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All-New Nook – Reader with eInk display running Android

July 26th, 2011 hakan Comments off

Using my Desire and S II to read books on lunch breaks can become pretty addictive :-)

The only bad thing is that reading on an eInk display can become pretty addictive as well, but my previous readers had either no wireless capability or an useless operating system.

So, one day while reading through my blogs, suddenly I stumbled on this little wonder device… smallish form factor, useful operating system and an eInk display… I was hooked from the first day on :-)

Actually ordering this thing and getting it to germany was a little adventure in itself, but in the end, I have a reader that is very close to my dream device… Now, if only Aldiko could synchronize its bookmarks between devices :-)

Categories: Android, EBooks Tags: Aldiko, Android, EBooks

Samsung Galaxy S II – I want to read the display in the sun as well

May 18th, 2011 hakan Comments off

For a very long time, I was satisfied with my HTC Desire…

O.k., having to empty my email inbox every few days because the internal memory was way too little sucked. And installing a custom rom just so I could have a slightly more usable app2sd sucket a little bit more. But what really broke the camel’s back was the poor visibility of the display in the sun. Which meant that I could not read any ebooks while relaxing after lunch or go to a quick geocaching hunt just as the fancy hit me.

So, without futher ado, since many many other people already wrote everything necessary about this cool device, here is my second android device: