The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet may be approaching its second birthday, but the 7 inch tablet is still a pretty good device with a decent display, a reasonably fast processor, and the ability to work as a full-fledged Android tablet if you install CyanogenMod or another custom ROM. B&N doesn’t sell the tablet directly to shoppers anymore. But you…
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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet may be showing its age when compared with newer, faster tablets with higher-resolution displays like the NOOK HD. But B&N’s 7 inch tablet from 2011 keeps learning new tricks. A few months ago developers ported an unofficial build of CyanogenMod 10.1 to run on the NOOK Tablet, bringing Android 4.2 to the aging device….
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CES 2013 is about to start up, which means its time for me to put my mobile reporting kit through the paces. From Sunday through Thursday I’ll be running from press event to press event, wandering the show floor, meeting with consumer electronics companies, and somehow trying to find time to write about all of that and post pictures and…
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Barnes & Noble has pretty much tossed aside the NOOK Tablet in order to push the newer NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ tablets. But the tablet the company released in 2011 is still a pretty capable little device with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel IPS display, a 1 GHz TI OMAP 4 dual core processor, and up to…
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Now that Barnes & Noble is pushing the NOOK HD and NOOK HD+ tablets, the company is selling off its older tablets at ridiculously low prices. Just over a year ago the NOOK Tablet went on sale for $199. Today you can get a refurbished model for $90. The company is selling of refurbished NOOK Tablets through its eBay store….
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Now that Barnes & Noble is busy selling its new NOOK HD tablets, you can find some pretty great deals on last year’s models. Today 1SaleADay is offering a 16GB NOOK Tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1 GHz TI OMAP 4430 dual core processor for $100. Here are some of the day’s best…
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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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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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Amazon and Kobo have already introduced their 2012 model Android tablets, but Barnes & Noble is still selling last year’s model for $179 and up. The good news is that means you can find them really cheap from time to time. At the moment, B&N is selling refurbished 16GB NOOK Tablets through its eBay store for just $134. That’s a…
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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet is a 7 inch tablet and eReader that ships with B&N’s custom version of Android. But folks have been rooting the tablet and installing their own custom builds of Android on the device since shortly after the NOOK Tablet hit the streets last year. In July we saw the first builds of CyanogenMod 10…
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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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It’s been less than a week since Google released the source code for Android 4.1 Jelly Bean — and independent developers have been hard at work, bringing Google’s latest software to existing devices including the Acer Iconia Tab A500 and Amazon Kindle Fire. Now there are early builds of Jelly Bean for a few more devices, including one phone that’s…
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Less than a week after Barnes & Noble released software version 1.4.3 for the NOOK Tablet, the developers behind an unofficial port of CyanogenMod 9 for the NOOK tablet have updated their software as well. As you could probably guess from the version number, CyanogenMod Alpha 0.05.1 is still a work in progress. There’s no official support for Netflix, YouTube…
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Barnes & Noble recently added over 100 comic book issues from DC comics to the NOOK Store, allowing NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet users to purchase and read Batman, Superman, and other comics on their tablets. The company also released a minor software update adding zoom view in comics and graphics novels, 2-page mode in landscape for viewing PDF and…
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