Amazon/Nook see some serious competition.

[jhempel24]

Originally Posted by Hellmark

If that was the case, then how come I've yet to see a NC in the wild not rooted? Almost everyone I've talked to about it said they did it because they wanted access to the Android Market. Especially with the software available, it doesn't take a techie to root it. It is as easy as download a program, connect SD card to computer, click button in program, put the SD card into the NC and boot the NC.

I've never seen anyone with a rooted Nook Color, it's all been stock. Except here.

[stonetools]

Originally Posted by jhempel24

I've never seen anyone with a rooted Nook Color, it's all been stock. Except here.

If you are around techies, especially android fan techies, you'll see rooted android stuff a lot. If you spend most of your time around non techies, you'll hardly ever see that.

In the Android community, rooting devices is what they do. Josh topolsky asked an interesting question once:

" if the first thing you do with your phone is to root it and make wholesale changes to the interface, then maybe you bought the wrong phone?"

[tubemonkey]

Originally Posted by stonetools

If you are around techies, especially android fan techies, you'll see rooted android stuff a lot. If you spend most of your time around non techies, you'll hardly ever see that.

In the Android community, rooting devices is what they do. Josh topolsky asked an interesting question once:

" if the first thing you do with your phone is to root it and make wholesale changes to the interface, then maybe you bought the wrong phone?"

I went with the Nook Color because of these features:

• half the price
• 7" 16:9 display
• expandable storage
• flash support

Android followed by default. I would've gone with Apple (own a iPt4) if they made such a device. But they don't, so I didn't.

Rooting was necessary in order to gain access to an app store.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by PaulJones

That's quite an attractive little pad given its size and price. I noticed in one shot that I could see a lot of fingerprints on the screen which is one of my problems with the Nook Color. I find myself really distracted by the grease spots my fingers tend to leave (but I live in the desert and I tend to be a bit on the sweaty side).

Nice pad and a good price, though.

Yeah that's one thing that bugs me about all these shiny screened devices - that and the reflections/glare, but one does kinda get used to it a bit...

[Sweetpea]

And that can easily be solved by adding an anti-glare film. No more easily visible finger prints, nor glare.

[j.p.s]

Originally Posted by stonetools

In the Android community, rooting devices is what they do. Josh topolsky asked an interesting question once:

" if the first thing you do with your phone is to root it and make wholesale changes to the interface, then maybe you bought the wrong phone?"

Maybe. But maybe it is also the least wrong phone available.

[afv011]

Originally Posted by tubemonkey

[*]7" 16:9 display

Nitpicking here, but it is not 16:9, it is slightly wider.

[Hellmark]

Originally Posted by stonetools

If you are around techies, especially android fan techies, you'll see rooted android stuff a lot. If you spend most of your time around non techies, you'll hardly ever see that.

In the Android community, rooting devices is what they do. Josh topolsky asked an interesting question once:

" if the first thing you do with your phone is to root it and make wholesale changes to the interface, then maybe you bought the wrong phone?"

One thing I've seen, is people dropping the manufacturer changes. For instance, I like HTC because they seem to have some of the best build qualities and specs. However, I hate Sense and prefer the stock Android interface. My phone stock didn't come with Sense, and I've kept things pretty looking stock in comparison. I am running ADW, which just gives me more options on the stock appearance, for doing things such as tweaking performance (I keep things as slim as possible, resource wise). Of the people I know with rooted phones, usually they're just getting back control over things that the carrier or manufacturer removed. My girlfriend's phone used to act as a wifi hotspot, until her carrier removed that option because they decided they wanted to charge for it. She could root it and gain back what she had lost, or just deal with the loss. Given that Android is linux based, and the dev community is largely FOSS people drawn over from the linux community, they're choosing to break things open, see how it works, and make things that give them full control. This is especially so, when changes are done after the fact. Android originally was "Hey, we're open source, we let you use your phone how you want", then as time goes on, it has been locked down by the carriers.

[wodin]

Originally Posted by stonetools

" if the first thing you do with your phone is to root it and make wholesale changes to the interface, then maybe you bought the wrong phone?"

No, you bought the right one, because you can!