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best 7inch tablet for around £100 ?

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  • Truepat
    Truepat Posts: 3,278 Forumite
    At the minute the best value for money 7" tablet is the Blackberry Playbook 64GB at £129 (or cheaper).
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  • sillygoose
    sillygoose Posts: 4,795 Forumite
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    Truepat wrote: »
    At the minute the best value for money 7" tablet is the Blackberry Playbook 64GB at £129 (or cheaper).

    No its not.

    You'll pay for it in the long run. Take one of the most popular apps, Cut the Rope game. Its free on Android, its £2.00 on Blackberry.

    The big hit Temple run, not available on Blackberry.

    Angry Birds is free on Android, £3.50 on Blackberry.

    Many of the (vastly fewer) apps for Blackberry are poor.

    The tablet is far from remarkable, a 7" with 1024x600 and dual core 16gb, easy enough to find that sort of spec cheaper.

    It will be a dead platform in the not too distant future.
  • albionrovers
    albionrovers Posts: 2,028 Forumite
    +1 for the Blackberry. Awesome build quality and HD playback.

    Why do all the detractors say it will be redundant in the near future just because Angry Birds may/may not work? It's a great bit of kit for music and movie storage .....
  • Dreamnine
    Dreamnine Posts: 8,370 Forumite
    There is no reason to buy a Playbook at all when a much better and more modern Android tablet can be had for not much more money.

    The Playbook had a good camera and speakers but nothing else going for it - months would go by without my picking it up whereas I use the Nexus 7 daily.
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  • sillygoose
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    +1 for the Blackberry. Awesome build quality and HD playback.

    Why do all the detractors say it will be redundant in the near future just because Angry Birds may/may not work? It's a great bit of kit for music and movie storage .....

    It is a great bit of kit for music and movie storage :T, but for just that its overpriced. A tablet can be so much more, otherwise those developers would not have bothered creating the 700,000 apps in the Android store.

    By HD playback I presume you mean into a HD TV as the playbook screen is not 'HD' specification at 1024 x 600?

    One of my android tablets that cost half as much and also outputs perfect HD to a TV via its HDMI port the same and also has a higher (1024 x 768) resolution screen than the Blackberry. Can't see how its such good value?
  • Gunstar
    Gunstar Posts: 109 Forumite
    I got this a few weeks ago: carphonewarehouse.com/mobiles/mobile-phones/VERSUS_TOUCHPAD_7

    It was £49 when I picked it up. I only use it as part of my device lab for site/app testing but it's a decent tablet for the price.

    I use an iPad for my day to day tablet needs, can't beat an iPad!
  • Truepat
    Truepat Posts: 3,278 Forumite
    edited 18 March 2013 at 8:06AM
    sillygoose wrote: »
    No its not.

    You'll pay for it in the long run. Take one of the most popular apps, Cut the Rope game. Its free on Android, its £2.00 on Blackberry.

    The big hit Temple run, not available on Blackberry.

    Angry Birds is free on Android, £3.50 on Blackberry.

    Many of the (vastly fewer) apps for Blackberry are poor.

    The tablet is far from remarkable, a 7" with 1024x600 and dual core 16gb, easy enough to find that sort of spec cheaper.

    It will be a dead platform in the not too distant future.
    And that is where you are wrong, unless all you want to do is play some games (an awful waste for a tablet). If silly games is all you want it for then I agree buy a cheap android system.

    I did say 'value for money' in which case you have to compare like-for-like in quality, which means tablets such as the Kindle Fire, Google Nexus 7, Samsung and not the cheap android tablets that really are rubbish (I had a couple before I found the Blackberry including the ployer momo bird from GTR and it is obvious why they were so cheap - good for kids but little else - although full marks to GTR who did their best to help).

    1. You can match the base spec at the price but only by buying a cheap low quality item with a low quality screen (compared to the Blackberry) - and the screen is the most important element.
    2. There is nothing of the quality of a Blackberry that comes with 64Gb for under £130.
    3. The Blackerry OS is much more stable than Android which requires rebooting or shuts itself down every so often. My Ployer regularly hung requiring restarts and even when it worked the PLoyer was for ever loosing the wifi signal (despite trying several software upgrades).
    4. The Blackberry OS offers true multi-tasking. Something that has only recently become available in Android (and iOS?) - and if the stability reports about the Google Nexus are correct then it is causing problems
    5. I also have several iPads which are good, but they do not fit in my suit pocket (the Blackberry does).

    Finally many android apps can be easily loaded onto the Blackberry from a PC. A bit more inconvenient but then you only load an app once (unless you buy one of the many cheap android system that have to be continually reset). It took me less than 5 minutes to download and install Kindle on my Blackberry.
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  • Truepat
    Truepat Posts: 3,278 Forumite
    One other thing, I am not into the silly !!!!!!-comparisons others seem to get into over whose app store is bigger than whose. Yes there may be hundreds of thousands of apps in the Apple and google stores but if you are honest 90% of them (in any app store) are garbage or irrelevant.

    All I am interested in is if I can find the app for my device and I have managed to find everything I need at the Blackberry store (mostly free items but I did spend a couple of quid on a file manager). The exception is the Kindle app and a couple of others that I found at https://www.goodereader.com and have loaded onto my Blackvberry via DDPB
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  • Fifer
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    Truepat wrote: »
    And that is where you are wrong, 3. The Blackerry OS is much more stable than Android which requires rebooting or shuts itself down every so often.

    I've owned and used Android phones for four years and have owned an Asus Transformer since launch more than two years ago (and recently bought a Samsung tablet as a gift for another family member). I can't recall Android rebooting or shutting itself down in four years of daily use.
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  • Truepat
    Truepat Posts: 3,278 Forumite
    edited 18 March 2013 at 10:11AM
    Fifer wrote: »
    I've owned and used Android phones for four years and have owned an Asus Transformer since launch more than two years ago (and recently bought a Samsung tablet as a gift for another family member). I can't recall Android rebooting or shutting itself down in four years of daily use.
    Possibly you are not taxing it then, probably just doing mundane tasks. The tablets are now inherent to how we operate our business and are heavily used. Even Google admits there are issues with its new Jellybean version and accepts that Ice Cream Sandwich also had issues. That is to be expected with an open platform. As far as stability is concerned I would put Blackberry and Apple on a par with android slightly behind - but again that depends on decent hardware.

    I looked at the Asus transformer and Prime range and liked it but the web is littered with stability issues on them and, during the demo I was given for it, it actually crashed and had to be restarted. Similarly my Samsung phone has had to be restarted several times (including this morning). Software? Hardware? who knows?

    My Ployer regularly shut itself down and failed to connect to the internet but that could be hardware related. That is why I bought the Blackberry which has not crashed once in the last 2+ years despite heavy daily use.

    We all have our own experiences and make decisions based on those. I have not ruled Android out, I await my new Google Nexus 10 to arrive (this week) to replace my iPads which the nephews seem to have taken ownership for. However, unless it is as stable as my Blackberry then the Blackberry will remain my device of choice.
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    When you are done moaning remember that there are people who would love to have your standard of living!
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