<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>How much was it? I'm not sure they're very useful as general purpose tablets, but it occurs to me that if they're cheap enough, they'd make great special purpose touch screen devices. Maybe as a fixed security entry device or a order taking device in a restaurant or something like that.<br><br><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Boris Borisov" <bugyatl@gmail.com><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, March 24, 2013 12:18:07 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>[ale] OT: Android native code<br><br>My latest device that I bought from BigLots is cheap tablet 4" with<br>moderate specification written on the box but in reality the situation<br>is different. As I mentioned in previous post some of the RAM is<br>locked so there is only 340 MB available. CPU claims 1 Ghz but<br>actually Android uses between 500 and 800 Mhz. Third thing is the SoC<br>itself. Is not one of the ARM cores it is MIPS 74Kc something with no<br>FPU so there is software FPU running by Linux kernel. I don't mind all<br>issues but the latest is little frustrating. I have tried to download<br>pocket version of Minecraft game ( Yes I have two kids ) and Android<br>warned me " Portion of the game contain native code so it may not run<br>at all on this system" . So it does not run :)<br><br>This is not really a question but just thought. Isn't that some kind<br>of security issue for Android, running native code, isn't that code<br>running outside Dalvik VM. And using native code rejects all other<br>platforms but ARM ...<br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale<br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br>http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo<br></div><br></div></body></html>