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[Nook Color General] kettlecorn:
If anyone has both or had both, would you be able to answer a few questions?

I got a brand new ipad 1 for $280 and ended up selling it a few weeks ago because it really didnt meet my expectations for performance. I like Android OS better because of user customization ability and the widgets, which I use all the time. I dont like choosing between a million apps. I was very disappointed with the browser experience of the ipad 1. It was good for viewin 2-3 pages but after that, it would checker-board and also because of the limited ram (256mb) it would constantly refresh. Browsng on the ipad 1, was very minimal browsing, nothing that I can replace a netbook with. I think the Nook has 512mb ram which is the same as the ipad2....Also the ipad1 lacked multitasking (Even simple ones like chatting with someone on gchat and going back to my browser page) and notifications.

1) How does the browsing experience for the Nook compare to the ipad1?

2) With the new mods and tweaks, what about responsiveness?

I plan to use the tablet for watching movies, netflix when it comes out, browsing, gchat and multi-tasking all around with email and stuff. The ipad severely underperformed in that aspect and in the notification aspect. Basically, if it can do everything my stock mytouch4g phone can do (1ghz, 786mb ram), I will be happy.

3) Is the nook a legitimate replacement for an android tablet like the xoom? I mean considering the price + mods and tweaks, to someone who doesnt have one, it LOOKS good on youtube. BUt you never know how itll work out until soemone who used it tells you the truth.
[Nook Color General] snives:
The biggest problem I have run into browsing involves sites automatically redirecting to the mobile versions although the NC is generally better off, at least in my opinion, with full versions. That is easily fixed with a few tweaks however. I have many times had 5-6 tabs open in Opera while listening to Pandora or an audio book in Mort Player and notice no slowdown.

Everything short of Dungeon Defenders runs with no apparent slowdown after proper setup, and it is only going to get faster as Dalingrin and others continue working on it. I can whip back and forth between all my pages of apps without seeing any hesitation or stuttering with 5 widgets on my main page and 10+ apps on every page.

To me, it definitely is. I frequently use my Nook for a few main tasks, all of which it handles perfectly in my experience.

1) RDP (I use Remote Desktop Client by Xtralogic)

2) Streaming video (UPNPlay + RockPlayer)

3) Audio books (Mort Player)

4) Web Browsing (Opera)

5) Remote control of media on my PC (MPC-HC Remote/VLC Remote)

6) Playing games (Angry Bird+Seasons+Rio, Stupid Zombies, Fruit Ninja, Words With Friends, Speed 3D FX, NES/SNES/GBA/GameGear/Genesis/PSX emulators)

7) lulz (FML, Cheezeburger, joke apps)

On an important note though, lacking 4G and GPS really annoys me, but I am planning on getting a Bionic whenever they finally release which tethering to should cover me for both of those.
[Nook Color General] patgnds:
I never had that many problems with the internet on the ipad. But I do not have a lot installed. I use the apps that came with it for most all my stuff. When I try to use other apps to copy files to it that’s when the problems started. after removing the files every thing is good. I have Angry Birds and other games running with no issues. The battery life is the same as the NC running CM7 off sdcard. All in all the nook color is very impressive for the price.
[Nook Color General] kettlecorn:
Awesome, thanks for the reply. It looks like with the overclock and some mods itll run just fine. I'm also looking into the archos tablets but I don't think they are as good as the nook in terms of support or getting honeycomb.
[Nook Color General] bekyndnunwind:
In all honesty I am a fan of android, and not a fanboy of apple...that being said...

I enjoy using my girlfriend's iPad, and if they weren't $500+ I would have bought one. After spending alittle over $250 on my nook color, I am VERY pleased with it.

I think my girlfriend is a little jealous too, especially when she sees me playing flash off the internet. I think the screen size is just perfect, and with the progress the developers have made on CM7 so far, it is working great. I think the main benefit of Android over apple is that you have more choices on which software to run on the device.

There are some very lightweight and fast web browsers out for Android, and I think you will find one to suit your needs.

Very pleased with my nook color and I recommend them to many friends.
[Nook Color General] itzankov:
I have both iPad and a CM7 nook. This is my take:

- iPad is huge! It does not fit any pocket. In fact is so big, that you have to carry a bag if you want to take it along (and if you take a bag, you might as well take a notebook). This is a magor plus for the nook. 7" seems to be just fine for me.

- iPad has a very low resolution screen. The screen density on the iPad is much lower then any phone's. This is relay frustrating for me. The nook has much better screen density.

- 4:3 vs. 16:10. I prefer the widescreen. 4:3 is probably better for magazines, but when it comes to video a lot of the 4:3 screen is wasted.

- when it comes to performance - the nook is much faster (using CM7 with the OC kernel), unfortunately battery life on the nook is not that great.

So, I guess it's more of a choice of form factor. For me, 10" 4:3 screen is not a good choice at all. I can't comfortably hold it in one hand. The plus is that the iPad has a bit of a WOW-factor over here (in Bulgaria). :)
[Nook Color General] ambogt:
I actually own both. Here's my take:

iPad:

- More responsive screen (huge perk for me)

- Appstore is so superior to Market. It's not even a contest.

- Bigger screen = more enjoyable browsing from the couch.

Nook Color (Phiremod 5.3 @ 1.1ghz):

- More portable

- More enjoyable reading ebooks (which is my primary use for it atm)

- more "fun" with the moding community and openness of Android

- Much easier to sideload apps and books. Huge plus.

All in all, I have an iPhone 4 and the iPad is a glorified iPhone. So I bought the iPad for the fiance and she absolutely loves the simplicity of it as she can relate to it because she has an iPhone as well.

I bought the Nook initially and learning Android was not as intuitive as learning iOS was for her. So the nook simply frustrates her.

Each has it's purpose. It's really all about what you're going to do with each device.

EDIT: Also, I paid $200 for my Nook (new) and $300 for her iPad (new). At these price points, if I could have just ONE device, I'd choose the iPad (jailbroken) over the Nook Color (CM7). If it were between the NC and the iPad2 @ $500, NC, no question. But that's just me.
[Nook Color General] parasense:
Got both.

Ipad has netflix. NC will never get netflix, ever. Netflix requires qualcom chip DRM.

That is a big plus for ipad/phone, a single killer app.

Flash support if you ROM the nook.

I feel flash beats netflix, or at least ballances the scale.

Form factor of NC is ideal, 7 inch will win the tablet form factor wars for obvious reasons.

Ipad is wifi only, so not much diff there.

Ipad apps, seems like most I ever used (read: free) were upscaled iphone apps. Pixel doubling fail. Suppose android has same issue to a much lesser extent, and somwhoe it never bothers. Could be a bias, but really the ios apps seem to have more profound issue with native tablet apps or making apps scale to larger screen.

Multitasking. Ipad came out around the time of mutitasking ios apps, but seems to not share the feature with iphone.

I love the nook color over ipad. Ipad is dead in the eyes of apple.

Deliver by Epic 4G xda app
[Nook Color General] colbur87:
You can easily change your userAgent with dolphin... sorry if its been mentioned in the thread, I didnt look :)
[Nook Color General] bobzdar:
My experience with the ipad 1 mimics yours, though I will say for one or two page browsing the ipad is superior. However, I can open 7 or 8 tabs at once in DolphinHD (whatever the maximum number it lets you open) on the NC without any slowdown when scrolling through pages which makes it vastly superior for me as I always have at least 3 or 4 tabs open when browsing. If you want to do anything like drawing or note taking, the screen is more sensitive on the ipad to allow that, though you can also do it on the NC, just not as well.

In terms of tablet useability, it is as usable if not more so than my Fascinate. You can easily multitask and it performs well. Mail, gchat etc. all run at the same time without issue. Movie watching is high quality if you convert the movies or use VLC convert and stream to encode on the fly to the proper format. I prefer the form factor as it's more portable and you can use it one-handed which is not really possible with the ipad. It absolutely can be used as an everyday tablet.
[Nook Color General] capnblackleg:
Probably no sense in repeating everything everyone has said so I'll say that I pick the NC up more often than the iPad because having Flash is important to me and the size is so much nicer, especially when reading. The iPad is just overly huge.
[Nook Color General] ace7196:
I'll make a lier out of you yet ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=995759

It was working for some time, but they caught on to us. It's close to coming out, though...
[Nook Color General] hirano:
What about the NC screen brightness, contrast, viewing angles, color reproduction, flickering?

I've used an Ipad 1 in a bright store and it suffers a lot from glare, even at highest brightness setting.

Couldn't find a Nook Color in my country to try it out.
[Nook Color General] cshehan:
I have both an ipad 1 and the nc. In the past I have had a Cruz tablet, gtab, and Augen tablet. There are three things I have to have in a tablet: speed, portability, and a good screen. Out of all those tablets only one meets all those criteria and its the nc.

The screen is superb. Its has great viewing angles, and it's bright and crisp. The speed once rooted and overclocked is good, there are faster tablets but not at this price point. Finally, this is truly a portable device. You can't just toss an ipad or grab in your pocket. Plus have you ever tried to hold those larger tablets in one hand for any period of time?

I would say for now if you want a nice, zippy, portable tablet this is the clear cut winner.
[Nook Color General] Jgrimoldy:
Hmmm... ever? To quote Marge Gunderson, "Not so sure about your detective work there, Lou"

"Ever" is a mighty strong statement.
[Nook Color General] animatechnica:
playon lets you access netflix via your home PC - so while technically I don't have direct access, i can access netflix from anywhere using my nook color using playon
[Nexus S Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barca-x:
hey guys , i have a question about Nexus S 9023

Does this Phone have ROMs like Nexus S 9020 ?

And what do you think of Its S LCD Performance ?
[General Topics] quicksite:
Who's Developing for "Square" MagStripe CreditCard Reader & Touchscreen Payment Systm

When I first saw a display ad here on XDA for this gizmo around beginning of April, I thought it was an Fool's joke because the gadget was so small, and it seemed "too smart" to be true.

... but many of you know it's been out for quite a while. Threads here go back to I think September 2010, (though there was zero traction then)...

Website: https://squareup.com/media

FAQ: https://help.squareup.com/customer/portal/topics/4139-frequently-asked-questions/articles

It works on Android phones and iphones...

Then, by the end of April, having poked around a bit, following links, asking questions on their twitter feed and at facebook, I come to find out that SQUARE, the name of this device, new company and payment system, is the brainchild of Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, a real visionary, who's been ahead of the curve before, regarding the ways people, and groups of people, interact, and where technology can play a role there.

With this new knowledge -- which is significant -- it completely reframes the way I looked at this device: from a QUESTION MARK about

to

Very different perception about the entire product and viability as you see in the 3 short posts I made in this thread, how it quickly progresses

So, has anyone here....

• used one? If so, how did the transaction go? Is it smooth sailing, does the card reader work the first time? (if so, it's better than most checkout stands at grocery or drug store)

• bought one? if so, have you used it for a business, or just to try out, or to write an app for?

• developed custom software for it?

From the looks of it, if this works half as well as it appears, it seems pretty darn revolutionary.

Curious to see if there is any feedback.
[General Topics] matt.blackwood:
To be honest it's not something that i would trust.
[General Topics] quicksite:
Explain more please. Do you mean as a card holder making a transaction? You mean you would not trust ...

(a) the security of the system to properly authenticate with the credit card company and approve the transaction

(b) the card reader's and software's inherent reliability to firewall your credit card data and isolate just that single transaction, without grabbing your credit card info?

(c) the vendor using the credit card reader and who knows what software has been tied to the reader to grab and suck down all your credit card data, nicely stored for vendor to use another time, another place -- or sell off to some third party?

(d) or the vendor is acting in good faith but someone makes an app for his particular business and sells to him and he is legit, but unbeknownst to him the app is "phoning home" to app maker or some third party with credit card data?

-------- Please explain , don't just pick a, b, c, d .... I'd really like to understand. And these just sprang off the top of my head once you said that.
[General Topics] RADRaze2KX:
I've been eyeing them as a company and as a mobile PoS system solution for a while... I signed up today, guess we'll see in a month how it goes.
[General Topics] CptAJ:
I think the main issues are definitely B, C and D on your previous post. I'm sure A has been solved by now, otherwise this wouldn't even be a product.

People are very paranoid about their credit cards, and with good reason. Anything remotely "new" will have a tough period of adaptation and the fact that this is portable and so ad-hoc (clever though it is) will only fuel people's doubts. It's great from an engineering perspective but its more of a risky bet when you take marketting into account. But not to worry, there's a lot of places that could pioneer these devices. Cyber cafe's with iphone-armed waitresses and such would be ideal. From there on it would spread. (I would NEVER use it on a hot dog stand like the ad photo suggests though, no way XD)

The signature thing caught my eye as well. Its gonna be really awkward to sign with your fingers. They should DEFINITELY package an iphone-compatible stylus with each reader.
[General Topics] quicksite:
Wow, didn't know SQUARE is from inventor of Twitter, his next "vision"

This quadruples my interest in this gizmo and belief in its destiny to take over the credit card terminal business:

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/04/jack-dorsey-201104

Frankly, now with this information, I'm really surprised XDA-devs is so slow to get onboard with this. My god, people are dragging their heels on this? It's completely nuts. This is a homerun. If someone has an app to develop for android or windows7, or even iphone, or vendor-by-vendor custom apps, this is going to be a huge huge money maker for app developers customizing apps for SMALL BUSINESSES.

He or she who drags feet will be like Microsoft dragging feet after the iphone flipped the UI for touchscreens to finger-based navigation.
[General Topics] quicksite:
Thanks for replying. Here's what their site says about security. I would love to see the XDA-dev security experts scrutinize every aspect of the security issues, and pick apart any shortcomings -- simply for identification purposes. I want to see this succeed, and as you can see in the way I have reframed the way I see the product, I am certain it will. I can't see it failing to gain significant traction in X years' time. It will probably be way faster than it took paypal to build user trust -- because that was a different time in the internet curve of adoption by consumers.

https://squareup.com/security | VeriSign Secured seal | PCI Compliant link

***

*** I want to actually respond to your post's points that I can respond to in next post. This was to isolate the security info into one post.
[General Topics] Kaessa:
I have one of these and have used it, the transactions have gone smoothly. I haven't used it often, but I've had it since they first launched (I was one of the first people to get one of them), and it works great as a swipe card reader as well as a manual input card device if you need to take a credit card number over the internet or phone. I'm not planning on using it in place a normal merchant account (I'm in the process of getting one set up for online transactions), but for in-person transactions I'd feel just as comfortable using this as I would any other card-swiping solution.

Just my two cents. :)
[General Topics] quicksite:
FORGET ABOUT ALL DOUBTS in Square payment system: VISA investing in Square

http://www.cnbc.com/id/42783124

For all those who were marginalizing SQUARE with a "wait and see" approach, you might as well sprint ahead and get into adoption mode, and start developing for it. With this VISA partnership, hard to see SQUARE needing any more validation. It's going to clean up big time.

more in link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/42783124

And from GigaOm:
[General Topics] quicksite:
Kaessa, would love to get more anecdotal information about how customers are responding to this form of payment -- what questions do they ask... and even procedurally -- walk me through it, do you in fact hold the phone in your hand, as pictured, and they swipe it? Or do you turn phone sideways (90-degrees) so they can swipe card more like at cashier terminals?

Then what, do you keep the reader plugged in and flip phone around for people to sign?

Do people have an okay time with finger?

Is there a reset/ try signature again?

Just curious! Thank you.
[General Topics] Charles Darke:
I really want to get one of these to play with, but they are not available outside of the US. I don't want to use it for payments, just as a mag-stripe reader.

I was wondering if anyone in the US would be willing to buy one and send it over? I heard you can buy them over the counter from apple stores...
[General Topics] scared crooked:
crazy stuff
[General Topics] madnish30:
MOD note: After going through the thread, indeed it's related to phones and shall be moved back to general shortly.

It might have been misinterpreted by ORB, even we moderators are humans and can make mistakes.

So, I suggest OP and everyone relax.

Also, if OP you have any further issues address them to me via PM ( not rant threads - like the one I shut ).
[General Topics] orb3000:
That is correct, initially it seemed to be an iphone only related thread, now OP edited and included other OS´s.

@OP, Next time please contact Moderator instead of creating rant threads please
[General Topics] quicksite:
OP only edited it to make it more apparent that it was about phones. No image was changed. No information was changed re OS. It was about Android from Day 1.
[General Topics] Kaessa:
I've only done it a couple of times, so I'm probably not the best one to ask. One was online, as an eBay transaction... PayPal had screwed up his account so I just took his Visa over the phone. There is a "card not present" option, just like with any other credit card machine.

As far as swiping the card, I would take the card from them and swipe it. It's a fairly delicate device, not like a grocery store card reader, and someone getting over-enthusiastic with it could break it or your phone's headphone jack. I don't worry about breaking it myself... I carry it around in my purse in the same pouch I carry my headphones in.

As far as the signature goes, the finger signature works fine... just turn it around and either give it to them, or put it on a flat surface and have them sign. I don't know if there's a "try again", but there probably is. It's a well developed piece of software, really slick. Looks like they thought of everything when they put it together. I haven't had anyone hesitate to use it. Now that Visa is in on it, I'm sure there won't be any problems.

I'm thinking of using it at my next yard sale. Should get all those looky-loos that "forgot to bring enough money". ;)
[General Questions and Answers] Se7enwolf:
I just installed the new Cyangen mod 7 rom and it installed fine but theres no Android Market app anymore. Without it I can't download titanium to restore my backups.
[General Questions and Answers] Logiic:
You should be able to find the latest version of the market in ROM Manager. Look in ROM downloads under Google Apps. It may be there. If not try doing an XDA or Google search for the download and I'm sure you can find it posted somewhere.
[General Questions and Answers] lowandbehold:
You have to flash GAPP's, its available wherever you downloaded CM7 from. Due to licensing they can't include the google apps in CM7.
[General Questions and Answers] Se7enwolf:
ah thanks I got it now. Apparently the app didn't install during the first installation.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pdasch02:
Firstly, Ive tried to search all over for this answer and didnt find anything. If this is a re-post I apologize.

AT&T seems to have removed the ability to enable unknown sources from the X10 under the settings -> applications menu.

Does anyone know how to enable unknown sources another way?

Thanks
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pdasch02:
Perhaps this will be a simpler question to answer: Is there a way to flash the phone without access to the unknown sources button?
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agentJBM:
You have to unbrand your AT&T. Below is a guide on how to do it. You will also update to Android 2.1, and you will be ready for the 2.3.3 Gingerbread update in Q2 - Q3 2011.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1012380
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rtblittlebrown:
Actually you dont have to theres a way using root explorer and sqlite editor i dont know the link keep searchin through the forums
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fiscidtox:
superoneclick has an option that says "allow non market apps"
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdadevelopers1222:
This is what I remember when I still had my X10 with the AT&T Android 1.6 build.

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You'll have to root your phone and install Root Explorer & Sqlite Editor first.

In Root Explorer, go to /data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/ and edit the settings.db file. Then in Sqlite Editor, select the "secure" table, and update the value of 'install_nonmarket_apps' from 0 to 1, and save. Exit out of all the apps and reboot your phone.

Although you still won't see 'Unknown sources' in Settings > Applications, installing non-market apps should work anyway.

I used the following as a guide:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=773392
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] agentJBM:
Above root 1.6 methods work, but might as well update to 2.1 and root with Flash Tool now, since AT&T is never going to do it. AND you'll be sure to get 2.3 Gingerbread from Sony Ericsson when available.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AyDee:
You don't need to worry about it when flashing. It won't affect it.

+1 QFT
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pdasch02:
Thanks for the help. The purpose of this is to debrand the phone and flash the generic global software. The flash tool (as im sure you all know) requires unknown sources to be on...

I will do this and then see if the flash tool works, thanks.
[XPERIA X10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AyDee:
NM lol:D

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