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If you must have a great tablet, and you’re willing to pay the price for it, Apple’s iPad 2 is still the one to get. But, if you’d like a good tablet at half-the-price, the newly firmware renovated Barnes & Noble Nook Color may be all the tablet you need.
Today, April 25th, as has long been expected, the Nook Color got its 1.2 update. This transforms the Nook Color from being an e-reader to being a low-end Android tablet by replacing its operating system with Android 2.2 (Froyo) and adding an App Store.
Since I’ve been waiting for the Nook Color update for weeks, I immediately downloaded the firmware, which for now you must do to make the jump and put it to work. If you’d rather not jump in where non-computer savvy users fear to tread you can wait for the download and upgrade to be made automatically.
Before jumping into a review of the Nook Color 1.2, let’s go over the basics. The Nook Color specs include the following:
” 7 inch VividView capacitive touch screen at 1024×600 resolution
” 800MHz ARM Cortex A8-based, 45nm OMAP3621 processor
” 8GB internal memory (5GB for storage)
” 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi
” microSD expansion card slot
” 3.5mm headset jack
” Integrated mono speaker
” Standard microUSB port for charging and book transfer via cable
” Dimensions of 8.1 x 5.0 x 0.48 inches and 15.8 ounces
That tells you several things right there. The first is that this is not going to be setting any speed records. If its speed you want, look to iPad 2 or such Android tablets such as the forthcoming Acer Iconia Tab A500, Dell Streak Pro, or Amazon’s own Kindle changed into a tablet. Of course, you’re also going to pay more for any of these than the ‘good enough’ Nook Color.
Now, Allen Weiner, a Gartner VP of Research, says “The Nook Color with its new Froyo upgrade is not an iPad-not even close. But [for] those who are looking for a great cross-media reading device with some nice new multimedia bells and whistles, it remains a go-to device.” I’d say it’s more than that. Here’s what I found.
