the potential victim is samsung galaxy a03 core:
1. it looks funny
2. it's cheap on used market
3. it has the soc by a manufacturer i never heard of (unisoc)
Back when I did (native) Android development I kept checking my app on my old old phone running 4.4. This had the side-effect of making me keep the minSdkVersion that low, at a time when Android 9 or 10 was already a thing... meh.
For web dev I kept doing the same until I eventually gave up because I figured most of the overhead was in the browsers themselves (as even DuckDuckGo was getting sluggish). These days I just use my old laptops for low end testing, with the advantage of more convenient instrumentation.
Also it is annoying/disappointing to have apps and websites that are smooth on old hardware... until e.g. a Google Maps or YouTube embed gets loaded and everything suddenly becomes much slower.
theres this brand called alcatel which makes devices which are genuinely the shittiest possible pieces of equipment that support web things, theyre very cheap too
tbh just get one of those Android Go phones (or a midrange with a chip used in them), in Google's infinite wisdom they decided to minspec them to 2GiB RAM and 32-bit instructions and bc of the latter especially they run terribly
i (briefly) had the shittiest alcatel burner phone running android go, that struggled with everything
definetly low end, but also only like $25 so even if it's too shitty it's not too much lost
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1. it looks funny
2. it's cheap on used market
3. it has the soc by a manufacturer i never heard of (unisoc)
funniest is probably a ebook that runs android tbh
You won't find a lower end phone than the piece of junk they hand out.
definetly low end, but also only like $25 so even if it's too shitty it's not too much lost