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Xoom and the Android tablet experienceXoom and the Android tablet experiencePosted Apr 20, 2011 2:38 UTC (Wed) by alogghe (subscriber, #6661)In reply to: Xoom and the Android tablet experience by Trelane Parent article: Xoom and the Android tablet experience
A rooted Nook Color is generally excellent.
The screen is 1024x600 and its 380grams instead of the too heavy 630gram+ of the iPad and wannabees. Most of the eink devices are 250grams I believe.
Beautiful screen.
Snappy and responsive ui. Enough acceleration to make it pleasant to browser and read.
Cyanogen has a replace softkey setup to make up for the lack of a back and menu button on the hardware. Its quite nice.
Firefox mobile is a good to great experience on it.
Highly recommended.
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Xoom and the Android tablet experience Posted Apr 20, 2011 18:07 UTC (Wed) by khc (subscriber, #45209) [Link]
Has cyanogen fixed the sleep power consumption problem and video problem yet? I was going to flash to cyanogen but stopped after reading about them.
Nook Color & CyanogenMod Posted Apr 21, 2011 0:14 UTC (Thu) by knobunc (subscriber, #4678) [Link]
They have fixed the video problem. You still need to encode to whatever the chip supports (until they get the closed drivers working on the NC that allow full resolution). But that's the same as before CM.
I think the sleep power consumption problem is not fixed. However, I have had no trouble with the battery life of my Nook Color running CM 7 release. It is snappy, pretty, and the soft-button bar at the bottom works really well. It may no go to the lowest sleep state, but at whatever state it goes to, it still lasts for days without a charge. Remember that the screen sucks down tons of power... so if that sucker is off then it doesn't drain that much power.
Nook Color & CyanogenMod Posted Apr 21, 2011 21:12 UTC (Thu) by khc (subscriber, #45209) [Link]
I don't encode much video myself actually, as long as youtube works I am happy.
If it lasts for days without a charge, I may give it a try. I was reading that it needs charging everyday. I already do that for my phone, I don't want to remember to recharge another device everyday.
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