[ale] Ultra cheap tablet discussion. Are they useful or can they be made useful?

[Boris Borisov]

The Amazon's 7 inch tablet should have good hardware. It is cheap but you
have to root it. There is plenty info on the web's.

>From my experience once you put Google account on the cheapo tablet and
that makes it gradually slowing down to crawling speeds.

The more ram the better. I have an old one with single core and 1GB ram and
works faster than supposedly 4 core with 512 MB. Yes I have bought all
kinds of junk

But without updates becomes obsolete.

So much disposable hardware nowdays.

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020, 9:04 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I've got several. They are total junk. I've not been able to get deep
> enough to install anything else. Slow. Under powered. Crappy screens. Glued
> shut so opening will make it nearly impossible to reassemble.
>
> I got an Acer with an intel cpu and installed a Linux distro. Has a stylus
> that takes a 4A battery. $150?? Been a while. Used that for overseas travel
> in the event I couldn't get back in with it. Passable.
>
> On June 27, 2020 6:28:19 PM EDT, "Beddingfield, Allen via Ale" <
> ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>> For a couple of years now, I have been seeing these really cheap ($40 to $50) Android tablets in Wal-Mart, dollar stores, and places that normally don't even sell electronics.  Most of them are some brand no one has heard of, or a shameless re-licensing of old school brands like RCA or Polaroid.  I know they are going to be the cheapest of Chinese made junk, but how bad are they?  Would they be usable at all for basic web browsing?  I notice that most of them are running Android 5.0 or 6 .0.  Have any of you played with any of these, or investigated upgrading the OS on them?
>> Allen B.
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