CyanogenMod 7 Landing at the NOOK Tablet

Looks like changes are made for the new Nook tablet by Barnes & Noble. This device made for media viewing such as e-books, videos, photos, MP3, games and movies seems like stepping up to a new level. Some independent developers found a way to port a beta version of CyanogenMod7 to run this particular slate.

CyanogenMod7 firmware is based on Android 2.3 Gingerbread with additional custom code contributed by the CyanogenMod Team.

According to resources, this firmware was primarily written by Cyanogen (Steve Kondik) but includes contributions from the Xda-developers community such as an improved launcher tray, dialer, and browser and code from established open source projects.

At the moment, bugs still exist so they have to fix and remove some download links to avoid the tablet to go on a breakdown. But two definite ways were made: installing to tablet’s internal storage and setting up into a bootable SD card.

Both has its own pros and cons. For instance, installing through internal storage could delete the operating system installed by B &N. But default settings can be recovered when you backed up your device first.

On the other hand when you use the other way you must make sure not to format an SD card for it can brick your device. Though installing this through SD card would mean more work for you.

Cyanogens advantage to default B&N software includes access to 12 GB of disk space for storage, out-the-box support for Google Android market, using third party keyboard that you like and voice input through Nook’s built in mic.

With this and NOOK’s 7-inch on 1024 x 600 pixel IPS display with 1 GHz TI OMAP 4 dual-core processor and 16GB of storage, browsing and watching would be a breeze.

This new innovation would be accessible to many users any time soon.

via liliputing