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The nookdevs take down 3 Years, 5 Months ago Karma: 4
Just in case you were under a rock and missed this today1

nookdevs site

Appeared on slashdot, and etc.

Very interesting approach. I'd agree with the rest of the comments about "did they want to make it easy?" I wondered about the speed of the memory card and if that could play into the speed problems of the device.
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It really is a bit surprising that the OS was on a common SD card hidden within the guts of the device.

Android phones (like my G1/HTC Dream) have all this stuff in a flashable ROM. Getting access that way usually involves finding a hole in the system - I believe it's the Bluetooth system on the phones.

SD(HC) cards now go up to Class 10 (10 MByte/S transfer), which is quite fast. However, while that may boost the speed of booting the device or loading books stored on the card, it may not increase the speed of the e-ink screen. Sure, it'll move the data from the card to the device a bit faster, but the e-ink refresh is what it is.

The bad thing is that I've heard the e-ink dev kit costs about $3K, so... ...


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