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  Samsung Tablets Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-09-27 12:10 +0100
    Re: Samsung Tablets AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2025-09-27 08:51 -0700
      Chromebook or Androidbook? AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2025-09-29 02:33 +0000
    Re: Samsung Tablets mummycullen@gmail-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (MummyChunk) - 2025-09-27 13:22 -0400

#150743 — Samsung Tablets

I generally like Android devices if they're close to stock, without any 
manufacturer customisations that are "different for the hell of it".

My tablet is a Huawei running Android 9, it fell foul of the Google/USA 
export restrictions, so never got any major version updates, just fixes. 
Anyway it's showing its age.

I've always thought Samsung Galaxy Tab devices were too expensive, I 
don't want an S-Pen, or a clip-on keyboard, or even a camera on a 
tablet, so haven't ever considered them ... but thinking about a Galaxy 
Tab S9 FE (maybe even the S10 FE, but not the + versions, or the S11).

Anyone have one, does the UI feel "too Samsungized"?  Suppose I should 
go take a look in a shop ...

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#150747

On 9/27/2025 4:10 AM, Andy Burns wrote:

> I generally like Android devices if they're close to stock, without
> any manufacturer customizations that are "different for the hell of
> it".

I recently bought this DEZLTID Android tablet. I Apparently got one of
the last ones from Amazon (now no longer available) but it's probably
available elsewhere. It works great as a basic standard Android tablet.

<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FB38NG7J>

> My tablet is a Huawei running Android 9, it fell foul of the
> Google/USA export restrictions, so never got any major version
> updates, just fixes. Anyway it's showing its age.

Dunno about frequent updates. Its last security update was 3/5/25 but
since I don't keep anything sensitive on it that's not a problem for me.
YMMV. (I use my Chrome OS tablet/stuff for that as they get very
frequent security updates.)

> I've always thought Samsung Galaxy Tab devices were too expensive, I
> don't want an S-Pen, or a clip-on keyboard, or even a camera on a
> tablet, so haven't ever considered them ... but thinking about a
> Galaxy Tab S9 FE (maybe even the S10 FE, but not the + versions, or
> the S11).

Don't give up on the no-name tablets. All I've had have worked as well
as my more expensive Samsungs (some better).

My most recent toy is an ONN 7" tablet ($50 US). It uses the Android "Go
Edition". That's apparently for under-powered tablets like this one. So
far I've not noticed any difference from regular Android and it runs all
my regular apps just fine.

<https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0839KPC4Z>

> Anyone have one, does the UI feel "too Samsungized"?  Suppose I
> should go take a look in a shop ...

My local places like Best Buy have a limited tablet supply to choose
from. But Amazon makes things so easy to return if I don't like them...

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#150787 — Chromebook or Androidbook?

The Qualcomm Snapdragon Summit has been a whirlwind of information this
 week, and surprisingly, some of the biggest news has nothing to do with
 phones. Just a couple of days after we heard from both Google’s Rick
 Osterloh and Qualcomm’s own CEO that the Android and ChromeOS merger was
 real, but we were still left with two massive questions: how and when?
 Well, in a different product announcements keynote, Google’s head of the
 Android Ecosystem, Sameer Samat, just gave us the answer to both, and it’s
 “something we’re super excited about for next year.”

If Sameer Samat’s name sounds familiar, it should. He’s the very same Google
 executive who stirred the pot back in July with his statement that ChromeOS
 and Android were “combining into a single platform,” a comment he later had
 to clarify. But this time, there was no ambiguity. Speaking on stage at
 Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit, Samat gave us a much clearer statement on the
 future of Google’s computing platforms.

    Obviously, we want our devices to work seamlessly together. We have
 different devices, and you want your AI to work across all of these—that’s
 the new area we are driving toward.

    If you think about the laptop form factor, we’ve had ChromeOS for a long
 time and we’re super committed to that platform and it’s been really
 successful for us, we’ve learned a lot from it as well. We also have
 Android tablets that have been super successful, they’re becoming more
 productivity machines all the time. So I think the opportunity for us that
 we see is how do we accelerate all the AI advancement that we’re doing on
 Android and bring that to the laptop form factor as rapidly as possible,
 and also have the laptop and the rest of the Android ecosystem work
 seamlessly together.

    So what we’re doing is we’re basically taking the ChromeOS experience
 and re-baselining the technology underneath it on Android. So that
 combination is something we’re super excited about for next year, and we’re
 working with yourselves [Qualcomm] and others on it, and we can’t wait.

How the Android and ChromeOS merger will actually work

Based on that quote, it sounds like we’ll get the user interface and
 experience we know from ChromeOS, but it will all be running on top of a
 foundational Android base. Samat explained the reasoning behind this
 massive undertaking: to “accelerate all the AI advancement that we’re doing
 on Android and bring that to the laptop form factor as rapidly as possible”
 and to make the entire ecosystem “work seamlessly together.”

This isn’t ChromeOS running Android apps in a container anymore. This is one
 unified platform, bringing the best of Android’s technology to the laptop
 form factor with the ChromeOS user experience on top.
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The hardware is already on the way

And it’s no coincidence that this announcement was made at a Qualcomm event.
 We’ve been tracking the development of the first Snapdragon X Plus-powered
 Chromebooks for months now, with devices codenamed ‘Quenbi’ and ‘Quartz’
 looking to be the first of this new wave of powerful, efficient machines.
 These devices would be perfect launch vehicles for this new, merged OS.

Since November 2024, when the merger rumors first started popping up, we’ve
 been sharing our thoughts on how this might work and what it will mean for
 all of our ChromeOS fans out there. Now we have a timeline and a bit of a
 technical roadmap. Needless to say, we’re excited for 2026. It is shaping
 up to be the most transformative year for Google’s computing platforms we
 have ever seen.

<https://chromeunboxed.com/its-official-google-says-the-android-and-chromeos-merger-is-coming-next-year/>

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#150753

> Andy Burns wrote:
> I generally like Android devices if they're close to stock, without any
> manufacturer customisations that are "different for the hell of it".
> 
> My tablet is a Huawei running Android 9, it fell foul of the Google/USA
> export restrictions, so never got any major version updates, just fixes.
> Anyway it's showing its age.
> 
> I've always thought Samsung Galaxy Tab devices were too expensive, I
> don't want an S-Pen, or a clip-on keyboard, or even a camera on a
> tablet, so haven't ever considered them ... but thinking about a Galaxy
> Tab S9 FE (maybe even the S10 FE, but not the + versions, or the S11).
> 
> Anyone have one, does the UI feel "too Samsungized"?  Suppose I should
> go take a look in a shop ...




Looking in the shop is always the best bet! 


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