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> I think you mean the "plus" not "pro"

Yes, you're correct (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08F6FYN6B). Wireless charging and 4gb RAM vs 3gb. I think the 2021 Fire HD 10 Plus may have been the only ~10-inch tablet ever with Qi charging.

For a thin & light e-reader/browser it's really perfect because it sits on the cradle on my nightstand always charged and ready to go. The display size feels like a hardback page. Now that it's been rooted, I'm really hoping for Lineage OS.

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btw I've discovered you can turn on the display by tapping a magnet at the upper left corner

it's a pain compared to tap-to-wake but we'll have to wait for that

better than reaching for the power button in the dark, you can put magnet on a string or tape

I think it's meant for cases to turn on the screen when you open their flap

I basically need a 10" tablet as my android "phone" because I'm old/sick and cannot see tiny screens so the FireHD 10 series is perfect

and everything is stupid apps now, even blood pressure meter needs an app

OH I forgot to mention you can run system-user as a pseudo-root too, even before this root method was invented

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> Now we'll get LineageOS on this with newer Android within another year

I would very much like that, but do we have a solution to the locked bootloader? My recollection is that on previous fire tablets, the only way to get a custom rom was to do an ugly hack that still uses the stock kernel because that's the only thing that's signed in a way the bootloader will run. Which is still something but it's a big caveat.

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They've managed to unlock the bootloader on Fire tablets up until 2019

so just guessing give them a year, lol

what will drive it to happen is Amazon is still selling hundreds of this tablet via Woot for $25-$35, they drop it in batches every few months as they refurb them

Mine looks and works like brand new for $25

Just without LineageOS I cannot do tap-to-wake or dual-mode usb-on-the-go while charging like the pre-2019 tablets

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