Barnes & Noble Nook Color my next tablet
There are a lot of Android tablets out this Holiday season and some of them are very cheap (just over $100 bucks for one I saw). These super cheap ones are just that, a cheap plastic shell with a cheap blurry screen. One that caught my eye that was not cheaply made, but still only $250, was the Nook Color. It has the same type of screen as the iPad but even a higher dots per inch (to be fair, it's screen is much smaller than the iPad). Also to be fair, the Nook is not considered a full tablet, but, rather just an e-reader with a few extra apps thrown in. Those apps include a web browser, Pandora radio (a favorite) and a few others thrown into an "extras" folder. The way it ships allows it to be just fine out of the box, however, there was an intriguing twist last week when it was revealed that with just a moderately simple hack you can install other Android apps (allowing the device to become a full tablet not just a single use reader)... This sealed the deal for me! ...