For apple instal Espresso upgrade#

For apple instal Espresso upgrade#

Good discovery! Is it the same hardware/SOC as yours though, or an upgraded system with incompatible kernel? It would be at least worth a call to the tablet supplier to see if they would be willing/able to compile or source a ROM upgrade to 8.1., or even a project for one of your engineering interns.As of this past July 2018, Argos has been selling exactly the same tablet we bought. So, it looks like-with some research work-it should be possible to upgrade the DE1-included tablet to Android 7, and maybe to an open source variant.Good discovery! Is it the same hardware/SOC as yours though, or an upgraded system with incompatible kernel? It would be at least worth a call to the tablet supplier to see if they would be willing/able to compile or source a ROM upgrade to 8.1., or even a project for one of your engineering interns. However, I just looked now, and the current tablet Argos sells (same model as ours) is now running Android 7.0 (though ours is 16gb RAM, not 8gb, as I paid a bit more to future proof it with more RAM).īuy Alba 8 Inch 8GB Tablet - Purple at .uk - Your Online Shop for Tablets, iPad, tablets and E-readers, Technology. The reason the tablet I choose was nice is because it was designed for Argos, a large electronics store in the UK. This also seems to bring it regular security updates, despite still running Android 5.1.Īh, now this is an *interesting* discovery.

One thing I liked about this tablet is that it (unusually for smaller manufacturers) is a Google licensee, with the full Google application set.