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"Barnes & Noble Nook HD+ review"
Reply to: by DarthVarner
So we have here a very well made tablet from the hardware/specs standpoint. All of the complaints I see deal with things on the software or content side (super-low audio is completely normal in movies, relative to normal system settings).
I may not be the “average” user, but I’d prefer solid hardware with shaky software over crap hardware with a good “ecosystem/app selection” at release. Things used to be rated this way, or at least biased toward the physical side / specs… now it’s coming down to “how polished was version 1.0 of your OS?” to determine a very good from a very mediocre/bad score.
For instance: you mention Performance (outside B&N’s apps) is actually excellent. Then in the scoring, you double-ding this tablet in both Performance and Software. I would argue the correct scoring would score software lower – but keep Performance high, reflecting the physical capabilities of the hardware, which may well be manifest soon enough as this is B&N’s flagship. Same, potentially, for Speakers. Did you ever try it with a normal, ripped audio file instead of a video? I’m not even going to start re-hashing the “why both software and ecosystem” argument that’s gone on for ages, except to say there is some merit there.
Anyway from what I can tell it sounds like a rooted version of this running stock Android would have scored 2+ points higher. And that will, inevitably, happen.
Reply to: by DarthVarner
So we have here a very well made tablet from the hardware/specs standpoint. All of the complaints I see deal with things on the software or content side (super-low audio is completely normal in movies, relative to normal system settings).
I may not be the “average” user, but I’d prefer solid hardware with shaky software over crap hardware with a good “ecosystem/app selection” at release. Things used to be rated this way, or at least biased toward the physical side / specs… now it’s coming down to “how polished was version 1.0 of your OS?” to determine a very good from a very mediocre/bad score.
For instance: you mention Performance (outside B&N’s apps) is actually excellent. Then in the scoring, you double-ding this tablet in both Performance and Software. I would argue the correct scoring would score software lower – but keep Performance high, reflecting the physical capabilities of the hardware, which may well be manifest soon enough as this is B&N’s flagship. Same, potentially, for Speakers. Did you ever try it with a normal, ripped audio file instead of a video? I’m not even going to start re-hashing the “why both software and ecosystem” argument that’s gone on for ages, except to say there is some merit there.
Anyway from what I can tell it sounds like a rooted version of this running stock Android would have scored 2+ points higher. And that will, inevitably, happen.