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minus-squareIrritableOcelot@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoAll kobos use a custom OS built on Android…8 (lol). Its not recognizable as Android, but it is the base.
minus-squarehamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-27 months agoI’m dubious Android even serves as a base for Kobo’s OS. I’ve seen no evidence to support that claim. EDIT: if you are referring to Tolinos, they are not simple rebrands of Kobos.
minus-squareIrritableOcelot@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoNo, I forget where exactly it was, but at some point last year I was deep in Rakuten’s documentation and it referenced that the Clara HD’s OS is based on a modified Android 8 kernel.
All kobos use a custom OS built on Android…8 (lol). Its not recognizable as Android, but it is the base.
I’m dubious Android even serves as a base for Kobo’s OS. I’ve seen no evidence to support that claim.
EDIT: if you are referring to Tolinos, they are not simple rebrands of Kobos.
No, I forget where exactly it was, but at some point last year I was deep in Rakuten’s documentation and it referenced that the Clara HD’s OS is based on a modified Android 8 kernel.