10" tablets with Android 6.x?

[Elliot B.]

Can anyone suggest any 10" tablets with Android 6.x?

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 will receive the Android 6.0 update sometime in the near future, according to http://www.androidauthority.com/android-6-0-marshmallow-update-649110/. 

[+Fahim S. MVC]

The Google Pixel C might be worth a look

[Elliot B.]

So basically, high-end tablets only so far

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

not 10", but my Nexus 9 has android 6.

[Anibal P]

On 2/9/2016 at 5:58 PM, Elliot B. said:

So basically, high-end tablets only so far

Those are usually the only ones with a current version of android

[PGHammer]

Verizon Wireless (yes, I know - carrier-specific) is running a Black Friday special on their Ellipsis (put it this way; my MOM bit, and she already HAS a tablet - specifically, a SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab 4 running KitKat - and she's not firing it; she fired her PHONE, but for different reasons).  Eight inches (diagonal) of Android Marshmallow-y sweetness.

Naturally, I wound up with her OLD phone  (which I promptly blanked and threw the current nightly of CM13 (Marshmallow) on).  I'm using it as a dual-wi-fi tablet until I can grab a Tracfone SIM kit and port my Tracfone feature phone over (likely next week after a call to Tracfone).  The fact that Cyanogen brought Marshmallow over is more than Samsung (let alone VZW) ever did (both left it back at JellyBean).

[adrynalyne]

12 minutes ago, PGHammer said:

Verizon Wireless (yes, I know - carrier-specific) is running a Black Friday special on their Ellipsis (put it this way; my MOM bit, and she already HAS a tablet - specifically, a SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab 4 running KitKat - and she's not firing it; she fired her PHONE, but for different reasons).  Eight inches (diagonal) of Android Marshmallow-y sweetness.

Naturally, I wound up with her OLD phone  (which I promptly blanked and threw the current nightly of CM13 (Marshmallow) on).  I'm using it as a dual-wi-fi tablet until I can grab a Tracfone SIM kit and port my Tracfone feature phone over (likely next week after a call to Tracfone).  The fact that Cyanogen brought Marshmallow over is more than Samsung (let alone VZW) ever did (both left it back at JellyBean).

Their Ellipsis tablets are garbage. 

[PGHammer]

1 minute ago, adrynalyne said:

Their Ellipsis tablets are garbage. 

Depends on the model; in point of fact, most TABLETS are garbage outside of Nexus or Apple - and you pay literally through the nose for those.  I'm not saying that necessarily that the Ellipsis tablets are necessarily "good" - all I said is that they were on sale.  At least the new ones not reconditioned or refurbished - this one was new in-box at the local VZW corporate store - are running Marshmallow.  And it really has NOT helped that Google has moved Pixel high-end.

 

[adrynalyne]

3 minutes ago, PGHammer said:

Depends on the model; in point of fact, most TABLETS are garbage outside of Nexus or Apple - and you pay literally through the nose for those.  I'm not saying that necessarily that the Ellipsis tablets are necessarily "good" - all I said is that they were on sale.  At least the new ones not reconditioned or refurbished - this one was new in-box at the local VZW corporate store - are running Marshmallow.  And it really has NOT helped that Google has moved Pixel high-end.

 

I'm not even talking about the OS version; they break. We have several of them at home (my wife went hog wild one year) and some of them won't even turn on. 

[Open Minded]

25 minutes ago, PGHammer said:

Depends on the model; in point of fact, most TABLETS are garbage outside of Nexus or Apple - and you pay literally through the nose for those.

Didn't a few Nexus tablets have eMMC death?

[PGHammer]

26 minutes ago, adrynalyne said:

I'm not even talking about the OS version; they break. We have several of them at home (my wife went hog wild one year) and some of them won't even turn on. 

How old are they?  And all I said is that they were on sale.

 

The reality is that there AREN'T that many devices running 6.x that aren't either phablets or phones - the only reason I am recommending the Ellipsis is that it's an exception.

 

That my moldy-oldie Galaxy Nexus actually CAN run Marshmallow - despite both Google AND Samsung (not to mention VZW) left it back at Jellybean is NOT exactly a recommending factor to take the word of either for OS updates.

 

And yes, some 2012 model Nexus 7s did indeed have emmc death issues.

[adrynalyne]

31 minutes ago, PGHammer said:

How old are they?  And all I said is that they were on sale.

 

The reality is that there AREN'T that many devices running 6.x that aren't either phablets or phones - the only reason I am recommending the Ellipsis is that it's an exception.

 

That my moldy-oldie Galaxy Nexus actually CAN run Marshmallow - despite both Google AND Samsung (not to mention VZW) left it back at Jellybean is NOT exactly a recommending factor to take the word of either for OS updates.

 

And yes, some 2012 model Nexus 7s did indeed have emmc death issues.

Just shy of two years. 

[PGHammer]

Which pretty much proves our respective points - a lot of TABLETS are garbage.  (I didn't dispute it - or even say that the Ellipsis tablets weren't garbage.)

 

Heck - look at the Notes; the Note7 is Samsung's first "bum" Note in the series, and the critics of non-7 Notes are crawling out of the woodwork.  Meanwhile moldie-oldie Samsung smartphones (such as the Galaxy Nexus) which never got official Lollipop are running Marshmallow (CM13 official, albeit nightly) with barely a quibble.

[PGHammer]

On 2/9/2016 at 5:59 PM, Jason S. said:

not 10", but my Nexus 9 has android 6.

And it now has N (the community strikes again).  That is, in fact, why I'm looking hard at the Nexus 9 as an upgrade option (both for Mom and for me).

 

The HTC-built 9 has several advantages:

 

16GB or 32GB onboard storage (twice that of the Galaxy Tab 4 or Lenovo it would replace) - and that is merely the 16GB version.

It supports larger SD cards than either (256GB vs. 32GB) - though neither of us is THAT much of a data pig.

Better display (both screen and GPU-wise - the 9 is driven by the SAME K1 GPU as the Shield and Pixel C).

Dual-band N wireless support (which the Lenovo lacks)

Former developer platform (one thing about Nexus hardware - even that not in active developer service; it's supported FAR longer than non-developer hardware - that is something my GNex taught me).

Despite the larger screen size, it actually costs LESS than the Nexus 7 in the same condition and the same storage capacity (therefore, a relative bargain).

[Jason S. Global Moderator]

thread is getting a bit long in the tooth. go ahead and start a new one if you'd like.