New NOOK Tablet update described as making “minor system enhancements” actually blocks sideloading
0. phoneArena posted on 20 Dec 2011, 09:33
Well, it seems that Barnes & Noble wants to take back control of what’s put into the NOOK Tablet – that’s because a new firmware update available right now seemingly shuts down app sideloading completely. Needless to say, that’s a big bummer for a lot of people...
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1. imkyle posted on 20 Dec 2011, 09:38 2 0
I originally bought the Fire and returned it for this. Now your telling me the extra $50 I spent for the gig of ram is going to be surpassed by the inability to side load apps? Barnes... very disappointing. I may get my Kindle back.
2. Jayray78 posted on 20 Dec 2011, 09:54 3 0
I just finished reading an article about how the KF is getting an update that breaks root. Plenty of comments were," This is why the Nook is better" Who's laughing now?
4. MalakiMills posted on 20 Dec 2011, 10:54 1 0
I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw the title to this. Haha perfect.
3. Birds posted on 20 Dec 2011, 09:57 2 0
f**k you Barnes & Nobles! Peanut-butter E-bay time!!!!!
6. droiddomination posted on 20 Dec 2011, 13:00 1 0
by an hp and cyanogen it, or bb playbook. these kiddy tablets just dont' fly with me.
8. WirelessCon posted on 20 Dec 2011, 13:29 0 0
Which one is better without hacking, Kindle Fire or the new Nook Tablet?
9. AndroidShiz posted on 21 Dec 2011, 13:13 0 0
BUY AN HTC FLYER PEOPLE! This is why I bought one. It's ONLY 299 at BestBuy every day. I can't believe it doesn't get more attention. I have access to Amazon, Barnes, and of course the regular app Market and all the other goodies of Google. Because it has a GB of ram, the screen has awesome resolution that looks better and clearer than both of those. It has a rear and front facing camera, Bluetooth, GPS, etc. I installed Swype, (which flat rocks on a tablet btw). And even though it only has a 1.5Ghz processor, it runs at dual core speeds. It's much smoother, faster at everything than the other two with their dual cores. Not to mention It'll always have side-loading available as well.The Sense user interface is so much better than that of the Nook and Fire. It has a polished aluminum and white back housing, so the overall premium build quality is also much nicer. It has 16GB of built in memory, with the option to add an additional 32GB SD card. (48GB of memory- What!?) It does EVERYTHING+ that my ex-iPad did, but in a more convenient 7" size. It's a complete no brainer. But with all the advertisement going on for both nook and the K-Fire, only a few are seeing, or even hearing about the Flyer being the obvious, and clearly better choice over those two by leaps and bounds. HTC is really dropping the ball on advertising the Flyer, especially right now as people are really starting to like the 7" tablets. They need to seize the day on this one.
