Would appreciate some recommendations because Reddit is of course infested with China Bad brain worms and will insist anything Chinese is E Waste.
However, I also know fuck all about tablets. The only important things I’ve noted so far is that it:
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Needs more than 4GB RAM. 6-8 is noticeably better.
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Root accessible to debloat it (if necessary)
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Good keyboard compatibility.
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Small. Its to replace the bulk of carrying a laptop around, so I’d prefer iPad mini sort of size.
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Long lasting + reliable (not E-waste).
Those seem to be my only requirements really. Its main use would for writing/researching on.
I’ve got a Redmi phone that I’m very happy with for how cheap it was, pretty much always worked flawlessly, good battery life, shite camera (don’t care about that anyway), does everything I want it to do. Could do with debloating but I never bothered.


The aldocube stuff w the helio g99 are not bad. I think they have a mini at 8 inches and another one that’s 10. All unlockable with the mtkclient stuff.
They advertise as 12gb but actually have 6+6 swap, that’s still in your range.