While the Nook Tablet «s initial setup has some major flaws, from locking up the majority of the storage space to simply lacking a halfway
decent app store, it is still pretty smooth and comes equipped to take on most third - party video purchases.
By releasing
a decent app store (it's decent given its B&N's first attempt) B&N has transformed the Nook Color from Reading Tablet to Tablet even for people not willing to hack it.
Not exact matches
Apple and Android headset manufacturers like Samsung and HTC love AR because it's tech - intensive; customers with older phones need to buy newer, more expensive models if they want to download
decent AR experiences from the
app store.
These days if an
app is even a
decent one there are a number of reviews available online, in a magazine, or at the very least within the
app store, you will be making the download from within.
You'll need at least an iPhone 4S or iPad 3 to be guaranteed a
decent play experience, though if you fancy risking it, the
App Store description claims that it's «possible to download this title to an iPhone 4» but «performance is not guaranteed».
With the glut of tower defense games on the
App Store, it can be hard to stand out, but a
decent premise backed up by solid gameplay can do wonders for making your mark.
Combine that with the usual Apple goodies like zippy performance, a bright and sharp display, more than
decent battery life, and a rich
app store, and you have another chapter of the iPad success story in the making.
You still get the Amazon
App Store preloaded, but this tiny tablet features impressive parental controls, a user - friendly interface, solid performance and
decent battery life in a colorful and sturdy design.
The tablet itself has
decent hardware for a kids» device, including a quad - core processor, front and rear - facing cameras, up to 128 GB of expandable storage via a microSD slot and access to Amazon's
app store.
To Apple, then, the slow - paced rise of
decent iOS Web
apps is a win - win: It proves the company's point that such
apps are a realistic
App Store alternative, and the company can reverse course at any time should it feel that the
App Store model is in any way threatened.
If Nook
App Store ends up with 1,000
decent, 3.5 star rated
apps by mid 2011 and the Kindle
App Store has 100 perfect, 4.5 star rated
apps with perfectly manicured nails it'll be game over.
But you can pick up an iPod touch for less money than an Archos 5 and you get a web browser,
app store with more than 150,000 applications, and a
decent media player.
Amazon's AppStore doesn't have as large a selection as Apple's
App Store or Google's Play
Store, but there's a
decent set of free and paid
apps available.
The new additions join a
decent, if not spectacular, selection of third party applications in the Nook
app store, including Scrabble, Netflix, and the omnipresent Angry Birds.
Although the Amazon Appstore has a
decent app selection it's not anything close to what the Google Play
Store offers.
With the
App Store and its excellent design the iPhone does a few things exceptionally well and is
decent or good at a lot of other things.
Now, the Vox isn't as well spec'd as the Fire or the Nook Tablet — it's only got a 800 MHz single - core processor and 512 MB of RAM — but it does have a relatively clean version of Android 2.3, access to over 15,000 free Android
apps through a third - party
app store, and a
decent selection of Kobo's books.
The
store has access to a
decent selection of phone
apps, but a number of the important ones are missing, including Facebook, Pandora, etc..
«Maybe once it becomes popular, people will finally start writing
decent apps for it, and more movie and music companies will come to the Google Play
store.»
The Nook
app store has
decent selection of add - ons and although it is steadily expanding, the range of games lags behind that available for the Amazon Kindle Fire or the iPad, and individual
apps sometimes cost more.
You've got a
decent media player, plenty of space to
store songs, lots of streaming music
apps to try, and a 3.5 mm headset jack that'll help your phone replace your iPod.
Add some Pokemon, which I have scoured the
App Store in search of a
decent clone of this, and some zombies, we are left with an unlikely hybrid in Kasimono.
There's a pretty
decent assortment of Adventure Time games available on the
App Store now, and while they're not exactly blazing trails for the hobby, just about all of them are quite a bit better than a lot of licensed titles end up being.
There really aren't enough
decent 3D platformers on the
App Store.
I tend to recommend the Mac
App Store (MAS) because it's so easy to use, but the lack of
decent Multiplayer features was becoming harder to ignore and it was a shame that some gamers had to give up on multiplayer altogether.
That said, there are already several
decent iOS
apps (some dating back to the original
App Store debut in 2009) that allow creation and editing of documents in MS Office formats, so Apple probably doesn't feel too compelled to give Microsoft any relief here.
All in all, I'd say Google is making
decent progress with Android
apps on the devices they currently work on, though I also understand that the delays in rolling the feature out to more Chromebooks is frustrating to many users, especially ones who purchased a Chromebook with the expectation of being able to access the Play
Store before now.
If true, this could address the tremendous lack of
decent apps on the Mac
App Store, which, as Bloomberg describes, is a «ghost town.»
Version 2.6 for Android Wear was recently made available for download in the Google Play
Store through its companion phone
app, and there's a
decent amount of new features here that should make using Android Wear all the more enjoyable.
There are a handful included on the device with a
decent collection of more small
apps available in the Play
Store.
Sure, there are all the
apps you ever want in the Play
Store and it has pretty good battery life, USB - C, and a
decent screen, but when you're used to having the latest software and the best cameras, the Pixel 2 will not disappoint.
If you want somewhere to keep a log of all your sleeping and daily activity habits, what you eat, what you drink, and somewhere to
store all of your tracked workouts, it's a
decent all - round
app.