I collect old android and this just so happens to be pretty common where i live! this one in specific i plan to give to my girlfriend, its running stock android 2.1 atm but im gonna custom rom it to 2.3.
There’s a chance it doesn’t speak the necessary protocols for modern websites.
A chance? It 100% doesn’t.
A surprising number of websites still work with these old devices though. I have an OG HTC Dream and it will go to more websites than I’d think it should.
Wouldn’t this be horrendous on an information security level? Thousands of exploits patched since this version of Android.
Guys, don’t make me get out my HTC Magic.
God I miss HTC. Such nice phones
Same. The touch pro (running Windows) remains one of my favorite phones. I just want a physical keyboard
Well they still live as Pixel phones.
I still have my Dream… do I win?
I have one in a drawer. My fave trick was sidearming it 50m and not breaking it. Nokia has nothing on this skimming stone.
It’s running CM9 but very, very slowly. I made a video of the speed regression.
CM7 was way faster.
I had a sony xperia go about a decade ago. One time I decided to see if I could even break it. I threw it up in the air in a concrete parking lot as high as I could (about 50-70 feet I think) and it landed on the concrete, nothing but some scratching on the plastic.
But I will say that today I have a Pixel 8 and I dropped quite a few times, some of which left me scared to look, and it is holding up amazingly.
I’m waiting for my Pixel 6a to spontaneously combust.
I miss small phones.
I have the new Fairphone and yeah… small phones were nice. I remember my first smartphone the Google Nexus 4 (I waited long before buying one), and I still think that it was the biggest that it should have been
Imagine today’s PPI/ppcm scaling to <5 inch screens
If she loves to tinker with old devices or just needs a dumb phone, sure!
If you want them to have a functional smartphone, Android 2 is unfortunately super dead. The only Google service/app still working is Google Maps (you need 6.14, from 2014).
There are no projects to port newer browsers to Android 2, so you will get by with what you can. The last browser to have dropped Android 2 support is Via Browser (4.0.9) around 2020. If a custom ROM to Android 4 is available, you will be able to install the latest version of this browser, but it is still the last browser to still support it.
Still better than Apple
Well… yeah
