Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Nigel Wade Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Nexus 7 not going to receive Nougat update. Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 14:28:40 +0100 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <240820161422323787%nospam@nospam.invalid> <240820161457359967%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net wmhCwmX0VPwlk/M7BtRh0AY2SJYNFG3DFcS1zz+yn39h63hdbf Cancel-Lock: sha1:pJC80Aa1hyikZICaChPnmYUAZxE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:33643 On 25/08/16 10:04, David Taylor wrote: > On 24/08/2016 23:47, Ivan D. Reid wrote: > [] >> [10] OK, and a Tesco/Viglen 8.9" W10 tablet when they were selling them >> cheap, but most W10 software doesn't recognise the touchscreen. I finally >> worked out how to access the BIOS configuration pages -- guess what? They >> don't work with the touchscreen, and the virtual keyboard isn't available >> outside the OS! > > You might like to look at the Linx 1010B: > > https://www.amazon.co.uk/Linx-1010B-10-1-Tablet-Black/dp/B014D847FS > > which includes a keyboard and two full-size USB ports. Runs the most recent version of Windows-10 without problems. Windows-10 also runs on a 2008 laptop here. > > As a Nexus-7 owner (2013) I'm very disappointed that Google is offering far less than even Microsoft does. I can run Win-10 on a 2008 dual core, 2 GB laptop, until an automatic update bricks it for you. I've got a reasonably new Surface Pro 3 (yes, hardware and software by Microsoft) which is running Windows 10. I can no longer use an uSD card in the uSD slot because if I leave it there it drains the battery in less than 10 hours. There's no way to revert the update which causes this problem. Thankfully I don't use the webcam, and I don't posses a Kindle Paperwhite. > but I can't (it seems) be allowed to run official Android 7 on a 2 GB, 4-core tablet. But it will at least continue to work, running Android 6. Or would you rather that Google forced the update without adequate testing, and just hoped it didn't brick the device?