I may be mistaken, but Google's "search monopoly" doesn't exist. A monopoly means not only you dominate in a field, but you purposely exclude others. No PC or smartphone or tablet ships with Google search only. When you buy your computer, there is no "google tax" that you can't remove from the price of your PC. I can *easily* on any device I own use whatever search engine I please whenever I want. You can rant all you want about Google and their nefarious plot to subjugate the world, but they are coming by that power by us giving it to them, not back-door licensing deals that force your device to use Google and only Google. Google is nothing like Microsoft, and your attempt to frame this in a "Both sides are bad, so vote Republican" manner is disingenuous and frankly rather pointless. \veteran of the Microsoft F***ed Me wars \\OS/2 2.x beta tester

Looks like it will be a bit more painful to do so, because the reports show it *without* a card slot ("You store all your goodies in the Cloud"). Not near as easy to hack as the Nook Color. Smells like the IOPener a bit to me..