Early adopters of Dell’s RealSense-empowered Dell Venue 8 tablet rejoice! Users are reporting that they are receiving a large update that will bring their tablets into the age of Android Lollipop. But early adopters also beware! Dell is doing something that no OEM has dared to do when upgrading their devices from pre-Lollipop to Lollipop. It seems that Dell has chosen to force data encryption on owners of the device as part of the update process, whether they like it or not. And some will definitely not.
Normally, we’d advocate data encryption, especially in this day and age of rampant malware and spyware. Apple already encrypts its devices and, for a time, it seems that Google would be following suite. In fact, its newest Nexus devices did come with encryption enabled by default. To be fair, Android already had that feature a few versions back, but Google was expected to make that the default configuration for newer devices.
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