Putting my trusted Nook Color w/Android (Jelly Bean) 32GB card up for sale…anyone interested?
My technology ADHD kicked in again and I’ve moved on from my trusted Nook Color. I used it as a reading device, then last year bought an n2a SD card to run full Android on it. But ever since I got the iPad, it’s done nothing but collect dust. A few months back I upgraded the Android from 2.3 Gingerbread to 4.1 Jelly Bean, and it was like night and day. Great system, very smooth, and quite usable. But I still didn’t find myself using it much. Only as a reading device once again. So, I’m about to part ways with it.
BUT before I let her go to some anonymous eBayer who won’t love her like I did, I thought I’d open it up to friends and readers if anyone is interested. It’s in great shape (I care for my tech very much…). It comes with:
• Nook Color (8GB internal memory)
• 32GB SD card now loaded with Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean)
• Leatherish folding case I bought from Amazon less than a month ago
• Charger and USB cable
• Original box and manuals
Now before anyone worries, the way an SD card works with Android is that it’s “dual boot”, meaning the original Nook software is STILL fully there if you wanted to simply use this as a Nook with a 32GB card for book/video storage. OR you boot into Android from the SD card and you have a fully functional 7″ tablet that runs all the Android apps (including Nook, Kindle, Kobo reading apps, which is what I did). This Nook is NOT rooted – it runs either regular Nook software or SD card Android. It’s also a clean install – I wiped everything and reinstalled the Android software on the card, so it’s all ready for a new user.
The 32GB SD card with Android alone is selling for $60 on n2a’s site; a used Nook Color is running in and around $100 on eBay for BuyItNows. I’d like to get a minimum of $100 for the full package with US shipping, to someone who will love it, and hold it, and squeeze it, and call it George.
DISCLAIMER: I’m only offering to sell/ship this to US addresses, sorry in advance. I just can’t get involved in international shipping, customs forms, and so on. Hate me if you must, but I’m inherently lazy.
If you are interested, email me (NOT a comment on this post…) at sumstead [at] gmail with an offer. I’d like to say the “first $100 wins it”, but first might leave out someone who really wanted it. Instead I’ll say 48 hours from now (2PM ET Sunday) I’ll “close the bidding” and best offer wins it, and I will ship it (US only, remember!) for free. I will provide a PayPal link to the winning bidder (no, no personal checks, money orders, or IOUs). If winner doesn’t pay, or lives somewhere on the Kamchatka Peninsula and never told me, I will award it to bidder #2.
This is a secret bidding, so no…I will not be posting current bids or anything. Offer what you want to buy it for. It’ll be like those charity functions that have the Chinese auctions. Or something like that. I think.
So…you in?