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 <scruss@gmail.com> 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-shutti...
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.
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