
15 May
2016
15 May
'16
1:42 p.m.
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. Stewart