Cheap Tablets?

[Gwadien]

Just used my Dads Nexus to read a book, and after playing around highlighting stuff and playing with it a bit I decided it'd be cool to grab one myself for when I go back to Uni, since the E-library supports downloading books onto tablets and the books they don't have are like 50p on ebook as opposed to £30 from America.

Although, all I want is Books, interactive interface, (ie not the black and white kindle ones) and Wifi (For Facebook and basic stuff like that.)

After Amazon searching tablets, there's a few on there that are lesser known brands for like 40 or 50 English pounds.

Was wondering if anyone had any experience with them, I mean, for what my requirements are (not planning on playing games) I can't see them not being powerful enough, unless they break alot ofc.

Danke

 

[Madmaxx]

Using a budget android device is fine as you can get apps like Kingsoft Office on the google play store that will open up word,excel, powerpoint and pdf files; I use a cheapy tablet so I can have the lecture slides and takes notes at my own pace as sometimes I cant keep with the the guy taking a lecture I went for budget so its wifi/wireless connection only I didnt want the 3g Sim charges, which is actually fine since most uni's probably have wifi all over campus.

My one isnt for sale at Tesco right now but I got it for like £50 (35 after staff discount bitch!!), but heres the link for specs etc:

http://www.tesco.com/direct/archos-80-cobalt-tablet-8-8gb-wifi/247-0605.prd

All I would suggest is getting one with a SD card slot, then you can chuck all your work/notes/music/pictures/resources I have a 16gb card and I pretty much use my tablet as a Glorfied usb stick charge it the classroom by usb cable to.

 

[soze]

I have bought several cheap tablets for my goddaughter. The are that cheap for a reason. If you budget can stretch to it I would got for a £100 Nexus over anything else. I sold one that was 7 months old on eBay for £70 recently so they can be had cheap.

 

[Rubric]

I wanted a 10 inch for just watching tv shows on, i picked one up for £170 its an asus and now ive disabled all the bloatware it came with and installed google now launcher it runs like a dream for what i want it for.

 

[miri]

Wouldn't touch an Archos with a bargepole. Awful bits of tacky kit built on a shoestring. We review them and break them all the time. Best budget option is by far and away the Nexus 7 (2013 version) or an Amazon Kindle Fire. Tesco Hudl is decent but had a lot of bloatware iirc.

 

[Tom]

Don't buy a second-hand Nexus 7, apparently they have major hardware faults with the RAM, leading to mucho lag.

I have an Xperia Tablet Z, not a bad tablet and even that lags sometime.

 

[Scouse]

If you're just reading books use yer phone

 

[DaGaffer]

I'm actually doing the same research at the moment to get tabs for the kids (they have DVD players attached to the back of the car seats but they're increasingly fucked and I never really keep DVDs anyway, as I rip and stick them on the server straightaway). There's no point in getting anything as good as a Nexus, since I'll be stripping down the menus to have like one media player button, one books button and maybe Youtube if I'm feeling generous/foolish, or maybe using a kid friendly sandbox like Famigo.

The Hudl seems like a reasonable bet, I'm a bit iffy about Archos because I've used them in the past and thought they were crap. For the money it looks to me like the Asus Memo Pad might be the best device out there. The other alternative would be the Kindle Fire (which also has kid-friendly options) but I'm not sure about Kindle's and how much normal Android stuff you can do on them.

 

[Gwadien]

Been looking at Nexus ones, they seem to be topping the charts, and the 2012 ones are going for £120 rather than £200, and the only difference (apparently) is a front facing camera.

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/39366842/869736142/-/ListingDetails.html?_$ja=tsid:13315|cat:39366842|prd:39366842&$$ja=cgid:7025486097|tsid:48121|cid:130773417|lid:54129045657|nw:g|crid:37478049297|rnd:15931714461444109160|dvc:c|adp:1o4|mt:

 

[Litmus]

Been looking at Nexus ones, they seem to be topping the charts, and the 2012 ones are going for £120 rather than £200, and the only difference (apparently) is a front facing camera.

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/39366842/869736142/-/ListingDetails.html?_$ja=tsid:13315|cat:39366842|prd:39366842&$$ja=cgid:7025486097|tsid:48121|cid:130773417|lid:54129045657|nw:g|crid:37478049297|rnd:15931714461444109160|dvc:c|adp:1o4|mt:

And the new one is quite a bit fast iirc

 

[DaGaffer]

Been looking at Nexus ones, they seem to be topping the charts, and the 2012 ones are going for £120 rather than £200, and the only difference (apparently) is a front facing camera.

http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/39366842/869736142/-/ListingDetails.html?_$ja=tsid:13315|cat:39366842|prd:39366842&$$ja=cgid:7025486097|tsid:48121|cid:130773417|lid:54129045657|nw:g|crid:37478049297|rnd:15931714461444109160|dvc:c|adp:1o4|mt:

Apparently not. Lot of hardware issues reported with the old version.

 

[Overdriven]

Apparently not. Lot of hardware issues reported with the old version.

Have the newest one, not a single issue.
GF has the older one, not a single issue.

Probably lucky of the draw though?

 

[Gwadien]

Have the newest one, not a single issue.
GF has the older one, not a single issue.

Probably lucky of the draw though?

fuck off lol, you can't read.