Barnes & Noble’s e-reader Nook Color Android Tablet get Angry Birds, million selling video game.
Thanks to the industrious and experimental gadget lovers at the xda-developers, the Nook Color has now indeed been rooted, but the process is still pretty complicated.
Angry Birds is said to perform “as smoothly as on the Galaxy Tab,” but there’s still no proof of that claim
It is believed that it doesn't have the same processor and graphics chip as the iPad (The Nook Color is powered by a 800MHz Cortex A8 processor). It has 512mb of RAM compared to the iPad's 256mb of RAM. Which means that it shouldn't have problems loading heavy websites that the iPad sometimes chokes on.
It runs Android 2.1, so expect Flash support in the Spring when B&N updates it to 2.2 which should make the web browsing experience all the more pleasant, and the battery life that much shorter.
B&N really went all out with the screen. It's really really REALLY nice in person. I believe the screen is IPS, and comparable to the resolution found on the iPad screen but at only half it's physical size this means it has a much higher pixel density.
Unlike the iPad or the Galaxy Tab's screen, the Nook Color's screen is not flush mounted with the bezel. On the flip side it comes with a antiglare coating it does not have a GPS unit, Gyroscope, camera(s), and no 3G connection.
As a Ereader with the added ability to browse the color web, play music/videos, and eventually run selected apps in the future via a promised software update (which B&N has been really good about with the classic Nook) for $250 makes the Nook Color a compelling proposition.
