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My Lenovo Tab2 received one update. Yet I still prefer it to a Fire tablet. If you were to take a poll of Fire tablet owners, I doubt regular O/S updates would be one of their primary reasons for purchase. |
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Phone companies would rather have users upgrade the phone so they don't typically support OS upgrades. Other Android devices are different: NVidia, for one, has supported their SHIELD streamer for three years and three OS versions with no end in sight. Amazon made it clear years ago that, because they make most of their money when people use their hardware, they don't have a need to force hardware churn. It's like with the ereaders where they still support the very first kindles in one form or another. That is typical behavior of content-focused players vs the hardware focused players. In that Amazon is more like the console vendors than Apple or the phone vendors. They make more money off the content so they prefer you use older hardware and spend your money on content. There is more profit in selling $100 of ebooks than in a $100 tablet. So upgrades make sense for them. And I'm not the one saying that android updating is a problem: it is the tech industry, from Google on down, saying it. Here: https://searchmobilecomputing.techta...-more-problems |
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If your tablet works for you and you aren't sideloading .apks from sketchy third party sources, you should continue to be fine. Updates or no. How many people refuse to upgrade from Windows 7 or even Windows XP? |
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Most software still works with Windows 7 though but there are plenty of apps that no longer work with older Android (or iOS) versions. My wife has been running into this constantly recently. Apps that work on my phone don't work on hers because the OS hasn't been updated recently and she doesn't want to get a new phone (they're all too big).
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Me either. I'm not quite sure what the issue is here. Almost all Android tablets have a limited number of updates. But you're still looking at (probably) five or six years of usefulness from one of these Nook tablets, despite what happens with Barnes & Noble. Pretty much the same as with all Android tablets.
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I noticed it has the same screen resolution as the fire 10"
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So, I guess I should say, for my limited Android needs the Nook Tablet would probably be useful for five or six years. |
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As long as the content providers themselves keep on supporting the old versions of the apps the device will remain useful. (Not a certainty, though. Quite a few services update their apps regularly.) A problem of some concern is malware. The internet is a dangerous place so an old browser exposes the device to viruses and hacking. Old android devices constitute one of the bigger targets of botnet operators and the Play store is not immune from infiltration with trojans. There are more risks in outdated software than in the hardware. |
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For powerful devices like tablets the battery will degrade to the point of being unusable much sooner than that. Not just that they won't hold power, but that they will generate enough excess heat to cause instability. I have a NotePro 12.2 tablet, which I've had for about three and a half years. Battery life has dropped from 10-12 hours to maybe and hour or two if you are lucky. Once it gets below around 40% it is likely to spontaneously reboot, and it does that a couple of times a day regardless of charge level. It is permanently a bit too hot to be comfortable around the top middle of the screen. Power socket still works fine, but the headphone socket has stopped detecting whether headphones are plugged in. If there was an equivalent replacement I would have got one at least a year ago, but there isn't. I'm still running Android 4.4.2, so I agree with your general point that the hardware remains useful long past any OS updates, but I think the viable timeframe is much shorter than you think. Battery technology is the limiting factor for most tech. Last edited by murraypaul; 11-20-2018 at 07:35 AM. |
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But I have a Vista era Netbook that (through multiple upgrades up to Win10) still works. Battery life is less than two hours. But it still runs fine. Noticeably better than when new thanks to the OS upgrades. The power connector is mostly okay. A bit loose. A replacement battery is $15 but running it strictly off AC is good enough. My older-still Compaq tablet works fine off battery but the power connector just won't connect. I have an external battery charger and a spare so it works on battery power but it's too much of a hassle to bother. At the day job the experience is similar; power connectors and batteries are the first to go, screens the last. |
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