Turning Your E-Reader Into a Cheap Tablet

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday March 27, 2011 @04:55AM from the generic-computing dept.

grahamsaa writes "NPR's Weekend Edition aired a story today on how rooting the Nook Color can turn it into a full fledged and relatively inexpensive Android tablet. The story claims that the process takes about half an hour, and only requires the purchase of a Nook and a microSD card, and points listeners to a YouTube tutorial on how to root the device. Could this signal a change in how mainstream users see devices like this? Could rooting Android devices like the Nook ever become mainstream?" We ran a story about this in December, and I haven't seen a flood of hacked readers anywhere so I doubt that tablet makers have anything to worry about.

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Re:Time by 0100010001010011 · 2011-03-27 05:22 · Score: 1, Troll

video playback doesn't work quite right, bluetooth doesn't work quite right, but both of them work. By late april it should be a clear winner, and that will make the decision much easier.
And people on here wonder why the general populous just wants an iPad.