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Nook Tablet OS Walkthrough - BWOne.com

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Channel: BWOne · 2011 · Science & Technology

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While the Nook tablet is an Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet you wouldn't know that by the way the heavily customized UI is. Barnes & Nobel is trying to make this version of android not made for tablet use, as tablet friendly as possible.

The main screen comprises of 3 desktops called "panels." You can drag content on it and place it anywhere you want to on the panels and you can resize them just by using the pinch/zoom motion on top of the icon. At the bottom of the panels is where all of your most recent content will appear. You can drag anything from there on the desktop and you scan scroll left to right through the content. Below that there is a is shortcuts to each content section from books, newsstand, movies, music and apps. At the bottom you will see content that is running in the background and available to resume right away from where you left off. If your reading a book it will show a book icon, if your on the web or watching a video and you move back to the desktop or another part of the system it will show an icon for that.  Tapping near the clock will bring up quick access to common setting such as connections, volume and battery meter.  On the top will have a space for your notifications and where you last left off in a book and next to that is where you will see suggestions based on what books and content you are enjoying.

While the user interface is easy to use I do feel it's not as simple as the one you find on the Amazon Kindle Fire. There is also a delay between choosing an action and it executing on it. Like when I go to change the wallpaper it tends to take a1-2 seconds after long pressing the desktop before it shows up and another 1-2 seconds after I select the wallpaper for it to change. There should be some patches and updates down the road to help with this issues. Overall the Nook UI is user-friendly enough for the average user.

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