Any opinions on the Barnes & Noble Nook Color, if it will be worth the $250 when it comes out? It appears that it will be a full Android tablet, but hooked up to their proprietary app store. Also, how do the specs compare to the Pandigital Novel that came out a few months ago ($180 or so), or any of the other Android tablets?

What I'm looking for -- something a tablet with decent resolution, for use around the house / camping / etc. Doesn't have to be pocketable, as I've already got my Nokia tablets (n810 / n900). So far my main complaint on the n900 (for tablet uses) is that my eyes aren't as good as they used to be, so I might have to get reading glasses for long usage periods (web browsing, ebook reading, etc). So the 7" tablets seem to fit nicely between a netbook and phone form factors.

But it seems that the only tablets (besides the iPad) are all off-brand jobs, using the lowest-end components that they can get away with. I'm hoping that the Nook will be decent enough (able to play regular downloaded videos without re-encoding, good for ebooks without burning my eyes out, etc). BTW, I've had the older ePaper Nook, but the contrast ratio wasn't high enough for me (couldn't read comfortably without a 150-watt light bulb or direct sunlight). But from past experience my eyes will also get sore looking at a backlit screen (I've read through several novels on laptop screens).

Oh, the other thing I'm looking for in a tablet -- the ability to either hook up a USB keyboard, or at least a bluetooth keyboard. And of course the ability to upgrade the OS without waiting for the vendor to issue updates (i.e., I don't want any device that requires a signed kernel).