{"id":541884,"date":"2010-04-23T11:34:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T15:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/?p=14813"},"modified":"2010-04-23T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T15:34:12","slug":"nook-firmware-update-adds-android-apps-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/541884","title":{"rendered":"Nook Firmware Update Adds Android Apps, Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"KonaBody\">\n<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidguys.com%2F2010%2F04%2F23%2Fnook-firmware-update-adds-android-apps-browser%2F\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.androidguys.com%2F2010%2F04%2F23%2Fnook-firmware-update-adds-android-apps-browser%2F&amp;source=AndroidGuys&amp;style=normal&amp;service=bit.ly\" height=\"61\" width=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p class=\"first-child \" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/nook.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14814\" title=\"nook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/nook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"471\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barnes &amp; Noble recently rolled out a firmware update to their nook e-book reader and it features some nice changes. This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/nook\/support\/?cds2Pid=30195\" >latest version (v1.3)<\/a> now features a\u00a0 pair of Android games &#8211; Chess and Sudoku, as well as a beta web browser.\u00a0 The browser comes as a result of may users asking to log into public WiFi spots that require authentication via a webpage. One of the biggest changes to the nook is the new &#8220;Read in Store&#8221; feature which will let users read complete eBooks in Barnes &amp; Noble stores.\u00a0 Other improvements include faster book loading, page turning, and an updated home screen.\u00a0 Of course there are also the requisite bug fixes and tweaks that come with nearly every firmware release.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that the update must be done over WiFi as it&#8217;s not being supported via a 3G connection.\u00a0 If you are a nook owner, it&#8217;s suggested you <a href=\"http:\/\/images.barnesandnoble.com\/presources\/download\/nook\/v1.3.0\/signed_bravo_update.dat\" >head here to grab the firmwar<\/a>e update with your device.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3  class=\"related_post_title\">Might We Suggest&#8230;<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"related_post\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.androidguys.com\/2009\/12\/16\/pandora-hacked-to-run-on-rooted-nook\/\" title=\"Pandora Hacked to Run on Rooted Nook\">Pandora Hacked to Run on Rooted Nook<\/a><br \/><small>The team over at nookDevs is wasting no time in bending the Barnes &amp; Noble nook to their will.\u00c2\u00a0 After successfully rooting the device in 120 hours, the next step was to try to get Android apps in&#8230;<\/small><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/T6sdx7mWOIXyRc7_ErHTxfWbsVY\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/T6sdx7mWOIXyRc7_ErHTxfWbsVY\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/T6sdx7mWOIXyRc7_ErHTxfWbsVY\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/T6sdx7mWOIXyRc7_ErHTxfWbsVY\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?a=YlVAmuFRnik:MC6iYbGmx0Y:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?i=YlVAmuFRnik:MC6iYbGmx0Y:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?a=YlVAmuFRnik:MC6iYbGmx0Y:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?i=YlVAmuFRnik:MC6iYbGmx0Y:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?a=YlVAmuFRnik:MC6iYbGmx0Y:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?a=YlVAmuFRnik:MC6iYbGmx0Y:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?a=YlVAmuFRnik:MC6iYbGmx0Y:6swKnRFnXgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/androidguyscom?i=YlVAmuFRnik:MC6iYbGmx0Y:6swKnRFnXgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/androidguyscom\/~4\/YlVAmuFRnik\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barnes &amp; Noble recently rolled out a firmware update to their nook e-book reader and it features some nice changes. This latest version (v1.3) now features a\u00a0 pair of Android games &#8211; Chess and Sudoku, as well as a beta web browser.\u00a0 The browser comes as a result of may users asking to log into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}