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B&N Releases Nook Tablet To Rival Amazon Fire
jfruhlinger writes "It looks like there's competition in the low-cost media tablet space — and that Barnes & Noble is determined not to go the way of Borders. Barnes & Noble today announced the Nook Tablet, an Android-based tablet with better specs than the Kindle Fire (though it's also $50 pricier). The Nook Tablet will allow Hulu and Netflix streaming and sideloading of content, but won't have access to the general-purpose Android App Store."
It should be noted that Apple is publicly happy about the Amazon Fire and its rivals because it further contributes to Android fragmentation.
Um, comparing a third-party firmware for the original Nook with the stock features of this new one isn't valid.
The better question is - Assuming that they don't lock the bootloader this time around, what will this new device be like with CM9?
If I didn't already have a Tab 10.1, I'd go for this... If the flexibility of this device is even close to that of its predecessor, it's going to be a beast with CM9. (It may get CM7 in the interim, but that's probably only going to be short-term.)
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Which color eInk display are you talking about, exactly? As far as I'm aware, there aren't any commercially available right now.