Remember all that extra functionality your Nook Tablet used to have? Well, that is what memories are there for. The recently-released Nook 1.4.1 firmware update apparently prevents the Nook Tablet from installing Android apps from non-Barnes & Noble sources. For that reason, the unit is confined to the roughly 2,000 apps available through B&N’s app store (a lot of that are priced higher than their Android Market equivalents). This lockdown has already been performed at the Nook Color and attempting to sideload a brand new title will pop up a warning that only apps from the Nook store might be installed at the device. At the least it seems that third-party apps already at the tablet will continue to run and there is always the hope of a custom ROM which could reenable the feature on Christmas morning.
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