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Originally Posted by boswd
and also let's not forget the price difference, the nook colors spec to price ratio is insane. Any high end Android tablet is going to be almost doubled the amount.
You truely become Lord of your device.
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This answers Harry's question quite nicely in the case of the older Nook color.
For the new Nook STR, Harry effectively answered his own question when he refereed to 'dedicated devices'.
In the case of the new Nook STR, because it is a
dedicated eReader device, it has features you will NEVER find on a generic Android tablet device -
1.) An eInk display - This is great for a 'dedicated' eReader device, but sucks for multimedia (which is too important to sacrifice in a general purpose device.)
2.) Ultra low power consumption for weeks of battery life (not achievable on a general purpose device with a backlit screen.)
3.) Page Turn Buttons.
Going the other way, why bother rooting? Because there are literally thousands of Apps that should be able to run JUST FINE on an eInk device, dispite it's slower screen updates and black and white graphics.
- Better PDF viewers with advanced capabilities, like marking up PDFs in place, and saving the annotations directly to the PDF so it can be sent to someone else for review.
- Better EPUB viewer
- Android Bookstore apps from other suppliers like Kobo, and Amazon.
- An advanced scientific, business or other special purpose calculator, for students, engineers, and other professionals.
- Personal productivity tools like day planner, note organizer, e-mail app with Sync to your PC/Mac (the first e-readers were apps running on PDA's, and though they may never have been more than so-so as eReaders, with Android, the Nook STR can be OUTSTANDING as a PDA device.
- Enhanced Wikipedia interface.
- And let's not forget *gag* social networking access.
I could go on for sixteen pages . . . but you get the idea. Basicaly anything you need a powerful daylight readable touch tablet computing device with outstanding battery life for.
