- Gizmodo, Friday, October 9, 2009 2:36 PM
Barnes & Noble's forthcoming eReader will run on Google's mobile operating system Android, an unnamed source tells Gizmodo. Making the partnership more likely, is the fact that Barnes & Nobile has
"conveniently" stalled on releasing an Android app, long after they went to market with iPhone and BlackBerry versions of the mobile ebook software. Gizmodo, for its part, thinks the move "would be
pretty fantastic, and it's eminently plausible.
"At six inches, it's a smallish device, and we've seen Android on similarly-sized screens already ... Wireless connectivity is built into
the OS ... Extraneous, inappropriate software and settings could be easily stripped out and replaced with relevant ones."
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