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Originally Posted by DavidTC
So is there any progress on this? I'm looking into buying something to replace my InkBOOK, and it seems idiotic that the next version of the hardware is still running Android 4.2.
And I do not understand why I can apparently buy the larger screen devices with a newer Android version, but not the 6 inch ones.
And the 'battery life' excuse is nonsense. I mean, I've heard that too, but newer Android versions are actually better at battery life, not worse! 6 introduced Doze mode, and 7 made it better.
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I know most people blame the manufacturers but I realised after looking deeper into this that its not usually the oem's fault entirely as they are hamstrung by the part manufacturers most times.
One of the reasons I am hoping that e-readers start adopting android 8 or higher as with android 8 and above android has been tweaked that it will be easier for oem to to update android without needing to update the drivers for different parts.