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Xoom and the Android tablet experience

Xoom and the Android tablet experience

Posted Apr 20, 2011 4:00 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165)
In reply to: Xoom and the Android tablet experience by Trelane
Parent article: Xoom and the Android tablet experience

Seems to be about $200 for B/W, $300 for color.


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Xoom and the Android tablet experience

Posted Apr 20, 2011 4:04 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

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.

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