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Re:Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with ... by LaurensBER on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:40PM (#16047315)
It's amazing that we can get portable Linux devices with specs like that for so little money these days. It's a shame that Mediatek doesn't respect the GPL so hackability is low otherwise there would be so many prototype/IOT/research uses for a device like this!
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Re:Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with ... by userbinator on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:49PM (#16047367)
Thanks to MTK datasheet leaks (try finding the docs for Qualcomm or even Broadcom stuff...), and the easy rooting (no locked bootloaders), "hackability" is actually quite high. You can also find the source code pretty easily even if it's not officially released --- a lot of these Chinese smartphones are based on the same hardware with only cosmetic differences.

The culture/ecosystem is very different: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4297

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Re:Alibaba’s UC Browser is dominating in Asian markets with ... by snaky on Monday January 01, 2018 @01:47PM (#16047352)
The state of affairs of Linux and smartphones is pretty grim outside of MTK world too.

https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/hwenablement_mainline...

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