Mediapad T1 8.0 Custom Rom [RECOMMENDED]
The Huawei MediaPad T1 8.0, released in 2014, was a budget-friendly tablet with a solid build and an 8-inch display. However, like many devices from that era, it suffers from a fatal flaw in 2025: software stagnation . Officially, it runs Android 4.4 KitKat (with a few models receiving an update to Android 5.1 Lollipop), skinned with Huawei's dated Emotion UI (EMUI 3.0).
Larry Burns
Larry Burns has worked in IT for more than 40 years as a data architect, database developer, DBA, data modeler, application developer, consultant, and teacher. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Washington, and a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Seattle University. He most recently worked for a global Fortune 200 company as a Data and BI Architect and Data Engineer (i.e., data modeler).
He contributed material on Database Development and Database Operations Management to the first edition of DAMA International’s Data Management Body of Knowledge (DAMA-DMBOK) and is a former instructor and advisor in the certificate program for Data Resource Management at the University of Washington in Seattle.
He has written numerous articles for TDAN.com and DMReview.com and is the author of Building the Agile Database (Technics Publications LLC, 2011), Growing Business Intelligence (Technics Publications LLC, 2016), and Data Model Storytelling (Technics Publications LLC, 2021).
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