The Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor eBook Reader continues to prove popular with hackers looking for cheap Android tablets. Out of the box the NOOKcolor runs Android 2.1 with a custom user interface designed for purchasing and reading books and magazines. But with a little tweaking you can enable support for all sorts of other Android […]
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Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb for the NOOKcolor now available for download
Over the past few days xda-developers forum member deeper-blue has made quite a bit of progress getting a pre-release version of Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb to work on the Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor. While the project is still a work in progress, today he released the tools needed to install the OS, which means anyone […]
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Android 3.0 Honeycomb on the NOOKcolor: Now with video
You know how we got the first photos of Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb running on the Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor the other day? Well if static images weren’t painting the picture for you, there are a couple of videos showing the OS running on the eBook reader/tablet. This is still an early build, patched together […]
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Google Android Honeycomb ported to the NOOKcolor: Doesn’t really work yet
The good news is that the first version of Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb has been ported to an existing Android tablet. Xda-developers forum member deeper-blue combined data from the preview SDK Google released this week with a kernel for the NOOKcolor eBook reader to get the software up and running on the tablet. The bad […]
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Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor firmware update brings pinch-to-zoom to the browser
Barnes & Noble has released a firmware update for the NOOKcolor. The 7 inch eBook Reader also happens to be a pretty decent Android tablet, but if you haven’t rooted the device or replaced the firmware, you might want to grab version 1.1 of the NOOKcolor software, because among other things it: Adds support for […]
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NOOKcolor overclocked to 950 MHz and beyond
The Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor is turning out to be an Android tablet hacker’s dream. While the $250 tablet is sold as a color eBook reader, it turns out you can root the Android operating system, install third party apps, update the Android OS, and even install Ubuntu Linux. Now it looks like you can […]
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Ubuntu Linux ported to the NOOKcolor
Not content to simply root your NOOKcolor eBook Reader and run vanilla Android on it? How about Ubuntu Linux? Xda-developers forum member devastatorx has posted step by step instructions for convincing your NOOKcolor to boot an Ubuntu image stored on an SD card. The process doesn’t actually replace Android with Ubuntu, but rather allows you […]
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Barnes & Noble auto-resetting some rooted NOOKcolor devices
The Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor is a $250 color eBook reader which also happens to make a pretty decent 7 inch Android tablet if you root the system to open it up to third party apps. There’s just one problem: Barnes & Noble doesn’t officially support rooted devices, and some users are reporting that they’ve […]
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Automated root installer for the NOOKcolor now available
People have been rooting the NOOKcolor since shortly after Barnes & Noble launched the Android powered 7 inch color eBook reader. But up until recently you had to know your way around a command line to get things done. Now a member of the xda-developers community has released a tool which automates the process. It’s […]
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How to install Android Market on the NOOKcolor
The NOOKcolor is a 7 inch eBook Reader that ships with a highly customized version of Google Android 2.1 preloaded. Out of the box, it only runs a handful of apps including Barnes & Noble’s eBook software and a web browser. But we’ve seen hackers working their hardest to turn this $250 device into a […]
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NOOKcolor hacked to run Android 2.2.1
Barnes & Noble may be positioning the NOOKcolor as an eBook reader, but it’s shaping up to be a pretty versatile Android tablet for $250. Earlier this week, we saw the first third party apps make their way onto a rooted NOOKcolor, and yesterday Barnes & Noble released the official software developer kit so that […]
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Barnes & Noble releases SDK for the NOOKcolor
Sure, if you really want to run third party Android apps on your Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor eBook reader (and tablet), you can just go ahead and root the device. But if you’re the less adventurous sort, it looks like new apps could be on the horizon anyway. Barnes & Noble has launched a software developer kit […]