I’ve got an old Lenovo Tab3 850M table, running Android 6.0.1
It’s pretty vanilla and I haven’t installed any custom ROMs or rooted the device. The battery is in pretty good condition and the table can idle for around a week I think.
It has an 8 inch IPS display, Quad-Core 1.0GHz ARM Cortex-A53 CPU, ARM Mali-T720 MP2, 500 MHz, 4-Cores GPU, 2GB of RAM, and 16GB internal storage. The cameras are pretty terrible (even for 2016 standards), and the battery is 4300mAh.
What useful things can I do with it?
There are people still looking for older cheaper devices cause they can’t afford newer devices. If you are not using your device, imho it would be used better with someone else.
Use it as a digital picture frame.
It’s no Kindle, but should still be a good e-reader. Don’t forget about Libby/Overdrive, see if your local library is on the list.
Yeah, I’ve used it as that for now but the display strains my eyes. Is there any app/feature which could help with contrast and readability?
I’ve been ok with my Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, which is quite a bit newer… But I have to ask, are you reading with black text on a white background?
Android 6 and 2GB RAM are still pretty sufficient, that should run everything important. I’d try to flash some lightweight ROM (maybe with higher Android) or at least debloat, and just use it normally for whatever I’d use a tablet for.
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