Posted Apr 20, 2011 4:04 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
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The black and white (eink) and colour Nooks are entirely different devices. The eink device is pretty special purpose - people have written applications for it, but they're incredibly limited by the hardware constraints and there's no terribly useful way to run unmodified Android applications. The Color has a much more capable CPU and a full touchscreen, so it's entirely capable of running a full Android tablet setup.