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So if the Nook Color lasts upto 8 hours when reading books, how long does the battery last when running Android apps, games & web browsing?, 6 hours?.
For a dedicated reader I would stick to an eink device with a month long battery, oh and get a proper tablet for apps as if the Nook Color was suitably for apps & games then B&N would have included the Android store as default.
For a dedicated reader I would stick to an eink device with a month long battery, oh and get a proper tablet for apps as if the Nook Color was suitably for apps & games then B&N would have included the Android store as default.
Not if they were hoping to subsidize the Nook Color with $12.99 books. They locked it down so you'd use it to buy their books. They also have been quoted in several places to be big believers in the psychology behind the "readers trance," a well-known state that all novelists try to attain with their copy. To B&N, disrupting this "trance" by allowing people to jump out and play games, surf the web (beyond the basics), check email, etc just removes from the business that they are in...selling you books that you enjoy reading on their device so much that you come back and buy MORE books, thus increasing their profits.
This is no different than how Verizon treated their phones and the V-everything private app store garden when they were first introduced. Android changed all that, but thats not how they started.
Oh and speaking of walled gardens.....this was and is Apple's entire strategy. The difference is that I don't think B&N has the customer draw that they believe they do and they were too late to the market since Kindle had such a strong foothold already. But many of those Kindle owners are hesitant to move to any device that won't let them take their library with them.
Of course, if you root your Nook Color, you CAN.
As for battery time, I'm reading about it now since I'm considering rooting our NC just for grins. It appears that in most situations, rooting will make the battery time drop but largely because people start using the device for more than just reading...games, email, browsing, etc.
i plan to get the nook color and root it soon. it's worth the difficulty for a $250 tablet with froyo.
You won't be getting into no readers trance with the battery running out before you've read half the book 
. Seriously though it would be interesting to know how long it lasts just reading with wifi left on.
I thought Google themselves said that version of Android wasn't suitable for tablets?, doesn't that say that its hardly going to be the optimal experience. Or does the Color have the new gingerbread software (no Android expert here).
I could understand doing it if you already had a Nook Color, but I could never imagine buying one in the first place, it's not just the battery, or the old version of Android it's just that I could never enjoy a tablet with a 7" screen, I guess B&N realised that and aimed it solely at readers.
Are B&N a big company over in the States?, we can't even buy Nooks here in the UK. I would have thought long-term they would struggle to compete with companies that have the resources of Apple & Amazon, for instance do they have tv ads for the Nook?.
. Seriously though it would be interesting to know how long it lasts just reading with wifi left on.I thought Google themselves said that version of Android wasn't suitable for tablets?, doesn't that say that its hardly going to be the optimal experience. Or does the Color have the new gingerbread software (no Android expert here).
I could understand doing it if you already had a Nook Color, but I could never imagine buying one in the first place, it's not just the battery, or the old version of Android it's just that I could never enjoy a tablet with a 7" screen, I guess B&N realised that and aimed it solely at readers.
Are B&N a big company over in the States?, we can't even buy Nooks here in the UK. I would have thought long-term they would struggle to compete with companies that have the resources of Apple & Amazon, for instance do they have tv ads for the Nook?.
Personally, having used the iPad for the past six months, I LOVE how the Nook Color and the Kindle feel in the hand. Very light, feels like holding a real book. The iPad feels like a brick by comparison....its NOT a brick, the iPad is very svelte but by comparison you really understand that the iPad is a tablet and the Nook/Kindle is an eReader and designed around the ergonomics of an optimized reading experience. Even the screen on the Nook Color looks MUCH sharper for text display than does the iPad. Mainly due to smaller screen and higher PPI. I know Steve Jobs has said he'd never make a smaller iPad and thats a shame really because I for one would LOVE to have an iPad this size. Maybe it'll be called the iPaperback and he can then save face that way
B&N is the largest US retailer of books...about $5B annualized revenues, and if you follow their stock, most of that revenue actually is against very little inventory assets as their business model revolves around the concept of consignment. This is also why the Nook/Nook Color is the way it is. Back in the 80's B&N got out of the traditional buy inventory, mark it up and sell it for more. Instead, they started renting shelf space in their stores. This let them invest more money in hard assets like real estate, fixtures and furnishings and get out of the high inventory holding costs affiliated with traditional retailing and merchandising operations. So in that manner, the Nook/NC are really just virtual shelves for them to stock, just like their brick and mortar stores.
Of course, Amazon dealt them (and their smaller rivals like Borders) a serious blow a decade ago and they've not ever really recovered. I think the Nook/NC is a great move for the company but it may prove to be too little/too late.
Nonetheless, they make a fine $250 Android tablet. Just rooted mine over lunch to see how it works that way. Process was brain-dead simple and I'm now installing a few marketplace apps on it to see how things work. I'll let you know how battery life fares.
PS: By the way, the NC runs Android 2.1...rooted its still the same. While this is definitely an older version of the Android OS, welcome to the world of Android! If you walk into any AT&T, Verizon or Tmobile store you'll find that most of the Samsung Galaxy series of Android phones -JUST- got upgraded to 2.1. Very few Android phones are running 2.2 (Froyo) and I've yet to see any outside the recent Google Nexus 2 that are running Gingerbread (2.3). The Android world is a freakin' mess when it comes to standardization on a current OS version it seems.
B&N is the largest US retailer of books...about $5B annualized revenues, and if you follow their stock, most of that revenue actually is against very little inventory assets as their business model revolves around the concept of consignment. This is also why the Nook/Nook Color is the way it is. Back in the 80's B&N got out of the traditional buy inventory, mark it up and sell it for more. Instead, they started renting shelf space in their stores. This let them invest more money in hard assets like real estate, fixtures and furnishings and get out of the high inventory holding costs affiliated with traditional retailing and merchandising operations. So in that manner, the Nook/NC are really just virtual shelves for them to stock, just like their brick and mortar stores.
Of course, Amazon dealt them (and their smaller rivals like Borders) a serious blow a decade ago and they've not ever really recovered. I think the Nook/NC is a great move for the company but it may prove to be too little/too late.
Nonetheless, they make a fine $250 Android tablet. Just rooted mine over lunch to see how it works that way. Process was brain-dead simple and I'm now installing a few marketplace apps on it to see how things work. I'll let you know how battery life fares.
PS: By the way, the NC runs Android 2.1...rooted its still the same. While this is definitely an older version of the Android OS, welcome to the world of Android! If you walk into any AT&T, Verizon or Tmobile store you'll find that most of the Samsung Galaxy series of Android phones -JUST- got upgraded to 2.1. Very few Android phones are running 2.2 (Froyo) and I've yet to see any outside the recent Google Nexus 2 that are running Gingerbread (2.3). The Android world is a freakin' mess when it comes to standardization on a current OS version it seems.
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Just checking back in....
Rooted my Nook Color on a full charge 24 hours ago. Since then I've used it 7h42m. I just now got to within 10% of empty. Not bad...and as soon as I figure out a way to kill the native "phone" parts of the OS, I hear it will improve further.
Not bad for a $250 iPad replacement!
Rooted my Nook Color on a full charge 24 hours ago. Since then I've used it 7h42m. I just now got to within 10% of empty. Not bad...and as soon as I figure out a way to kill the native "phone" parts of the OS, I hear it will improve further.
Not bad for a $250 iPad replacement!