FWIW, My only deal-breaker requirement on android is access to Google Play. That eliminates some promising equipment (ie the Kindle android-ish bargains) but is a long-term defensive strategy.
On 15 May 2016 at 15:42, Stewart C. Russell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2016-05-14 08:49 PM, Evan Leibovitch wrote: > > > > None of these is e-waste. Even old tablets that will never run anything > > newer than Jellybean can serve real purpose > > Except when they're like the Nook Color, running a walled-garden limited > Android version that the vendor has closed down their branded app store: > > http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/4/11160942/barnes-noble-nook-app-store-shutting-down-march-15th > > Shame; it's a nice bit of hardware. > > It would be really nice if these old devices were able to run a proper > Linux, but they rely on boot blobs, so they won't. > > Stewart > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Evan Leibovitch Geneva, CH Em: evan at telly dot org Sk: evanleibovitch Tw: el56
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