Believe me, I'd love for someone to take up a fund to pony up the cash for a variety of different Chinese off-brand devices and really put them through their paces with webOS.
Shanzhai devices though, as they're typically called, tend to be of highly variable quality and a vast majority just tend to either fail in performance or build quality...most of the time, both. Those that are made well cost much higher overall comparative to their low-quality counterparts--oftentimes much more than one would be willing to pay since almost none have any enforceable warranty outside of China. You just have to hope you're dealing with an outlet or manufacturer that wants to do its customers right at that point.
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The reason I'm frankly so annoyed whenever someone brings those products up as solutions for Open webOS is because
not one of the people that talks them up or mentions them as a serious solution has ever bought one for themselves. Even months after I've challenged the various people that talk them up to put their money where their wishes are, still nobody's done a test case to share with the webOS community. Instead, it's just more unqualified claims proclaiming
"Hey, these cheap Chinese devices could run webOS!" and that wears on the community over time with absolutely zero follow-through by the same folks making these bold claims, leaving false hopes in their wake.
If someone actually put their money where their hopes are and tested even a couple of those devices for themselves, it might just put the question to rest once and for all whether the results come out good or bad. The next time I hear someone claiming these devices are a potential solution, I want to see a review of one they've bought and used for a couple of weeks
themselves instead so they can speak as an
informed voice as to whether it's going to disintegrate in my messenger bag or not on Day 3 or work like a dream because the no-name manufacturer actually managed to give a damn.