Chinese Android

[L. V. Lammert]

There appear to be no US manufactured Android Tablets with a scanner
[laser], so I found a bunch on Alibaba - for example:

http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Rugged-android-7-inch-touch-screen_60116581761.html

Does an international unit work OK here in the Use (e.g. Play Store)?
Should it be expected to run a current browser w/HTML5?

Thanks!

Lee

[Minjie Xu]

I think you need to root the original OS, which is very likely customized for China, with Baidu app store etc. My understanding is Google Play and Google service does not work reliably there. Once you root, I guess you can do a lot of things you want. 

Btw, I don't know if you can actually buy things from Alibaba, you may check out Amazon, dx.com or Taobao (some offer overseas shipping, but the website language is predominately in Chinese). 

Cheers,

Minjie

[Ben]

You're definitely most likely going to have to shoehorn the Play Store onto there.

"Run a current browser" is kind of a stretch - it says it's running Android 4.2 which is coming up on 3 years old. That gets you the buggy system WebView and not Chromium. You could install Chrome if you could get Play Store access onto it, but that won't help you if you're installing an app that is just a WebView wrapper.  

They replaced the WebView with a (fall 2013-ish release of) Chromium in 4.4, and in 5.0+ the WebView component is kept in line with Chrome automatically by silent Play Store updates.

I also would _never_ expect any sort of OS update for any device like that, but I assume if you're looking at specialized hardware like this, you're already used to that.

[Mike Gaffney]

How much they charging for one of those?

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[L. V. Lammert]

On Thu, 30 Apr 2015, Mike Gaffney wrote:

> How much they charging for one of those?
>

IIRC, ~$550, .. have not gotten a quote yet.

Lee