Kindle Fire or Hudl?

danielag

Hi, I was after some advice please. My daughter wants a tablet for christmas, an Ipad is too expensive. Which would be better I've been looking at kindle fire & the new tesco Hudl any ideas?
Thanks

rheme

I had a Kindle Fire bought as a pressie at Christmas and am really impressed with it. Never thought I would give up the feel of actual books but it is great.

Very good on the internet too.

danielag

Thank you, she loves to read, and enjoys games etc

Nilrem

If you can wait a little I think Amazon are thought to be getting ready to announce a new kindle Fire model soon (the current one is a year+ old and showing it's age a bit).

At the moment from what I understand the Google Nexus (new one, not the one with the Nvidia tegra chip*) as sold by Google themselves is pretty much the best cheapish one on the market due to specification and standard Android version (the OS is a vanilla version of Google's OS, whilst the Kindle Fire uses a modified version without some features), and a very high res screen for it's size (it's higher res per inch than the much "vaunted" Ipad).

The Hudl seems to be getting a bit of a mixed reception, it's main selling point seems to be it's cheap, getting on very cheap if you use vouchers, but it's not massively fast and misses out on things like expandable storage (the Nexus for example has a micro SD slot so you can easily, and cheaply add storage, whilst the Kindle Fire is linked to the Amazon cloud when you have a wifi conenction so can easily/directly pull media down from it).

The Kindle Fire (although I'd go for the HD), has the advantage of being tied into the Amazon eco system, thus any music and books you buy from amazon are available on it straight away, and you can easily use it with Amazon's VOD service.


*Carphone Warehouse have the old one for £130 and the new one for £199 (same price as Google for the new one).

Daz2009

Nilrem wrote: »

If you can wait a little I think Amazon are thought to be getting ready to announce a new kindle Fire model soon (the current one is a year+ old and showing it's age a bit).

At the moment from what I understand the Google Nexus (new one, not the one with the Nvidia tegra chip*) as sold by Google themselves is pretty much the best cheapish one on the market due to specification and standard Android version (the OS is a vanilla version of Google's OS, whilst the Kindle Fire uses a modified version without some features), and a very high res screen for it's size (it's higher res per inch than the much "vaunted" Ipad).

The Hudl seems to be getting a bit of a mixed reception, it's main selling point seems to be it's cheap, getting on very cheap if you use vouchers, but it's not massively fast and misses out on things like expandable storage (the Nexus for example has a micro SD slot so you can easily, and cheaply add storage, whilst the Kindle Fire is linked to the Amazon cloud when you have a wifi conenction so can easily/directly pull media down from it).

The Kindle Fire (although I'd go for the HD), has the advantage of being tied into the Amazon eco system, thus any music and books you buy from amazon are available on it straight away, and you can easily use it with Amazon's VOD service.


*Carphone Warehouse have the old one for £130 and the new one for £199 (same price as Google for the new one).

You're giving the wrong advice here mate.
The Hudl DOES have an sd card slot while the Nexus does NOT !

also there have yet to be any proper in depth reviews of the Hudl and from the early reviews I've read so far it stands up to the competition pretty well

I wouldn't say being tied to Amazon was a plus either

danielag

I'll take a look at the Nexus 7, thanks so much for your reply

natnhay

You could check out the reviews on Tesco direct for the Hudl.

sillygoose

Daz2009 wrote: »

You're giving the wrong advice here mate.
The Hudl DOES have an sd card slot while the Nexus does NOT !

also there have yet to be any proper in depth reviews of the Hudl and from the early reviews I've read so far it stands up to the competition pretty well

I wouldn't say being tied to Amazon was a plus either

Exactly! and with 1.5GHZ quad core not many things are going to be that much quicker anywhere near this price range.

I would say the Hudl will do anything the Kindle does but with more flexibility as its less tied in (well apart from the Tesco shopping apps but you could disable all those)

penelopedee_2

Hudl does the kindle app - if you collect Tesco vouchers and do the boost thing to pay for it, then it probably works out similar to buying a cheapo tablet. At least if its Tesco you have somewhere solid to send it back to if it goes wrong.

My boys both broke the charger bits on their tablets, screens etc were fine. They knew I couldn't afford Ipads and as long as they could get internet and carry the device about they weren't really bothered.

neilwoods

Had a look at the hudl today, was only in demo mode, but was nice and quick, screen looked good. Build quality was not great, felt flimsy.

but for the prize and specs, be very hard pushed to find anything better at that price (from uk retailer at least)

danielag

The Kindle Fire HD 7" is on offer at £119 at Tesco direct too, so they would both be the same price, I'm useless with anything technical