If you look at the hardware inside an Android tablet (ARM processor, few hundred megabytes of RAM) it’s very much the same a mobile phone from 5 years ago.

Touch screen is bigger, battery should last longer, but in terms of bits making it go, it’s pretty the same as Microsoft CE hardware.

Buying a tablet is a lot easier than taking an old phone and installing Linux on it, which is another way of getting VLC.

One day they’ll probably build the lot into a belt buckle with quantum internet access. Hopefully without Microsoft being around to screw up good hardware.