I think, oddly, that B&N's year lead on Nook color development helped them out with the Nook tablet quite a bit. I expected the Fire to crush the low-end Android tablet market, but IMO it seems like they fumbled it quite a bit. It's doing well, but not how people expected.
The extra few bucks they spent on the extra 512MB of RAM, hardware volume controls, and a year of software polish on their particular flavor of Android has helped them out quite a bit.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
It seems to me that you're going to an awful lot of trouble to try to convert a dedicated B&N reading device into a general-purpose Android tablet. I don't mean to be impolite, but might it not have been less hassle to have simply bought a general-purpose Android tablet in the first place? Goodness knows, there are enough of them about!
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Installing the Amazon app store, google apps, etc is way easier so far than the rooting and such that the original NC required.
I'm out of the Nook scene for now (my NC went to ebay to pay for a christmas present...and it's being replaced by a Toshiba Thrive
), but I figure I'll get a Nook Tablet again down the road, especially if they get past the bootloader. It's a great little device and much more portable than a 10" tablet.