My wife received an inexpensive refurbished
Nook Color e-book electronic reader for Christmas and I had heard that it also could be turned into an
Android Tablet handheld computer for an inexpensive price. Well I had a 4Gb
MicroSD card hanging around that I got (for free after rebate! do we see a trend here?) a couple years ago that I thought would suit well for the job and got to hunting down a method on the internet. and found a beautiful one! Thank you to Ana Mardoll and her blog post on
How to convert a Nook Color into an Android Tablet that also can easily double as an out-of-the-box Nook Color by simply restarting the thing without the modified SD card inside! It was easier than I thought and I barely ran into any snags at all. In fact it was too easy. I thought there was something I hadn't done right. of course it's only been 1 day but it all went so well. Thank you to the developers out there who build these software packages for free in their spare time and thank you, of course, to
Google, Inc., for publishing for free, the awesome software source code that you provide. What is the strangest thing is that
Barnes and Noble makes the Nook Color with bluetooth inside but their software doesn't allow it, as far as I have read (meaning no bluetooth keyboards or mice or headsets, etc). If you want to have an Android tablet, I highly recommend getting a refurbished Nook Color and trying this out. You even get a 1 year warranty, and as I say with refurbs, whatever was going to break has already broken and been fixed. Its unlikely that anything else will probably break since there are no moving parts. Happy New Year!
