Gadgetory

hey what is going on everybody I'm knowing from TechnoBuffalo calm and I'm here with uh what might be my favorite tablet I know somebody here could it be like what are you talking about but the little nut color the little the little ereader that could is now all grown up and it's a it's baby Android tablet for reals so let's look at Angry Birds how it runs on this thing again you know the the thing that I like the most about this device and the combination of simplicity and form factor very easy to use one-handed great for ereading and then the bonus of the the web functionality I'm the worst Angry Birds player ever so you know and so you've got the multi-touch and every birds least is fairly responsive for that I'm so bad I just chucked it over the top okay now I'm just trying to be that no I'm not I'm really bad that was I mean even for me that was pathetic but you can see it works you know it's responsive the gameplay is good it's going to come down to you know how how good are the apps that are being made and are people interested in to them on this device on a you know smaller perhaps less spectat but cheaper device for 250 bucks and now you're starting to see honeycomb tablets you know for for under 500 under for under 400 even and so then it comes down to marketing and you know Barnes and Noble has a huge I mean they know how to sell stuff they've been in retail for a long time they have huge marketing huge distribution channels and that's why I think there's a smart move for them to launch their own app store I don't know how much you know cost of in terms of money and resources a couple little quirks here you know with some of these apps to get out of a nap you have to do I have to pause the app and then the button will come back to life and I can keep clicking back so I quit that kind of thing there may be a long press function actually I should try the long press function but you've got your email contacts like I said I your nook friends Pandora sodoku all that kind of stuff get a music player built in you know all that good stuff I actually didn't quite touch the touchscreen that time it just transmitted for my thumb maybe I staticky there's also a notifications bar now so before when I had a new email add a little notification pop up down there when my contacts from Ford a little notification saying you know hey see if these people want to be your friends on nuke friends so that's kind of cool your apps show up because it is very unobtrusive which I liked about your apps show up in your most recently viewed stuff kind of weird that these apps you know because they don't have proper icons yet they look a little funny next to their their apps that have proper icons like nook friends like email and then the ones that don't angry birds doesn't even have a title so I think those are little bugs that will get fixed hopefully soon and that I've got you know my new issues of running magazine running times and a new book I haven't read yet you know these are these latest things that I've looked at and so you can you know you can go back and read the books and they've now updated the reading functionality animations now do I have to maybe I have to set I have to turn on animations actually didn't check this out before check out the other stuff but did not check out yeah animate you book page turns go okay me I would probably leave this off but some people want to see the stuff that's it it's the animation okay you know whatever let's look at the web browser because that's also the the biggest area people been talking about with flash support now on the web we go to the web and we're at youtube so i can watch videos in line on youtube you can see the pinching exhuming works it's a you know not the smoothest ever kind of depends on what page you're looking at and that sort of thing but the video plays in line and then if i turn the device play it there as well and then i can go into i was able to afford to get it into full screen mode i'm going to do that that double tap there you go so full screen mode on youtube and if I clear out of here I'll press the HOME key to exit right there little shortcuts they programmed in the home key exit south we'll go back i was looking at ESPN before and this is um i also haven't had AI had some weird Wi-Fi connectivity issues before the update where the the connection would kind of forget my network and then we remember it that kind of thing haven't had those yet since the update so that's good but if we go to ESPN go to sports center videos and i was looking at this before and play so you have to deal with an ad so it's you know it's not the fastest in the world but it loads up in other words but then you can see the video not optimized for mobile and so you know that gets into anything they're actually that the browser has mobile and desktop modes and it's nice the way it presents to you you know the choice up front and it recommends mobile mode as default of course I put into desktop mode and you can see you know not optimized for mobile the videos pretty stuttery but the audio comes through pretty well so there's that and then I'm going to scroll down I'm going to go to Megiddo calm and real quick check out a couple of Doug's mega Doug a cup of a couple of mega deck Doug's games and let's go to in racer flash game see how all this works so I don't know how I can play because I don't have a space bar and a uh yeah so it's not gonna lie there's no way I can play so let's go back let's try a different game bowling i believe i've played on a mobile device before no works just fine yep so there you go you can play you know this is a very simple flash game but simple enough for me to rule us bear one of those in nine but there you go it's flash it's working I can zoom in even a tip tap to interact perfect thanks I don't know how I'm gonna tap ok now I convert the spare no all right but there you go a quick tour around the nook color with the new firmware update from barnes & noble it's got you know everything that i liked about it beforehand Plus now a little bit more with integrated email contacts a little bit better web browsing flash support and those ant crazy animated page terms I'm app store Angry Birds you know HD you know all kinds of stuff so I'm psyched about this I'm going to be a nap nation this coming Wednesday in term cisco sitting on a panel with somebody from barnes & noble as well somebody from amazon and a couple of developers i believe me interested to talk with them hear what they have to say here how they respond to what i have to say about you know all these new app stores coming out i think it's it's uh you know android purists might not love it i don't know how to enjoy purus think but but i think about it but i think it's the way the future android turning into these sub branded things and I think barnes noble and i think amazon has a tablet coming that's my guess I think they're right on it I think it's the way to go to leverage this to their own you know to their own strengths anyway much much more on all the tablets John got like seven of them in last week while I was on the road over on technobuffalo and all our video outlets and everything else till next time my name Noah if you've got questions about the new color definitely hit me up over on the site or on the twitter account at normal kravitz and i will tell you what I can about it we'll see you later you