If anyone is shopping for a Nook Color...

[SunnyD]

Barnes & Noble is selling them on eBay Daily Deals for $199 shipped.

Brand new, in box. You should have 14 days to go in store and buy the extended service plan as well.

 

[soulcougher73]

Must....resist...temptation...

 

[cheezy321]

So tempting. Man i wanna root one of these!

I wonder if they will drop price once iPad 2 comes out...

 

[gorcorps]

=O

I want one too. I didn't use my wifi Nook much though... seems like that would have been a waste. Bah, right when I already started spending all my money on a PC build! I'll skip this one, but I'm not happy about it.

 

[poofyhairguy]

This will be the best $200 tablet for a long time. I have had mine for a week and now that I have it hacked up just how I want its a great little device...

 

[bigrash]

Just bought a b&w Nook last week for $99 (recertified from b&n). Really wanted the Nook color, but figure I wanted a reader with e-ink. But this $200 deal for the color is awesome.

Edit: I guess this deal expired? I see it for $249 now on ebay.

 

[ZetaEpyon]

Just bought a b&w Nook last week for $99 (recertified from b&n). Really wanted the Nook color, but figure I wanted a reader with e-ink. But this $200 deal for the color is awesome.

Edit: I guess this deal expired? I see it for $249 now on ebay.

From the page:

Use eBay coupon code* CBARNESDD at Checkout for $50 off

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Just bought a b&w Nook last week for $99 (recertified from b&n). Really wanted the Nook color, but figure I wanted a reader with e-ink. But this $200 deal for the color is awesome.

Edit: I guess this deal expired? I see it for $249 now on ebay.

It's a code for 50 bucks off. Right under the Bold title.

 

[bigrash]

From the page:

It's a code for 50 bucks off. Right under the Bold title.

lol. thanks. facepalm to myself.

 

[bigrash]

This will be the best $200 tablet for a long time. I have had mine for a week and now that I have it hacked up just how I want its a great little device...

So which version of Android do you normally install when you hack it?

 

[SunnyD]

So which version of Android do you normally install when you hack it?

Loaded question there.

Hack #1 - simply root it and then sideload the market and other apps to it. The Nook Color runs eclair (2.1).

Hack #2 - NookieFroyo. 3 ways to do it... first and easiest way is to dd the image to a microsd card and run directly off the microsd not touching the stock firmware. Second is to flash it to eMMC (embedded flash) and run it as your stock OS. 3rd way is to flash a dual boot bootloader and run both stock and froyo side by side. Personally, option #1 is the easiest (provided you get yourself a decently fast microsd card).

Hack #3 - Honeycomb preview image. Again, runnable but slow off microsd, or flashable to eMMC, or dual bootable as per #2.

Hack #4 - CyanogenMod 7 nightly builds. Currently requires you to flash to eMMC, but is possible to set up under dual boot as well. CM7 is a work in progress and is buggy, but usable. There is currently no way to set it up on a sd card.

 

[poofyhairguy]

So which version of Android do you normally install when you hack it?

The best version now is the Froyo version. I use this one specifically:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=938200

It is better than CM7 because the video backend is still in development in CM7 (aka Youtube is broken in CM7 and won't be fixed super soon). It is better than rooted stock because you get at Flash, Firefox, and other great apps that don't run well on stock. It is better than Honeycomb, because Honeycomb currently runs pretty damn slow on a Nook Color, even when overclocked. I expect this to get fixed once a native port can be released.

Add the softkey version of this theme:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944278

And you have a stable, nice looking and easy to manage daily tablet. I have been encoding video in Handbrake for the Nook Color Froyo, and they look great. In fact I like the Android Nook app about a million times better than the default Nook app, because I don't read books and its only usefulness to me was page flip animations (to prove to spectators used to that trick on a iPad that my hacked Nook IS a full function tablet) and the default Nook software lacked that. Kinda sad honestly, B&N needs to get its act together...

 

[Lumathix]

Nice deal.
My wife and I both have these and they get used daily.
Neither one of us have rooted.

 

[TwiceOver]

I bit. $200 and just the size I was looking for. See if the hack is worth it.

 

[sciwizam]

What's the return policy on this thing? Can I return it instore or do I have to ship it back?

EDIT: Looks like it's ship it back.

 

[gorcorps]

Okay, I think I've gotten over wanting this so bad... for now.

 

[MagickMan]

I bit. Dammit.

 

[Pliablemoose]

LOL, gotta love B&N...

a $200 DIY Android tablet

The best part is the teardown, and this:

 

[PhoKingGuy]

LOL, gotta love B&N...

a $200 DIY Android tablet

The best part is the teardown, and this:

I dont get it

 

[Pliablemoose]

I dont get it

"Alex, Who builds iPhones and iPads?"

 

[MagickMan]

"Alex, Who builds iPhones and iPads?"

Umm, Foxconn is the electronics OEM for pretty much everything.

 

[Pliablemoose]

Umm, Foxconn is the electronics OEM for pretty much everything.

True, but the nook color prices are close to craptablet prices, but have decent build quality....

 

[senseamp]

Thanks, in for one. Was looking for something for the bedroom. Is there any way to get Flash working on it?

 

[MagickMan]

True, but the nook color prices are close to craptablet prices, but have decent build quality....

Yup. They're definitely built to a higher spec, it's closer to the iPad in quality than just about anything else out there. You have to figure, if B&N can sell these for $200, how much cheaper can the $400+ tablets be sold for? Early tablet owners are taking it high and dry, and there's really no reason to pay those ridiculous prices.

Put down your two bills, root the thing, and you have what people are waiting for. It seems like a no-brainer to me.

 

[Aikouka]

Gah, I am tempted, but since I don't own an Android phone, it will be somewhat worthless as I have a huge amount of iOS apps . Can you make this thing run iOS?