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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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Android, IMO, is the least interesting option for a Kobo ereader, unless maybe Android 3 (uses USB MS, not MTP).
It already runs Linux. Android, except if PlayStore apps work, is inferior.
Other interesting alternatives are Symbian (but without ghastly S60) and QNX. Or even RiscOS, the first general purpose desktop OS on an ARM.
Sadly Apple is unlikely to let us have the Newton OS, the first PDA OS on an ARM. Stupid of Steve Jobs to kill it, though it had been over-hyped, it had huge potential. The iPhone used a cut down Mac OS and the GUI was bought in from FingerWorks. Samsung ARM. Copy & paste HW design. Ives is a cosmetic designer copying Braun's Dieter Rams iconic white products, not a SW or HW engineer.