Tablet recommendations for an imbecile...

ourmaninthenorth

TTony said:

What sort of phone does your wife use?

If it's an iPhone, then the similarity between iOS on phone and iPad would strongly suggest iPad despite the iPad often being the more expensive option.  The familiarity is worth paying for.

It's also worth considering what she'll use the tablet for, and then compare the range/quality of apps available for those purposes on Apple vs Android.

Alternatively, if she's just going to be reading books, one of the dedicated book reader devices is probably cheaper and more suited to that particular task.

She's using a Samsung Tony....she likes the Samsung 10" tab thingy she was looking at in tesco earlier, which at £170 I thought was daftly overpriced, until I've just looked at the Apple stuff, and now realise I'm the daft bugger vis vis the cost of these gizmo's. 

It's my intention to buy a few downloads of films and boxsets to break up the time she'll be spending in the chemo suite. 

I may just buy her a book, and dig out me old walkman....

Thanks very much for all the input Gentlemen, which despite my frivolity, is especially appreciated.

Sporky

ourmaninthenorth said:

She's using a Samsung Tony....she likes the Samsung 10" tab thingy she was looking at in tesco earlier, which at £170 I thought was daftly overpriced, until I've just looked at the Apple stuff, and now realise I'm the daft bugger vis vis the cost of these gizmo's. 

Don't look at the cost of the Samsung Tab S3 then.

I think £170 is a bargain for a decent 10-inch tablet if you think about all the bits that are involved, and fitting them into a pretty slim package.

underdog

For the basics the Amazon tablets are good, and cheap.

ourmaninthenorth

Sporky said:

ourmaninthenorth said:

She's using a Samsung Tony....she likes the Samsung 10" tab thingy she was looking at in tesco earlier, which at £170 I thought was daftly overpriced, until I've just looked at the Apple stuff, and now realise I'm the daft bugger vis vis the cost of these gizmo's. 

Don't look at the cost of the Samsung Tab S3 then.

I think £170 is a bargain for a decent 10-inch tablet if you think about all the bits that are involved, and fitting them into a pretty slim package.

Bloody hell...I'm glad it was just me looking.

My cards have just had a heart event....

ourmaninthenorth

underdog said:

For the basics the Amazon tablets are good, and cheap.

That's another one my good lady likes...the Fire HD 10.

Seems to be between the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Fire, both around 150-170 nicker.

Which one Lads?

crunchman

ourmaninthenorth said:

underdog said:

For the basics the Amazon tablets are good, and cheap.

That's another one my good lady likes...the Fire HD 10.

Seems to be between the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Fire, both around 150-170 nicker.

Which one Lads?

I'd go Samsung.  With the Amazon one it locks you into their ecosystem.

Grunfeld

ourmaninthenorth said:

That's another one my good lady likes...the Fire HD 10.
Seems to be between the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Fire, both around 150-170 nicker.
Which one Lads?

I was really impressed with the screen image on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 and 3.  The 10".

And because that's the thing you're staring into I have that right at the top of my check list.

I'd have gone with the Samsung if I could have.

underdog

crunchman said:

ourmaninthenorth said:

underdog said:

For the basics the Amazon tablets are good, and cheap.

That's another one my good lady likes...the Fire HD 10.

Seems to be between the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Fire, both around 150-170 nicker.

Which one Lads?

I'd go Samsung.  With the Amazon one it locks you into their ecosystem.

It doesn't, you just need to install Google play services on there, takes about 5 mins.

Sporky

ourmaninthenorth said:

Sporky said:

ourmaninthenorth said:

She's using a Samsung Tony....she likes the Samsung 10" tab thingy she was looking at in tesco earlier, which at £170 I thought was daftly overpriced, until I've just looked at the Apple stuff, and now realise I'm the daft bugger vis vis the cost of these gizmo's. 

Don't look at the cost of the Samsung Tab S3 then.

I think £170 is a bargain for a decent 10-inch tablet if you think about all the bits that are involved, and fitting them into a pretty slim package.

Bloody hell...I'm glad it was just me looking.

My cards have just had a heart event....

I got mine at Samsung staff rate. Plus a packet of chocolate Hobnobs for our Samsung rep.

CHRISB50

At home we have a Hudl, an Amazon Fire HD, a Tab and 2 iPads.

The iPads are by far the best. Although yes, they are the expensive option.

I work for one the rival manufacturers but as a consumer I'd still choose Apple over our own products.

Hootsmon

Nitefly

crunchman said:

ourmaninthenorth said:

underdog said:

For the basics the Amazon tablets are good, and cheap.

That's another one my good lady likes...the Fire HD 10.

Seems to be between the Samsung Galaxy Tab and the Fire, both around 150-170 nicker.

Which one Lads?

I'd go Samsung.  With the Amazon one it locks you into their ecosystem.

Our Maud has both - she says the Fire has poor battery life compared with the Samsung.

(Hope the treatment is successful, BTW).

ourmaninthenorth

hootsmon said:

I see you went for the Mk2..bloody yuppy...

ourmaninthenorth

Thanks for all your help Lads, and kind words, much appreciated. 

After vacillating all day between £60 ones ( me) and the price of a small car ones (Swmbo) ...we've ( well I say we...) have decided to go for the Samsung thingy in Tesco at 170 nicker...rather like shoes, the first fookin one she looked at....

Emp_Fab

fob

Would a 10"-12" laptop be more appropriate? She doesn't want to be holding the thing for 6 hours and the stands for tablets aren't great. Chuck a load of films/TV series on and you're good to go.

TheBigDipper

@ourmaninthenorth I'm another iPhone/iPad/Macbook Pro owner and I've never regretted splashing out the extra dosh on them. Some Android units are bound to be better VFM but some others will just be cheaply made and give problems. The Apple stuff just works - as long as you go with the flow and use them the way they were designed to be used rather than expect them to work like a Windows PC or (bless) a Unix workstation. 

However, as a reluctant user of my local chemotherapy suite in 2016 (18 days over 6 months) I can tell you your wife's main activity will be to go to sleep and do nothing. 

Hope it goes well for her. 

Grunfeld

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DiscoStu

ourmaninthenorth said:

Thanks for all your help Lads, and kind words, much appreciated. 

After vacillating all day between £60 ones ( me) and the price of a small car ones (Swmbo) ...we've ( well I say we...) have decided to go for the Samsung thingy in Tesco at 170 nicker...rather like shoes, the first fookin one she looked at....

I'm late to this thread but was gonna say the Samsung Tab A6. Is that the one you've bought?
I got it for work 18 months ago and it's so good that I use it every day for non-work stuff too.

ourmaninthenorth

TheBigDipper said:

@ourmaninthenorth I'm another iPhone/iPad/Macbook Pro owner and I've never regretted splashing out the extra dosh on them. Some Android units are bound to be better VFM but some others will just be cheaply made and give problems. The Apple stuff just works - as long as you go with the flow and use them the way they were designed to be used rather than expect them to work like a Windows PC or (bless) a Unix workstation. 

However, as a reluctant user of my local chemotherapy suite in 2016 (18 days over 6 months) I can tell you your wife's main activity will be to go to sleep and do nothing. 

Hope it goes well for her. 

Thanks Pal.