(it’s a tablet in a smartphone form factor, it doesn’t have cellular connectivity)
For reference, android 14 was announced 6 months before the launch of this device.
It’s a bit surprising that Google still allows device certification with such ancient, unsupported and vulnerable OS.
All the marketing materials don’t say which CPU it’s using except “Qualcomm octa core CPU” - that means nothing as the description could apply to the Snapdragon 415, which was a low end slow system on a chip released ten years ago. Maybe it could explain why they’re using an ancient version of Android - the soc that they’re using it’s a leftover found in some warehouse and it’s already unsupported by the manufacturer; they’re forced to use android 11.
Yeah, I see both parts of this.
BOOX advertises “Super Refresh” which makes eink almost able to play a YouTube video. There’s a lot of software (and probably hardware) development there.
Google still issues security patches for Android 12 as well.
It could be much worse. At least BOOX issues updates….