The Barnes & Noble NOOK Color was the first popular 7 inch Android tablet to sell for under $250. It went on sale in the fall of 2010, and while the tablet features a highly customized version of Android designed to work with B&N’s app and book stores, it didn’t take hackers long to figure out how to load custom…
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It’s been almost two and a half years since Barnes & Noble released the NOOK Color, and it’s been over a year since the company stopped offering any significant software updates for the 7 inch tablet. But just because the NOOK Color has been discontinued doesn’t mean you can’t teach an old color eReader new tricks. The NookieDevs team has…
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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Color is a 7 inch tablet with a 1024 x 600 pixel display, an 800 MHz TI OMAP 3 processor, and 8GB of storage. While it ships with a custom version of Google Android designed for use with the B&N book store, folks have been tweaking this tablet for 2 years, coaxing it into running…
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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Color may be starting to show its age, with an 800 MHz single core processor. But B&N’s first Android-based tablet still has a pretty great screen, long battery life, and a case designed to be easy to hold during long reading sessions. Today CowBoom is selling pre-owned models for just $65. Keep in mind, these…
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Starting November 4th, 2012 you’ll be able to pick up a new B&N NOOK Color for $139 or a NOOK Tablet for $159. Barnes & Noble is cutting prices of its first two Android tablets to help set them apart from the NOOK HD which has a starting price of $199. Update: Prices have fallen even lower as Barnes &…
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Sure the B&N NOOK HD will be available in a few weeks for $199 and up. But if you’re looking to save a few bucks, you can buy B&N’s first 7 inch Android tablet for the price of a GooPad mini. The bookseller is selling refurbished NOOK Color tablets in its eBay store for just $99. Here are some of…
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Almost exactly two years after Barnes & Noble first released the NOOK Color, a team of independent developers have released an unofficial build of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean for the 7 inch tablet. Update: This is now an official build. You can download the latest builds directly from the CyanogenMod download page. The NOOK Color features a 7 inch, 1024…
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Barnes & Noble may be launching new tablets in November. But the company isn’t ready to discontinue last year’s model yet. You’ll be able to pick up the NOOK Tablet even after the NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ hit the streets in a little over a month. The company is finally getting ready to retire its first tablet, the NOOK…
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Sure, next-gen tablets and eReaders are all the rage these days. But that means you can get a pretty great deal on older models. Refurbished Barnes & Noble NOOK Color tablets are going for just $120. That’s not a bad price for a device with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, an 800 MHz TI OMAP 3630 processor,…
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Barnes & Noble is knocking $20 to $50 off the prices of its NOOK tablets running Google Android software. You can now pick up a NOOK Color for $149, an 8GB NOOK Tablet for $179, or a 16GB model for $199. The price cuts come the better part of a year after B&N introduced the tablets. But it’s likely that…
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When Barnes & Noble introduced the Nook Color then the Nook Tablet, they each cost far less than most slates on the market. The bookseller partially achieved this by leaving out some hardware, such as cameras, Bluetooth, and GPS radios. Despite this lack, it’s now possible to use both Nook tabs as GPS navigation devices. This week the $4.99 ForeverMap…
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Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words… and a video is worth a few thousand more. If you’re trying to sell fireworks, you’re selling a box of sticks with the promise that they’ll blow up in interesting ways. A picture on the box sort of shows what you’re really buying, but a video does a better job. So the…
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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Color may not have a dual core processor or a microphone, but that’s about all that’s separating this 7 inch Android tablet aimed at readers from the newer NOOK Tablet. Barnes & Noble normally sells the NOOK Color for $169, but the retailer has just dropped the price to $149, making this one of the…
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Barnes & Noble has announced it’s creating a new subsidiary which will house the company’s digital and college businesses. That means that the NOOK eReaders and tablets and digital book divisions won’t be under the same roof as B&N’s nearly 700 book stores in the US — but NOOK eReaders will still be tied to the company’s retail stores. In…
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It’s not uncommon to find refurbished NOOK Color tablets for $149 or less… but today Barnes & Noble is going way further. You can now pick up a refurbished NOOK Color for $129 from the B&N eBay store… or add a NOOK Simple Touch eReader for just $20 more. The NOOK Color has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel…
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