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Google Android 1.6

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  • Lucero_2
    Lucero_2 Posts: 283 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    Looking at the spec sheet, it has a 300mhz processor. The memory size is low too. If I'm honest, I'd be surprised if this will run Android 2.1 but I'll continue to check around.
  • Yolina
    Yolina Posts: 2,262 Forumite
    edited 26 October 2011 at 10:01AM
    I know you were after a bargain, but looking at the specs in your link, there's no wi-fi n (only b and g) and a resistive screen... A bit bleuh really, I hope you got it dirt cheap.

    edit: max capacity supported for an external micro SD is also only 16GB so not much extra storage to be had either I'm afraid :( (most tablets and phones will take a micro SD card up to 32GB)
    Now free from the incompetence of vodafail
  • Kopite73
    Kopite73 Posts: 29 Forumite
    Sorry, I don't know what wi-fi "n" is (or "b" and "g") for that matter lol It does connect to our wi-fi, in fact that's about the only thing I managed to get to work !
    My wife saw it on a Facebook buy-and-sell page and at only £30 it looked like a bargain so I got it for her... admittedly without doing my homework on the specs, etc first.
  • Lucero_2
    Lucero_2 Posts: 283 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    Wi-Fi (n) is the latest "draft" of wireless range and speed. It's no massive biggy but it would have been nice.
  • Yolina
    Yolina Posts: 2,262 Forumite
    If you only paid £30 for it then fair enough :)
    Now free from the incompetence of vodafail
  • jayme1
    jayme1 Posts: 2,154 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    a device like this is really only good for web browsing, because it is not a google sanctioned device then the chances of you getting 'market' on it are slim to none, therefore you will need to use a service like getjar to get apps on it, or manually find and download the .apk and install.

    I would be surprised if there has been any ROM development for it so you likely won't be able to upgrade it to a newer OS which would likely present more problems than leaving it on 1.6

    so use it for web browsing (facebook has a website and most apps do) and download apps/games from somewhere like getjar
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