£50 for a tablet computer

[sandbender]

Never buy version 1 of anything, but still £50, not bad for those who want to read some books or make digital notes when out and about.

Amazon Fire

Not for me though, I'm a pen and paper man.

 

[Robbi]

But how much is Amazon Prime each month ?

 

[sandbender]

But how much is Amazon Prime each month ?

Do you need to have prime? if so I missed that.

 

[Robbi]

I presumed you did, could be wrong though ( wouldn't be the first time !! )

"Prime members can stream thousands of Prime Instant Video titles, access over 800,000 book titles, thousands of audiobooks and over a million songs Prime members can download thousands of Prime Instant Video movies and TV shows to watch offline anywhere"

 

[British Red]

You don't need to have Prime. We have a Hudl and a Kindle Fire. The Fire is superior in many ways but tightly proprietary.

 

[Robbi]

Oooo, that makes it very interesting indeed, I thought my Hudl was ok but if this is better and at that price, it could well be worth looking at. Cheers BR.

 

[rik_uk3]

Your better paying more for a Hudl 2. The Fire is OK but your tied to Amazon for applications plus there is no expandable memory.

The Hudl is tied to Google but has way way more apps available and you can expand the memory via an micro SD slot...you can install the free Kindle reader too for your ebooks

http://www.tesco.com/direct/hudl/

 

[British Red]

All the Fire range have microSD slots. The Hudl2 is certainly a good buy, but more comparable to the Fire8 in price terms. With 2Gb of Ram and a 1.8Ghz processor its probably better in raw hardware terms. The basic fire is akin to a Hudl1 in specs, but at £50 new.

 

[mick91]

But how much is Amazon Prime each month ?

£5.99 for prime instant video or £~70 for full prime and worth every penny. I order from Amazon quite a bit and the tv service is good, we keep a regular kindle in the bathroom for light reading while occupying my throne! Never used a fire but supposedly quite good

 

[rik_uk3]

No SD slot on the HD Fire that I could see

'Memory Card Slot

No


Allows certain items to be played from compatible memory card such as videos, music and photos

Number Of USB 2.0 Ports
1


Other Port Connections
Slimport


Allow you to use cables to connect to a range of devices'



Read more at http://www.tesco.com/direct/fire-hd-6-6-tablet-8gb-wifi-yellow-2014/660-9196.prd#vk3EUzt62py6HO5W.99

They may do on some models perhaps but I think the Amazon rational is they want you to store on 'the cloud'. I store on the cloud but also have back ups of the backups offline at home.

My lad won some Argos vouchers recently and picked up a Lenovo tablet, about ninety quid and thats pretty good, fact is all these tablets do a good job these days. I bought a budget tablet about three years ago for around £100 but there is no comparison to the tablets these days, in fact my two and a half year old grand daughter uses it to watch Pingu lol

 

[Robbi]

• Free unlimited cloud storage for all Amazon content and photos taken with Fire devices. Add a microSD card for up to 128GB of additional storage

 

[British Red]

• Free unlimited cloud storage for all Amazon content and photos taken with Fire devices. Add a microSD card for up to 128GB of additional storage

That's the one Robbi. It's actually superior to the Hudl which can only handle cards up to 32Gb

 

[neoaliphant]

The hudl2 is very good for the price in terms of display and speed, the only drawbacks are storage (16gb) and small sd card caopacity(32gb)

you can get a 7" samsung tab 3 for £60, so the fire tablet isnt very good
can be rooted easily.
and the otterbox case for it on amazon is reduced from £60 to £6 as its an older tablet.

and you can get a 10" asus transformer for £80 if you want larger screen, i use one as a monitoring system for my ip cameras.
again easy to root.

so i dont think the amazon deal is very good


and if anyone wants a large screen powerfull but cheap phone keep an eye on asus zenfones

for the lower end, vodafone smart phones can be got for £30 new on amazon, or £40 in vodafone store.
if you buy payg vodafone you get unlimited data access for 30 days
so if you just buy a sim every month, unlimited internet.
and for that price its cheaper to buy a phone than a mifi or dongle, and you have the phone features.

 

[rik_uk3]

That's the one Robbi. It's actually superior to the Hudl which can only handle cards up to 32Gb

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/review/a...-hd-7-vs-fire-hd-6-comparison-review-3588453/ Not superior at all. Google Drive is good for not only cloud storage but as a productivity suite.

 

[British Red]

The point Richard is that accepting 128Gb is superior to accepting 32Gb

The article you link to is not comparing the new £50 Fire but the old Fire HD7. Sure the Hudl2 has a higher spec, thats not a surprise, it costs twice as much as the Fire that is the point of this thread.

I'm not anti Hudl, as I said from the outset, I have one. But the 1Gb Ram old Fire that we have beats the 1Gb Hudl that we have in terms of performance and reliability. I still think that the new £50 tablet that should broadly equate to these in terms of performance is a bargain. It'll be fine for watching videos, surfing the web etc.

Whats not to like? If thats all someone wants to do,why pay more?

 

[mousey]

Last Christmas I got an OTPC for my eldest, it had 2gb ram, 1.5ghz dual core, 8gb storage [upgradable by 32gb SD] for around £40. Did very well for surfing the net playing games etc. I just don't see the point in spending 2 or three [indeed up to 10] times the amount for a branded tablet that has the same or in some cases less specs. It even had an aluminium back plate rather than plastic.

 

[rik_uk3]

The point Richard is that accepting 128Gb is superior to accepting 32Gb

The article you link to is not comparing the new £50 Fire but the old Fire HD7. Sure the Hudl2 has a higher spec, thats not a surprise, it costs twice as much as the Fire that is the point of this thread.

I'm not anti Hudl, as I said from the outset, I have one. But the 1Gb Ram old Fire that we have beats the 1Gb Hudl that we have in terms of performance and reliability. I still think that the new £50 tablet that should broadly equate to these in terms of performance is a bargain. It'll be fine for watching videos, surfing the web etc.

Whats not to like? If thats all someone wants to do,why pay more?

No, its more but not superior Hugh. 32GB is more than enough, certainly for me and I look at the hardware more than extra storage. You can have all the storage in the world but if your machine is slugish it means nowt.

The fifty quid tablet is good value for money if your a light user and or on a tight budget.

 

[rik_uk3]

Well, I checked my Tesco 'boosts' and found I had almost two hundred quid to spend

So via 'click and collect' I ordered a lot of stocking fillers including one of the fifty quid Amazon tablets for my little granddaughter and its good value for money.

Added a 16gb sd card loaded with peppa pig and the night garden plus the youtube app so she's sorted on xmas day.

 

[British Red]

They are down to £35 on amazon Richard!

 

[crosslandkelly]

They are down to £35 on amazon Richard!

Going to have a look at that now, thanks.