browser for old android

[mike_t38]

Is there a working web browser for android 2.1 with endless support ? Im using a smartphone from 2014 and intend to use it forever. Of course [language redacted by Mod] from the Google and Co dont like this kind of affairs when people use old equipment decades on (because if everyone started doing that they would not receive money from sales and would have to shut down the company or work for little profit, what obviously they don't like) they want you to buy a new one every year and old one to throw to garbage, to Africa. So under pretense of security they make web browser unfunctional on old systems, renewing java and all other [language redacted by Mod] so you cannot log in into stupid mail, google drive or open any site, enter capcha, ect. What i found so far out of huge range of [language redacted by Mod] offered today is puffin browser, which later version is supposed to work on 2.3. Is there, can anyone create a good working alternative that would be without stupid security but receive updates on Google tricks to make equipment unfunctional?

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! Please watch your language -- we're a family site.

Technology advances, and older tech gets obsolete -- that's a fact of life. Depending on the tech involved, it often doesn't make sense to continue supporting obsolete hardware with the same software, since newer versions of that software would be hamstrung by having to be backward compatible with all of the older less powerful hardware. There's no conspiracy here to make devices nonfunctional just to make you buy new ones.

Although a browser itself might technically work on such an ancient OS version and device, the device probably wouldn't be able to get much done since Google Play Services has left it behind a long time ago. Your best bet is to search for "browser for Android 2.1" and find an apk of a browser that would be compatible, and sideload it. Beware, though, that installing apks from random sites can increase your risk for malware (and such an old phone will probably have a lot of unpatched security flaws).