As an Android Tablet, the Nook Color from Barnes & Noble is a pretty impressive device. After all, it is driven by Android 2.1. A big disappointment for many, though, is that the device doesn’t come with an Android Market. This doesn’t mean, however, that the Nook Color can’t run apps from the Android Market. [...]
Like Barnes & Noble, Pocketbook is now taking the tablet path, too, without taking one foot from the eReader world. Its latest creation, the Pocketbook IQ, is part all-purpose Android tablet, part eReader. But is the super-low priced Pocketbook IQ as smart as its name implies? Features – Hardware and Software From a hardware [...]
B&N just announced that the Nook For Android App is now available for download on their site. In a twitter post few days ago B&N replied to one of their followers question, saying the Android for Nook is coming very soon. And they stood behind their words. The new app is “the only Android e-reader [...]
We are all waiting for B&N to follow Amazon and release their Android app. Well this moment might come soonr than we thought. Gadgetell is reporting that according to one Tweet B&N are very close to release their own Android App. A question posted by @dakben: @eBooksBN When do we get an android reader? I [...]
The Amazon’s Kindle app for Android is now live, bringing the usual array of features that existing Kindle users will hold near and dear: access to the Kindle store right from the app, adjustable font sizes, free book samples, and most importantly, wireless bookmark synchronization with your entire stable of Kindle-equipped devices. The app requires Android [...]
Kobo, The manufacturer of the $150 eReader is bringing its platform and bookstore to Android, beating bigger players like Amazon to the game. If you’ve already got a Kobo account, you can just log in and get instant access to your already-purchased books, but if you’re new, you can buy stuff right from your phone; [...]
Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam just confirmed that his company is working on tablets with Google in an interview with the Wall Street Journal. Not many details were revealed. McAdam said tablets are “part of the ‘next big wave of opportunities,’ but didn’t say what OS the Google devices would run, just that Verizon’s “looking at [...]
Android is an open mobile platform for mobile devices that is based on Linux kernel. It includes an operating system and user interface. It allowsusers to tap into Android apps and vice versa. More importantly, it gives users access to a million free, public-domain Google Books. No surprise it’s become the operating software of choice [...]
Armdevices.net is reporting that Gigabyte are working on a new Android based eReader that will be called EB10 (temporary name): Gigabyte are trying to adapt Android for e-ink e-readers, to allow users to install whatever RSS feed reader, news aggregator, any source for ebooks, web browsers and more adapted reading on paper-like screens with WiFi or [...]
Mobile phones have smaller screen than electronic book readers. On the other hand, people tend to carry them around more often. While a small screen may give you eyestrain after long period of reading, mobile phones offer you the opportunity to read at any moment without lugging books or without carrying a larger or heavier [...]