Dear industry: I want a 7" tablet that has 2GB to 4GB of RAM, and costs $99. I do not care about battery life (will always be tethered to charger), storage (so 16GB for Android or 32GB for Windows is fine; the absolute minimum either can realistically not choke the tablet to death with), and CPU/GPU is I only partly care about (Cherry Trail era x86 SoCs used in some Windows 7" tablets are fine, and they go for $99 to $199).
The reason why I ask for that? $99 gets me 1GB + 16GB usually, I have to go the whole way up to $199 or more to get 2GB. Modern OSes just are not really suitable for 1GB, I don't know why these devices even exist, they can't actually be used.
I'd love an engineer rugged tablet. 8", 8GB RAM, a few usb3.0 type C ports, a few sdcard sockets, microhdmi, not slim, with a nice battery, gps, accelerometer, nfc.
My Amazon Fire works pretty well flashed to stock Android, certainly worth the $35. Once you get rid of the Amazon bloat it runs swimmingly, even with only 1gb of RAM.
I have an original generation Kindle Fire, with the 512mb of RAM.
Yes, even back then, I forcibly reflashed it with a community build of CyanogenMod (started with 4.0 when Amazon's was based on 2.3, now running 6.0) because of how bad Amazon's default ROM murdered performance, even before I ran anything.
The reason why I ask for that? $99 gets me 1GB + 16GB usually, I have to go the whole way up to $199 or more to get 2GB. Modern OSes just are not really suitable for 1GB, I don't know why these devices even exist, they can't actually be used.