Nook Tablet update breaks 3rd party app installs
The original Nook Color was a veritable toy box for Android modders, and remains a popular platform for custom ROMs and other Android tablet modifications. Barnes & Noble’s newer Nook Tablet has...
View ArticleNOOK Tablet update killed root and side-loading apps — here’s a fix
One of the biggest reasons many Android fans bought the NOOK Tablet aside from the great hardware and eReader capabilities is the fact that we can side-load apps, root, and install 3rd party ROM’s —...
View ArticleLow prices boost Android’s tablet market share to 40%
The free market, in all its terrible beauty, is Apple’s most friendly enemy. After 18 months of being effectively the only tablet game in town (as a function of sales, anyway) the Cupertino giant’s...
View ArticleDev shows you how to block Nook Tablet OTA updates
If you have, a B&N Nook Tablet that you have some custom stuff on and you don’t want to have to worry that an OTA update will come along and ruin your set up, check this out. A developer going by...
View ArticleReaderDock readies Docking Station for Nook Color and Nook Tablet
before a few months ago, no one seemed interested in model-specific docks for anything more than the iPad, as far as tablets were concerned. But now more than 40% of tablets sold run Android, and a...
View ArticleHardware mod bypasses Nook Tablet’s locked bootloader
This one is not for the faint of heart. After Barnes & Noble released the upgraded Nook Tablet in November, early buyers were surprised and angry to find a locked bootloader and a mere 1GB of...
View ArticleUS tablet ownership almost doubles over the holidays
Tablets were the hot ticket item during the holiday season in the United States, and according to the Pew Research Center, the demand drove adoption to impressive new heights. The respected firm said...
View ArticleNew Nook Tablet root method requires just a MicroSD card and a reboot
The Nook Tablet has become notoriously difficult to mod, thanks in no small part to Barnes & Noble’s decision to ship it with a locked bootloader. Various software updates have closed root methods...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble says new Nook device coming this spring
Barnes & Noble is making a new Android-based Nook e-reader! Huzzah! The latter isn’t exactly news – there’s always a successor to the current model in the pipeline. But according to an in-depth...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble introduces $199 Nook Tablet with 8GB of storage
If you’ve been looking at the increasingly crowded cheap 7-inch reader/tablet market, there’s a new option at the all-important $199 price point. Barnes & Noble just lowered the Nook Tablet to a...
View ArticleNOOK Tablet internal storage partitioning coming this March
Barnes and Noble has made a few changes to their popular NOOK tablet line. This morning officially announcing they’ll start selling a slightly lower model with only 8GB of internal storage to better...
View ArticleNook Tablet gets an early CM9 port, despite Gingerbread kernel
While the original Nook Color was (and is!) a robust platform for aftermarket hacking, Barnes & Noble’s decision to make the upgraded Nook Tablet with a locked bootloader has caused some headaches....
View ArticleNook e-readers and tablets may be coming to the UK soon
The Barnes & Noble Nook line of e-readers and its more media-friendly Nook Color and Nook Tablet entries have gained a lot of fans here in the US, but in international markets they’re basically a...
View ArticleNOOK Tablet CM9 port gets updated to Android 4.0.4 ICS
The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet is seeing another update today, although an unofficial one from the lovely developers and hackers of XDA Developers. Earlier in March we reported that Android 4.0 Ice...
View ArticleSamsung attacks – shows why their Galaxy Tab 2 is the best budget tablet
Samsung is at it again today with another one of their awesome comparison graphs. This time around they aren’t comparing the Note 10.1 to the new iPad, instead they are showing why their new and...
View ArticleMicrosoft pays $300m for a stake in Barnes & Noble’s ebooks
Business makes some strange bedfellows, and somewhere in the patent suit that Microsoft lobbed at Barnes & Noble a corporate romance bloomed. Now the Redmond software giant has invested a whopping...
View ArticleFuture Barnes & Noble Nooks coming with NFC
So, what’s the one feature missing from Barnes & Noble’s Nook hardware? If you said “Ice Cream Sandwich”, you’re… well you’re right, but not in this context. If you said “a camera for web chat”…....
View ArticleN2Acards to add Jelly Bean dual booting to Nook Tablet
If you own a Nook Tablet, we have some good news for you. N2Acards is launching the ability to dual-boot Nook Tablet devices with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. They are offering two options; the ability to...
View ArticleNook Tablet gets a price drop to better compete with the Nexus 7
With the folks from Barnes & Noble recently launching their new NOOK HD and HD+ tablets at a competitive price point to fight against some other popular 7-inch tablets, they’ve now lowered the...
View ArticleNook Tablet gets Android 4.2 by way of an unofficial CM10.1 release
The Nook Tablet is no stranger to CyanogenMod. In the past we have seen builds for the tablet, and as of today we have word of an unofficial CM10.1 build for the Nook. And for those of you who have...
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