Xiaomi My Pad 5 is a great device for 400$. Hi res, great battery life. Improved user experience, and spied all at once by Xiaomi, Google, Uncle Sam and Uncle

Xiaomi My Pad 5 is a great device for 400$. Hi res, great battery life. Improved user experience, and spied all at once by Xiaomi, Google, Uncle Sam and Uncle Xi. The real magic with android devices is you can (could?) obtain easily superuser privilege just by 'dd' the system partition, install in it supersu binaries with proper privileges and ownership by mounting the said partition on a linux system, and fastboot it back in the tablet. You could also back up your whole data partition in the same way and upload the resulting .img file to mega cloud drive automatically with a script if you had a sd slot in the tablet as a temporary directory... And until KitKat, you could also install and run a full debian system with debootstrap side by side with android with DebianKit on the android kernel (no chroot nonsense). It was a marvel of its kind at time impossible now. That being said, I'm writing this on an iPad.