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Evercoss Winner Tab V specs at a glance. Anda berbicara bahasa Indonesia? Baca artikel terjemahannya di sini ! Last year, for business purposes, my workplace decided to purchase Evercoss Winner Tab V, a very delicate entry-level Android tablet. The tablet currently serves as a template and benchmark device for our web apps. Even though the specs are... well, let's say they reflect its highly-affordable price... the tablet itself is pretty good. In fact, to our surprise, we just realized that it's been upgraded to Marshmallow. Yes, the Winner Tab V, which comes with Lollipop (Android 5.1) and costs less than $100 has received the major update to Marshmallow. Don't hold your breath for Nougat, though... However, the update process isn't as easy as OTA. You need to flash the firmware. Yes, you read that right--flash the firmware, which may include risks such as brick and bootloop. The instructional video listed on the device's support page wasn't helpful, e...

Android Lollipop brings a lot of improvements, but if the firmware is still unofficial, God knows what bugs still live inside the software As you can see from my review  here , some Evercoss One X units ship with a  user debug version of Android Lollipop. User debug basically means that it's still in beta stages and (probably) not ready for prime time due to bugs (camera flash and battery drain). What's worse is that it won't get official updates from Google, considering the firmware as 'tampered' and 'unofficial'. I don't know how a company as big as Evercoss could make such a mistake, as other Android One manufacturers don't seem to have the same issue. If you want to get the best of your phone, then you'll have to upgrade it to stock Lollipop. There are actually two ways to do this: either go to the official service centre and have them upgrade your phone or do it yourself. The former consumes more time since you have to get there and qu...

Update: Thanks to a feedback from a reader ( +CharlesAlva ), I've discovered a few bugs that may hinder with user experience. I've just updated the article to uncover those bugs. Update 2: I've managed to update to stock ROM (not  user debug). I'm going to post the steps I went through to install it later today. Stay tuned. Update 3: Something came up. I can't post it today. I'm going to post it in a few days. I'm terribly sorry for the inconvenience. Update 4: It's Up! You can read it  here . Enjoy! In Indonesia, people of higher society has one interesting stereotype: local brands are inferior compared to imported brands. This stereotype is applied not only to food and fashion items (some excluded), but also to electronic devices as well. Most higher end people wouldn't even bat an eye for local products. Most of them would rather just take a Samsung or an iPhone instead. However, I think that's about to change, thanks to an initi...