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by cf100clunk 31 days ago
The situation right now with the Doogee U10 tablet: not commonly available.

Once the news gets out about epic breakthroughs on commodity hardware and devices, there's unfortunately a likely spike in the purchase cost, even if such devices can be found at all anymore on the usual online sources of new and used goods.
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bdcravens 31 days ago
Supposedly it's available from a third party on Best Buy, with delivery in about 10 days: https://www.bestbuy.com/product/doogee-u10-android-13-tablet...
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cbdevidal 31 days ago
After seeing the headline I immediately checked eBay and they are available to ship to the United States for $80 total.

https://ebay.us/m/fYqBgc

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teraflop 31 days ago
That seems to be an official listing from the manufacturer. If so, it's really shady that they prominently advertise it as having 9GB of RAM, when what they really mean is 4GB RAM + 5GB "extended RAM", and by "extended RAM" they mean swap space.
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fwipsy 31 days ago
Their official website advertises it as 16gb. But why stop there when they could go to 128gb? My laptop has TWO TERABYTES of potential RAM (pRAM!)
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jeroenhd 31 days ago
It's quite common for the manufactured e-waste that gets sold on sites like these. Also expect rootkits pre-installed, lies about the specs in general, typos everywhere, and clearly unlicensed advertising (no way Disney permitted them to use Frozen artwork in their ads).

They're trying to pawn off something with the resolution of the Steam Deck at 10.1 inches running Android with what I would consider the minimum RAM loadout for this device.

The supposed EU-compliant informational brochure I found on a local web store states that the device runs Android 13, so there's a good chance they're either lying about the Android version on eBay or they're faking out the Android version like many Temu phones do.

These devices are useful for two things: to keep kids quiet with a device that can be replaced for not too much money, and now as a means to run Debian on.

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saghul 31 days ago
I went on Aliexpress and I seem to be able to get it for 73 euro.
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cf100clunk 30 days ago
I've looked again on Aliexpress and all I see there are accessories for the Doogee U10. Anyway, there seems to be quite a bit of that stuff for the U10.
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tech4bot 31 days ago
Yes, that’s a fair concern.

The tablet is from around 2023, with later revisions around 2024. My point was that this kind of older cheap hardware is already out there in people’s drawers.

If a device can boot from SD and the hardware can be documented enough, it becomes a good candidate for reuse instead of becoming e-waste.

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