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Originally Posted by DNSB
Sadly, if you look at the hardware requirements for the various flavours of Android, you can see the hardware requirements climbing.
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True although the PineNote open source eink tablet was able to run Android 11 on 4GB of RAM, and the Moaan Inkpalm Plus was able to do it on 2GB of RAM, both on the Rockchip RK3566 SoC, which got a 5022 Octane V2 score compared to 1694 for the MTK 8113T used on a recent Kobo:
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/RK3566_...se-Engineering
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Rockch....741611.0.html
https://www.notebookcheck.net/MediaT....865473.0.html
Then with the new Androids needing 8GB of RAM, Google still offers the Android Go edition, which can still get by with 2GB RAM, but has restrictions (which are probably not critical to an ereader.):
The following features are disabled by default on Android (Go edition):
Picture-in-picture support
System alert Window permission (draw over other apps)
Split-screen or multi-screen window
Live wallpapers
Multi-display
Shortcuts or deep shortcuts in the launcher
Reduced maximum width and height of any image in remote view
VR mode
Note: This is not a comprehensive list and there may be other minor features disabled on Android (Go edition).
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/androidgo