(it’s a tablet in a smartphone form factor, it doesn’t have cellular connectivity)

For reference, android 14 was announced 6 months before the launch of this device.

It’s a bit surprising that Google still allows device certification with such ancient, unsupported and vulnerable OS.

All the marketing materials don’t say which CPU it’s using except “Qualcomm octa core CPU” - that means nothing as the description could apply to the Snapdragon 415, which was a low end slow system on a chip released ten years ago. Maybe it could explain why they’re using an ancient version of Android - the soc that they’re using it’s a leftover found in some warehouse and it’s already unsupported by the manufacturer; they’re forced to use android 11.

  • @Clusterfck
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    65 months ago

    Yeah, I see both parts of this.

    BOOX advertises “Super Refresh” which makes eink almost able to play a YouTube video. There’s a lot of software (and probably hardware) development there.

    Google still issues security patches for Android 12 as well.

    It could be much worse. At least BOOX issues updates….