The Nook Color e-reader is quite a phenomenon on the IT market, and while it comes with risks when users try to hack it, Barnes and Noble is working towards removing the necessity for hacks.
The Nook Color e-reader is one of the first e-book readers that is equipped with a color display, a touchscreen with a resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels that is.
It has 8 GB of internal flash storage, 802.11n wireless connectivity and support for multimedia files, like MPEG4, in addition to e-book formats.
Mainly, the product proved quite popular because it has a feature set quite a bit similar to that of tablets.
This led to the speculations that about one million of them
will be sold before the end of the ongoing year, 2010.
What some users see as downsides to the device is that it not only lacks support for the Android Market, but it also runs an older version of Android, not 2.2.
Some users might know that there is a hack that allows someone to install the Froyo (Android 2.2) on the Nook Color.
Unfortunately, it has now been
revealed that, since the hack implies that one disable the battery monitoring process, overheating won't be detected.
Since Barnes and Noble does not want end-users' Nooks to blow up in their laps or faces, it advises against the procedure.
Fortunately, to appease those that want this e-reader (which can actually be seen as a tablet), the Nook's maker promises that it is only a matter of time before Froyo gets implemented on it.
In fact,
as reports have it, the upgrade to Android 2.2 will happen sometime during January, 2011, so eager customers won't really have to wait that long.
What remains to be seen is if B&N decides to rename the Nook Color e-reader into the Nook tablet, since Android 2.2 will enable access to the Android Market and all of its apps.
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