[clug] Vaguely off topic: iPeds and other Android tablets - availability and comparisons to that Apple one

[Gary Woodman]

--- On Thu, 5/8/10, Angus Gratton <gus at projectgus.com> wrote:

> If all you want is Android 2.2, then pragmatically you
> might be better
> off just buying one of the newer & slightlier pricier
> crop of 2.1
> devices with better hardware, and hoping the manufacturer
> releases a 2.2
> build for it.

That's all very well (and quite likely for 2.1->2.2), but I want my Android box to be more like my computer: I want to install an arbitrary OS at a time of my choosing. I have an almost-ten-year-old laptop running Debian squeeze; similarly, I would like to keep an Android device while I can still get batteries for it and there is still a network to connect to.

It is good that manufacturers provide an upgrade from 2.1 (or any other level) to 2.2, but I'm just as interested in 2.3 and 2.4 and 3.0 and 4.0... I never hear anything about that though. Is it cynical of me to suppose that I must buy a new device?

Gary