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Nice.
The awesome thing about the NookColor is that it can boot ROMs straight off the sdcard. So you can pop in the card to run a Honeycomb ROM (for example) and then remove it to just use rooted stock or any other ROM.
Right now I have a rooted stock ROM with all the Google apps and Zeam launcher. There's a popular ROM called Nookie Froyo, and an early port of CyanogenMod 7 (Gingerbread), but not all the features are working on those two yet as I understand it.
I'll probably try and boot a Honeycomb ROM off the sdcard next week when I have a bit more free time. I'm hesistant so far though and the reason for that is because the current Honeycomb ROMs are all hacked together using the SDK. They also don't have the tablet specific versions of the core Google apps like the new 3D YouTube and Music apps and the tablet edition of the Market (which looks totally different from the phone version as you can see here
The Honeycomb source code is expected to be dropped into the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) code-base imminently, and after that happens we will see some proper Honeycomb ROMs. I might just wait for that to happen. Depends how impatient I get. Given that I spent 10-15 minutes playing with XOOM last week, I'm in no rush to start poking around Honeycomb. I know what's there and how it all works.
For me the benefit of the NC, or any 7" tablet, is the portability and the usage as an e-reader. I use the Amazon Kindle app and it's awesome. I've already purchased 5 books on it and I've already probably read more using it than I have read actual books in the last 12 months or so. A 10" tablet would be more handy for other use cases in the future, but I'm happy with the size of the NC.
Did you take advantage of the Barnes & Noble eBay offer? They had a coupon for their eBay store where you could get the NC for $199.99 rather than $250.
The awesome thing about the NookColor is that it can boot ROMs straight off the sdcard. So you can pop in the card to run a Honeycomb ROM (for example) and then remove it to just use rooted stock or any other ROM.
Right now I have a rooted stock ROM with all the Google apps and Zeam launcher. There's a popular ROM called Nookie Froyo, and an early port of CyanogenMod 7 (Gingerbread), but not all the features are working on those two yet as I understand it.
I'll probably try and boot a Honeycomb ROM off the sdcard next week when I have a bit more free time. I'm hesistant so far though and the reason for that is because the current Honeycomb ROMs are all hacked together using the SDK. They also don't have the tablet specific versions of the core Google apps like the new 3D YouTube and Music apps and the tablet edition of the Market (which looks totally different from the phone version as you can see here
The Honeycomb source code is expected to be dropped into the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) code-base imminently, and after that happens we will see some proper Honeycomb ROMs. I might just wait for that to happen. Depends how impatient I get. Given that I spent 10-15 minutes playing with XOOM last week, I'm in no rush to start poking around Honeycomb. I know what's there and how it all works.
For me the benefit of the NC, or any 7" tablet, is the portability and the usage as an e-reader. I use the Amazon Kindle app and it's awesome. I've already purchased 5 books on it and I've already probably read more using it than I have read actual books in the last 12 months or so. A 10" tablet would be more handy for other use cases in the future, but I'm happy with the size of the NC.
Did you take advantage of the Barnes & Noble eBay offer? They had a coupon for their eBay store where you could get the NC for $199.99 rather than $250.
Yeah, I want it primarily as a reader to be honest. Ive just started another degree at University and have a ton of text books I just got in PDF format.
For the record, I graduated Bachelor of Music Industry last year and am doing a Bachelor of Communication (Media) now, getting a lot of credits from previous degree so thought why not? Majoring in Cinema Studies and Mobile Media.
For the record, I graduated Bachelor of Music Industry last year and am doing a Bachelor of Communication (Media) now, getting a lot of credits from previous degree so thought why not? Majoring in Cinema Studies and Mobile Media.
LMFAO at this. The G1 is the phone that just won't die. Love it.
HTC Magic / T-Mobile G1 gets Honeycomb port, Android past and future fused together (video) -- Engadget
HTC Magic / T-Mobile G1 gets Honeycomb port, Android past and future fused together (video) -- Engadget
that's mad.
apparently Gingerbread for the Galaxy S will not have many aesthetic changes. it'll all look the same pretty much with TouchWiz 3.0.
I hate HTC Sense so much, its so horrible on the HTC Wildfire. Completely makes an intuitive system (android) into something of a guess what the symbol means and does guessing user-interaction thingy thing. which is annoying.
apparently Gingerbread for the Galaxy S will not have many aesthetic changes. it'll all look the same pretty much with TouchWiz 3.0.
I hate HTC Sense so much, its so horrible on the HTC Wildfire. Completely makes an intuitive system (android) into something of a guess what the symbol means and does guessing user-interaction thingy thing. which is annoying.
Casey or other knowledgeable fellows. When using Titanium backup, do I need to move the data to my PC or is the titanium backup folder left intact when changing roms?
I want to try a new rom, but want to move my data back afterwards. It seems to me that all I need to do is go to the market and install titanium backup adn click restore. But just want to check.
I want to try a new rom, but want to move my data back afterwards. It seems to me that all I need to do is go to the market and install titanium backup adn click restore. But just want to check.
Well, it's relatively stable, but the problem like I said before is that it's hacked together from the SDK and not built from the Honeycomb source code which hasn't yet been dropped into the AOSP. And the only actual Honeycomb/tablet-built google app is Gmail. The other google apps like YouTube, Maps, Gtalk (with video chat), Market are still the phone versions. I think that on the phone version of the Market you can't even see the category of apps that are made for tablets, either. Although there's only 30-40 tablet-specific apps right now.
Having said that - given that the XOOM is both out and rooted, I'm sure someone must have ripped the new apps by now and shared them on XDA. But you'll most likely have to flash them from Clockwork Recovery, which brings it's own set of issues. I tried flashing it in order to make a Nandroid backup and then found that the NC wouldn't boot into anything BUT recovery. So I had to download and flash another file in order to remove Clockwork and put the stock recovery back to allow it to boot back into the OS.
I mean, it's not a MASSIVE deal given that NC can boot a whole ROM from the SD and have a different one on the internal memory. But, I think I'll still wait for a real Honeycomb ROM built from the AOSP source code before I try it. When's your NC arriving?
Having said that - given that the XOOM is both out and rooted, I'm sure someone must have ripped the new apps by now and shared them on XDA. But you'll most likely have to flash them from Clockwork Recovery, which brings it's own set of issues. I tried flashing it in order to make a Nandroid backup and then found that the NC wouldn't boot into anything BUT recovery. So I had to download and flash another file in order to remove Clockwork and put the stock recovery back to allow it to boot back into the OS.
I mean, it's not a MASSIVE deal given that NC can boot a whole ROM from the SD and have a different one on the internal memory. But, I think I'll still wait for a real Honeycomb ROM built from the AOSP source code before I try it. When's your NC arriving?
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