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Originally Posted by viceant
Do you know whether latest Boox devices implement Snapdragon? If I had to buy a 10" device, I would buy one which could be updated.
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I don't know. Having snapdragon doesn't mean easier to update. It means open source (and optimized) kernel on best case scenario.
FW updates, between android versions, rely on compatible Hardware Abstraction Layer (hal). Until very recently that involved vendors reworking that driver. Now google is trying to improve things adding a description language for hardware abstraction (HIDL) See
https://source.android.com/devices/a...ture/hal-types. So, in theory, devices that use the new hal+hidl are easier to update by vendors, which only need to update the driver to match the new api but don't need to update the (internal logic of the) driver itself.