Android and the Race to the Bottom

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story imageOne thing is certain about Android phones and tablets: it keeps getting cheaper to have one. HP has thrown itself into the fray with a $99 tablet boasting some mediocre specs and a great price tag:
The tablet rocks specs not that much better than HP's ill-fated Palm TouchPad. The 7-inch screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600 and the package is powered by an Allwinner Technology A31 SoC that features four Cortex A7 cores clocked at 1 GHz along with a Power VR SGX544MP2 GPU and 1GB of RAM. But it's only $99.
Get one now for cheap, so when they release Android 5 ("Lollipop") you can cash in on all the rumored new features , like fitness links, upgrades to security, audio, and video, and Project Hera , "Google's effort to unify the Chrome browser with Android and Search."

Granular app security, firewall, root? (Score: 2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-05-23 11:27 (#1W0)

A new chinese phone will come rooted which means easy firewall and better app permissions and phone security. So, will Android 5 finally giveus user set app permissions (no! you may not have internet access! denied and stop trying to enable wireless!) or an easier path to root?

Android is one of two horses in the mobile race... but will they give users what they need.

Meanwhile, My phone is powerful enough to run linux. Why make it hard to do so?
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