this is good news.
As I mentioned in my previous post, not all apps are going to be suitable for eInk devices, just as heavy multi-media content doesn't work on platforms with limited graphics or CPU resources.
Android has a lot of special features designed to allow maximum portability between devices, and eInk devices are just one more platform that needs to be accommodated. So once the app designers get a handle on the challenges presented by eInk devices, I think you will be surprised at how well some of the apps can be made to work on the Nook Touch.
