Kitkat and SD

[mistofeles]

Will there be a kitkat upgrade for SM-T 230 ?
Will it solve the SD card problem of Lollipop ?
Will it give permission to remove the factory installed useless software, which is eating the flash of the device ?
Is the upgrade going to prevent rooting the device ?

The 7" form of the device is great while you are travelling light. For some funny reason Samsung thinks that these small devices are toys.
I'd be ready to pay more to get 7" device with at least 128GB of flash and 4GB of RAM. And a 10 hour battery even if the device gets a little more fat.

My opinion is that 8" is too large to fit in your pocket and 10" devices are for home and office use, where you have a good network. Travelling with a 7" device you can never trust to have a good net in the woods or a cheap net in a foreign country.
My opinion is based in experience in travelling in most parts of the globe by flight, train, cycle and boats.

 

[daffyducknj]

Upgrades usually kill rooting efforts. Most stock ROMs that come straight from the device maker usually allow a few apps to be uninstallable; most can only be disabled if the device is not rooted.

You can insert a 128GB SD card. That's the only way to upgrade the storage. If you want to expand internal storage, the device will have to be rooted, and use an app linker such as Link2SD after properly formatting and partitioning the external SD card.

For the last point? Install enough stuff you can use offline until you get someplace with decent wifi. With a wifi only tablet, you might look for a solution that will allow smartphone tethering. That would allow you to use your cell phone's signal if you want to surf with your tablet in places that lack wifi. Even in the U.S., I have trouble getting decent net service, especially in rural areas, like in the middle states (Kansas, Nebraska, etc.).

 

[daffyducknj]

Oh yes... no Lollipop for the Tab 4 7 inch yet.