Russell Coker via luv-talk <luv-talk@luv.asn.au> writes:
I've got a Note 10.1 2014 edition. I can't remember when I bought it, probably late 2014 or early 2015 as I tend not to buy things when they first come out and have the highest prices. Even so it was slightly expensive, around $600. Wikipedia says that you can upgrade it to Android 5.1, but I am running Android 4.4.2 with no updates being offered. Mine has 32G of built in storage and I haven't needed the SD storage much, but it does suppport 64G of SD storage which might be handy at some future time.
Same here. There is an unofficial version of AOSP somebody built and provided that is newer then what Samsung offered - which was pretty good, however seems that project is dead now (at least last time I checked, and I doubt anything has changed). I imagine the person responsible lost interest. It could be that this project is what that the wikipedia article was referring to with the 5.1 upgrade. If you want, I might be able to find the link again. I got put off buying from Samsung after this purchase, as they don't provide OS support nearly long enough (this was the 2nd Samsung tablet I have purchased with this problem), and Cyanogen support is often sadly lacking (as was the case of this device) [*]. I don't want to buy a new hardward just because the manufacturer says I should, especially if the existing hardware is still capable of working fine with the latest software. Curiously, one of the Samsung tablets (can't remember which one now, maybe the 1st) I purchased did not support making phone calls. Until I replaced the firmware with unofficial firmware on the Internet. Then I started receiving wrong number phone calls from people in Queensland. Obviously software, not hardware limitation. So I wouldn't make the assumption that all tablets support phone calls. At least with Nexus devices, when Google stops providing updates, Cyanogen (now Lineage) is a pretty good option. Footnote: [*] actually that may have changed now: https://download.lineageos.org/lt03lte https://download.lineageos.org/n1awifi Interesting... wonder if this is any good. Or is this just the preliminary cyanogenmod work that never got anywhere useful and had large gaps in required functionality? -- Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/