Chinese KitKat

[geoffrey mendelson]

On 1/6/2014 6:37 AM, Shlomo Solomon wrote:
> IIRC Android 3 was a tablet only version and the various sub-versions
> of 2 were/are for phones. That's probably the reason 3 has disappeared,
> since all the tablet specific stuff was merged into 4.
Thanks, that explains it. I was wondering what happened. :-)
>
>  As for apps dying, I agree with Geoffrey, but I would also add that 
> even an app that doesn't connect to anything eventually stops working 
> on an older phone/tablet for the simple reason that the apps become 
> more and more bloated as features (often useless ones) are added so 
> the same group of apps that ran fine on my Galaxy S a couple of years 
> ago eventually "choked" the phone and I had to decide if I wanted to 
> delete half the apps or get a new phone.

When my younger sons got  smartphones, we were looking around for 
something cheap. The phones that ran Android 2 in our price range all 
had 800mHz (most 512mHz) or less CPUs, 1gigabyte of ROM and 384meg of RAM.
The same phones (often only 100 NIS more) in the improved, LG calls them 
the II (roman numeral two), versions had a 1gHz CPU, 4g ROM and 512meg 
of RAM, enough to make a difference in performance and the number of 
apps you can have running.

So buying the II version was definitely worth it, and the older phones 
are basically museum pieces, where you can see what people did with 
smart phones two years ago.

Geoff.

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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.