Nook Color: Cyanogen Mod 10.1 Alpha

This weak and poor, 3-year old tablet running on a chip that only Raspberry Pi would envy is ahead of many more poweful devices in that it runs Cyanogen Mod 10.1 (based on AOSP 4.2.1) now.

Sure, it's just an early unofficial alpha for now, but the first reports have that it runs hardly worse than CM10 whereas adding lots of Android 4.2.1 functionality. The builders and contributors are: eyeballer, fattire, keyodi, sluo, krylon360, dalingrin, verygreen, iomonster, nemith, cicadaman, deeper-blue, thedude, mad-murdock, j4mm3r, unforgiven512, scepterr, rebellos, ryands, kmobs, tonsofquestions, hashcode, arcee, hacdan, drmarble, mateor.

However, again: nobody out of devs cares about installability of Adobe Flash player. Also, Nook Tweaks with Nook-specific audio boost are missing (=not being developed for CM10.x). Kernel of 3.0.8 descent is very suspicious on its ability of supporting USB Host/OTG

When the next build will be declared stable and accepted into official Cyanogen Mod tree baobab

there will be even less chance that somobody of them would put up an effort of getting rid of the obvious snags.

They will be busy developing CM11 (AOSP 5.0, based on Android 5.0 a.k.a. Key Lime Pie). Will my Nookie survive till then (actually, spring-summer of 2013), I don't know. Out of much unloved tablets I like Nook HD+ more and more. It's just the question when it will be fire-sold at $120...$150.

However, Google might start their fire sale of Nexus 10 at about the same time. We'll see.

The title picture shows my Nookie running XBMC 12.0 Frodo + MX Player with "HW+" acceleration:

 "Analogue" audio boost is of completely my patented design. Detailed specs and results of stress tests can be emailed to anyone capable of donating me a quarter or two: