I pulled the trigger on one of the $120 refurb Nook Colors at B&N's ebay store.

I'm going to run Gingerbread Android off of the micro SD card.

For those of you with a Rooted Nook Color...what are your must have apps, or at least apps worth checking out?

Dolphin browser, I guess. Mobo player for video files. Looks like "Nook Color Tweaks" would be valuable to overclock. What else?

Netflix

Kindle

Angry Birds

I'll ask my son tonight for other recommendations.

Only about 30% of the message was in English!

Get the Amazon App Store.

I jumped on the same deal. Too good a price to pass up. Not sure I'm going to root mine.

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Netflix

Kindle

Angry Birds

I'll ask my son tonight for other recommendations.

I thought B&N already announced Netflix was coming to the Color? Angry Birds is also available without rooting. I like the Kindle idea for those who already have a nice library of Kindle Books.

I got one a few weeks ago for $140. I rooted it with the updated version of Android 2.3, since that seems more stable than Honeycomb 3.0. However, the Android platform seems very clunky (compared to using my wife's iPad), so I've actually gone back to using it with the Nook software. I'm mainly using it to read books (go figure), but I also installed Dropbox on both the Nook and Android parts. There are several free apps from the Nook store which I've installed. They say that the next update will expand the offering.

Evidently, the best Micro-SD cards are Sandisk Class 2 and Class 4. They have the best throughput for the frequent read/write cycles for running Android off a external card. The Class 10 cards actually perform worse.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/28/2011 07:16AM by DavidS.

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sekker
Netflix

Kindle

Angry Birds

I'll ask my son tonight for other recommendations.

I thought B&N already announced Netflix was coming to the Color? Angry Birds is also available without rooting. I like the Kindle idea for those who already have a nice library of Kindle Books.

Netflix is not official yet.

Angry Birds is free if you root.

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Netflix is not official yet.

Angry Birds is free if you root.

Do you mean official as ready to download? That's true.

Paying for a game isn't a hardship. $2.99? Does the paid Nook version have ads? If not, I'd be more than happy to make that tradeoff.