Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies has made it his mission to suss out the best smartphone, tablet, HDTV, and multimedia displays from the worst with his Display Technology Shoot-Out series. Here, the best of the tablet readers fight.
Time is getting ready to push all 21 of their magazines onto every tablet they can get to. That will include the iPad, Android tablets, the Touchpad and Nook Color. The Kindle, strangely, and Playbook, less strangely, aren’t invited. [AllThingsD]
Messing with boot ROMs is a painful pile of headaches that nobody wants to pick up. But it’d be nice to swap the Nook Color’s software for something more versatile – say, Android 2.3. Just pop in this MicroSD card.
Joining Kindle readers, Barnes & Nobile Nook readers can hit up NYTimes.com and get unlimited access to the paper, provided they have a paid-up subscription. The Nook will be switched on at the Grey Lady in the coming weeks, but if you want to take a squizz at the site for free, there are still ways! [ZDNet]
Have you faithfully refused to jailbreak your Nook Color, never mind that you couldn’t access those handy apps from the Android Market? Stick to your guns awhile longer: Barnes & Noble is launching their version of a Nook Android app store this April, along with Flash support for the device. [CNET]
The best Android tablet is the Android tablet that can run Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’. And I guess that means the Nook Color, which has just received a port of Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Which you can install. Right now. Well, if you have a Nook colour, that is.
Want to read Kindle ebooks on a colour screen? One man rooted his NookColor (which runs Android), and loaded on the Kindle app. You can follow the instructions and do it too, if you dare. [BlogKindle via CrunchGear]
