help with buying a tablet

crystal9

Hi All,

I am looking at buying my son a tablet for his birthday so he is able to play some music and download apps and games.

i don't need to higher spec as it is only to mainly play games so i would like some help to recommend 1 that is not to expensive. I have seen a couple on amazon at around £50 but am unsure what i am buying really so any help would be appreciated

crystal9

can anyone help me please?

jaydeeuk1

If max is really around £50, then it somewhat limits you with choice anyway. A lot around that price are clones of each other (beware of ones without Google Play). However, Wendy Lou on amazon has a couple for your budget, back in stock on the 22nd Oct

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B008EXTT3Y/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

or

http://www.amazon.co.uk/NATPC-M010S-Pre-order-Capacitive-Responsive/dp/B007JVDM1W/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1349783335&sr=8-3

Lifeforms

stay away from resistive screens for a start.
Find out what games/apps your son would "play" on it.
Frankly don't expect top notch for £50 and under, and decide if it's really something you son would continue to use, or just get left around because it's not quite right, or the game he really likes doesn't quite work, etc etc.

Some people here find the cheaper ones fine, some don't. If you can raise your budget to more along the lines of the Nexus from google (circa £200 in a walk in store) then basically you are setting up your son with a tablet that will last a reasonable amount into the future, will not disappoint him, and will not end up in a box somewhere because it just doesn't do it. Something he'd be proud of, and would last the test of time.

For decent good value tablets (albeit dearer) see this post here

jaydeeuk1

Lifeforms wrote: »

stay away from resistive screens for a start.
Find out what games/apps your son would "play" on it.
Frankly don't expect top notch for £50 and under, and decide if it's really something you son would continue to use, or just get left around because it's not quite right, or the game he really likes doesn't quite work, etc etc.

Some people here find the cheaper ones fine, some don't. If you can raise your budget to more along the lines of the Nexus from google (circa £200 in a walk in store) then basically you are setting up your son with a tablet that will last a reasonable amount into the future, will not disappoint him, and will not end up in a box somewhere because it just doesn't do it. Something he'd be proud of, and would last the test of time.

Very few tablets nowadays have resistive screens.

I'm guessing that the OP, if they could afford to spend £200 on their Sons birthday, they would have asked about tablets under £200.

Bit like wanting to buy a brand new ford focus but being told to buy a BMW M5....

paddyrg

A £50 tablet will end up in the back of a drawer, they start getting decent around £160 for a Nexus 7 machine - before that they will tend to overpromise and disappoint

sa_v6

Have a search on Amazon for 'CloudNine Neuropad Simplicity' for £59. It's meant to be quite good with Skype and Google Apps pre-installed. The only thing that lets it down is the screen quality - but it's still a good deal!

crystal9

thank you all for your advice, i know i am not going to get a lot for the money i have to spend but he is only 9 and i have 2 other sons who also want some expensive things for christmas, my son will play games like angry birds,cut the rope etc all from android.

thank you jackdee the white one you gave link for is the exact one i was looking at, so this in your opinion is going to be ok?

jaydeeuk1

Yup, angry birds and cut the rope will work fine on it. It won't be the quickest tablet in the world, but for games like that and music it will be spot on. Not worth blowing the budget if that is all it will be used for.

mwddrwg

Bought one each of the £60 Android tablets for the kids for Christmas. Great little machines that do exactly what they need (games and iPlayer). As they're only 8 they don't need to last for years so at that price they're ideal. It'll give my Samsung Galaxy S2 a rest from Bad Piggies as well!

sillygoose

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Yup, angry birds and cut the rope will work fine on it. It won't be the quickest tablet in the world, but for games like that and music it will be spot on. Not worth blowing the budget if that is all it will be used for.

Spot on advice through this thread jaydeeuk1 :T. I think a lot of people recommend products they own but have not actually tried some of these cheaper products. For the purposes that many people need they are perfectly acceptable.

Proud owner of a Huawei mobile phone!