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I do, and while you have to assume every statement I make has a silent "for the price" catted to the end, I am really at awe with it and now use it much more th
by muhfuhkuh 16y ago
I do, and while you have to assume every statement I make has a silent "for the price" catted to the end, I am really at awe with it and now use it much more than my iPad 1.
The smaller form factor really shines for reading ebooks, email, and cool feed readers like pulse. It's super responsive for all 2D tasks (reading, movies, games like Angry Birds) and you can hold it in one hand for extended periods unlike the iPad, which gets a little fatiguing after a half-hour or so.
The eMail and gmail apps are great, Dolphin Browser HD and Firefox are good alternatives to the standard browser in Gingerbread, and it Tweets well enough. Youtube app plays well. Flash mobile is... well, it's flash on a mobile device (warts and all). Load all fantastic flash ads on demand!
The processor is sporty (not fast), that is unless/until you root it and overclock it. I've got CPU governor set to "performance" and have it set at 600 MHz minimum and 1.1 GHz
max. That said, Angry Birds ad-free plays silky smooth; with ads, it's a slog, but that's with almost any android device I've seen aside from my dual-core, nVidia-powered Atrix 4G phone. The overclocking produces no more heat or detrimental effects that I can perceive, so I believe they underpower the CPU by default.
The Omap SoC has a decent graphics card that can play, for example, Backbreaker Football in 3D without any jitter and few (if any) dropped frames at all. It runs quadrant (synthetic benchmark) at an overall score of 2100+ and a 26.4 fps on neocore.
It's a daily driver for me. The screen is great, it's super portable yet more substantial than a smartphone (especially for reading/surfing), and I've been actually reading more now than ever (split between nook's app and the kindle app).
- crocowhile 16y agoHow's battery life to be used the way you use it?
- muhfuhkuh 16y agoI can get through an entire weekend day of playing games, getting myself lost in wikipedia, and reading/surfing/youtubing before it gets to about 30% left. I'd say it lasts maybe 6-7 hours between recharges with heavy use. If you turn off wifi and crank down the brightness of the screen, you can pull off more, but I rock wifi always-on when I'm at home. Standby drains about 10-12% battery in a 24 hour period I reckon.
- dabeeeenster 16y agoAre you running a custom ROM or just the standard one but with root?
- muhfuhkuh 16y agoI'm on a custom phiredmod version of Cyanogenmod 7, which is 2.3 Gingerbread.
- mitjak 16y agoDo you find the screen and its resolution to be large enough for reading non-eBook formatted books (PDFs, primarily)?
- muhfuhkuh 16y agoI use ezPDF (was free on Amazon App Store, but only 99 cents normally), and it renders graphics-heavy retro gaming magazines perfectly! I do have to zoom to read some small text, but I had to pretty much do that with GoodReader on the iPad anyway.
- mitjak 16y agoThis is the average font size of the PDFs I read: http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.pdf http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/lehre/WS03/alpi/lambda.pdf Would something like that read fine? Apologies for a pile of questions: Nook Color isn't available here in Canada, and I was thinking of taking a bus trip to Buffalo to grab one of these if the Nook is worth it.
- muhfuhkuh 15y agoJust tested it. Reads fine in ezPDF and Adobe Reader for Android (Adobe even will "reflow" text so that you can size text up for readability, but on the downside the pretty typesetting and formula layouts are lost when you do that, so ymmv). You can zoom to view or even set it landscape mode and it'll adjust to fit width, which reads really well for bad eyes.