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Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet

posted by janrinok on Thursday May 10 2018, @02:32PM   Printer-friendly
from the wild-dreams? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

I tried searching and came to the conclusion this does not exist. I would like a tablet with the following features:

  • Easy to install (or pre-installed) LineageOS, or some other open source OS that doesnt require any fighting with bloatware or control over updates (please give your opinion on what is best)
  • Easy to open up and repair (and mod) the device hardware myself without any special tools (ie, standard electronics screwdrivers, etc)
  • Matte screen with dynamic range that allows the screen to be bright enough to use in the sun but dark enough to use while falling asleep.

I don't plan on using it for anything besides basic web browsing and pdf reading, so it should be cheap. However, price is no object if it has those features. There was one other soft criteria but it sounded like an ad so I removed it... See if you can guess.

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  • (Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday May 10 2018, @04:28PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Thursday May 10 2018, @04:28PM (#677975)

    I remember seeing an early Kindle e-ink device software-modded to play video, the problem (as I recall) being that such fast refreshes drained the battery much more rapidly - e-ink is extremely efficient at displaying a static image, not so much during the normally-infrequent updates. (There might also be some long-term endurance issues, that would be worth researching).

    The point though, is that there's nothing about e-ink that makes it inherently sluggish, that's down to the software decisions made by the manufacturer. I rather wish someone would make an e-ink screen laptop for outdoor use, maybe we'll get that once they'd got color working reliably. A shame that nothing much ever came of Pixel Qi's transflective display.

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