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So in July this year I bought a Kindle Fire HD 8 tablet on special offer for just £49.99.
I've found it very interesting what I won and lost on the move from the Hudl2:
- You have to buy all your apps again on the Amazon store because the Google Play store isn't on there. I imagine it's possible to overcome this somehow but I can't be bothered.
- Google Play doesn't work on the Fire so any purchases you've made of TV, films or music don't work.
- Weirdly my UE Boom Bluetooth speakers won't work with the Fire because it uses some other kind of Bluetooth. Other Bluetooth speakers might not be a problem but if you own any you'd want to check.
- The sound quality is sufficient to watch a TV program or film - you get stereo sound that isn't great but is better than the Hudl2.
- The best thing about the Fire HD 8 is the battery life. I can now go a couple of days between charges and I use it every day.
My one warning about Amazon devices is to consider what you lose if you currently rely on things you've purchased through Google Play.
Wouldn't bother again. Very small memory and speed is not as good as my wife's Fire.
The newer model seems to be even better.
https://www.ebuyer.com/755452-linx-1020-10-32gb-tablet-with-keyboard-linx1020-bun
You can always put Play store on the Fire. :-)
I did think about one of the convertible laptop ones - are they much better than the Android tablets would you say?
Thanks again - much appreciated
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@fxmunkee I've been looking at those cheapo Win 10 devices.
Do they still work OK with only 2GB of RAM?
What do you use it for?
Want something for textbook size colour ereading... But don't want to spend Surface Pro money
Hannspad titan is about £180
I want a tablet that matches my new phone - 4gb ram, octa processor, qhd screen if possible but actually HD is fine, micro sd slot and android 7.1.1 (or 8, but that's a bit silly to ask for now).
I just can't find anything! They all seem to have earlier OS and lower specs than the phones...
My dad has a kindle fire HD. It's 2 years old and while it's not as fast or smooth as an iPad, it's been tough and reliable with excellent battery life and does everything he wants it to. Great little gadget.
They don't generally sell well though. The bottom dropped out of the tablet market when phablets came along and now Amazon's cheap ones sell because they really are exceptional value.
It's for the simple reason that people don't buy them on contracts so you are hard pushed to sell an £800 tablet. You can buy plenty of high end Windows convertibles though.
EDIT: To get geeky the other thing about octocore processors is that they are a bit pointless in a tablet. The processors in phones aren't really octacore they are more like two quadcore processors in a single die. 4 cores are high performance and 4 are low power cores for doing work in the background. Normally the low power ones are on when the screen is locked and the high power ones are on when you are using demanding apps. Because tablets don't do much in the background and have much bigger batteries there is less point in having that approach.
He ended up going for the Lenovo 10" for £120 at Argos - happy enough with it so far
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Ooo learnt something new, wisdom for you.
Yes, I suppose that's true - I just wish there was a big version of my phone that only had WiFi because it works.
Google have some tablets out, maybe I'll check them out.