I was able to VERY VERY VERY easily run Honeycomb on the Nook Color (goddamit! No challenge at ALL! I didn't even have to INSTALL it, I was able to just run it off a microSD card without even touching all the work I'd already done to the internally installed copy (emmc). Anyway--it ran fludily and I can EASILY see how we went from 2.3 to 2.4. You have to USE it hands-on to really get a sense of how this is STILL Android. I can CLEARLY see how apps work--even the old ones. I can also see how this 3.0 version might only work on a tablet but that it might still be perfectly capable of easily evolving to run on a small-screen too. I think Google's really done it right. And it's just a damned limited Nook at 800MHz. Kudos to the Google guys and the open-source community that got it where it is (because you KNOW that it wasn't just Google that did all this--despite all the Maemo/MeeGo rage against Android).

Nope. There was no Android Market on the image I was running but I didn't run it for long anyway. It definitely felt unfinished (it ran well, but it was clearly still in beta--in fact, I was running Honeycomb beta 4 for Nook). You could sideload things via adb, but there was no Market yet, at least not on that image and I didn't go looking around for it.

On the other hand, I've been reading that Froyo is a VERY stable and viable update for the Nook, so I might erase everything and install that instead. The Nook's Android OS looks and feels really awkward and I'm looking forward to installing a PROPER honest-to-God built-from-source OS on there. I'll let you know what works best and report it back here (at least, until TMO disappears for lack of Nokia funding).

If nothing else, I'm on the XDA forums--but it's a HUUUUGE place, so I'mnot sure how you would find me there except by username. I'm assuming you're already there, too?

I hate saying "I told you so" for all the cynicism I've expressed, because it would be so much better for me if I had been proven wrong, but I have an uncanny knack of recognizing the obvious where others would prefer to be optimistic or fanboyish. :P

Despite Nokia's decrepit behavior and nose-diving status, they COULD save themselves and save face and, in the longer run, end up even farther up ahead if they would listen to the things I'd said before about making their PHYSICAL-presence known (sell some support contracts), listening to customers and engineers who are closer to the end-user experience and then rising above the rest to be better by acknowledging the leverage they could get by letting the open-source community help (thus far, despite Nokia's claims to the opposite, they haven't really worked WITH the community, instead placing an increase of barriers to open-source).

Oh well.

Let's see what INTEL (or someone else) can do with MeeGo. That's SUPPOSED to be its big selling point now, right? It's ACTUALLY open-source and no longer tied to Nokia,right? heh Personally, I have higher hopes for Ubuntu Mobile, now.

Why is that an Apple win? o.O? We've been doing all those things on the Android version far longer than the Apple version.

What's that?

I can't believe people bought the N900, personally. I waited and waited for so long after I had my N800 for some kind of an upgrade to my INTERNET TABLET. I became very annoyed when the next Maemo device turned out to be a me-too iPhone competitor based on Maemo instead of the next and better INTERNET TABLET. I preferred progress over distraction, and I withdrew my intent to purchase it and I still remember being told to censor myself for mentioning it. I also had been told to shut up when I'd said "wouldn't it be appropriate if Nokia went WP7", mainly to point out how it's typical of the way Nokia behaves. It's kind of funny in a sad and cynical way. I can't say I'm surprised to see a company that treats its customers so badly would do this.

I know that Nokia won't say it, so I'm going to pretend I'm a Nokia PR person and say it on their behalf for you: "I'm genuinely sorry that you had to waste your money and go through any hassles you might have experienced to get obtain support, parts and customer service, to find out that we weren't taking the N900 seriously, despite everything we told you along the way." Nokia is what ruined Nokia's brand--not the people, like myself, who loved what they had at one point and then criticized it along the way since.

Anyway, me--I intend to continue hanging around the XDA forums for Android reading, but it's too big to make many regular friends there, I think. If you want to throw me a friend request on Facebook, I'm on there, too, and I reeeeeally love the Droid Fans site for news and friendly bantering the way we do here. It's a shame what Nokia has done to this community. It's a sad, crying shame.