Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) on Nook Color

This is Honeycomb, or Android 3.0, running on the Nook Color. This video is just a quick walk through of the software. In particular, this is Deeper Blue’s Honeycomb Preview v4. (Current as of 2/11/11 @ 5am CST) The UI just looks wicked cool. It’s just a preview, so this doesn’t represent the final product. Still though, it looks really neat. I’ll be making the how-to for this in the coming days. The installation process was pretty seamless for me. As soon as I log in, I have access to the Market for a max of 5-8 minutes before it denies any programs from downloading. Then a few minutes later, I get the “Google Talk Authorization Failure” message. After that, I still have access to the Market, but I cannot download applications. I also noticed that some protected apps show up, and others don’t. Other than that, it feels fast and is very responsive. Here’s where I found out how to do this: (Thanks to samuelhalff on XDA for the thread that helped me do this. Also, thanks to Deeper Blue for his excellent work with HC for the NC.) forum.xda-developers.com

Shoehorning Android 3.0 Honeycomb onto the NOOK Color makes for the best 0 Honeycomb tablet going. It’s not without its issues, deeper-blue’s Honeycomb for NOOK Color image, Honeycomb runs beautifully on your NOOK Color from a microSD card, 4GB or better @ butterscotch.com: bit.ly
Video Rating: 4 / 5