Budget £270 - iPad or Kindle Fire HDX?

Legacy_user

Can go to £300.

Ideally need to buy through Amazon as got £50 credit from buying Aviva car insurance. Can buy elsewhere but my budget will be £250 tops.

Never used a tablet before but I own an iPhone 5.

Don't want it to connect to its own internet but want to use wifi at home, hotels and use my mobile data from iPhone.

I will be wanting to watch TV on demand, read books like a kindle, etc.

I have a laptop which I will still keep as it's easier for things like composing letters and emails and playing certain games.

I was originally planning to spend any CPP gains on a holiday. As Mum broke her hip and cannot relax and feel guilty.

JJ_Egan

Ipad as you are already on the Apple bandwagon .

Swerved

If you have bought lots of apps and like the interface on your iphone and would like to use them on your tablet get an Ipad, but otherwise I would get the Kindle HDX or a Nexus tablet. You will get more for your money in terms of spec by going with something other than the Ipad, but it boils down to how much you like IOS on apple products.

want_to_save

oooh can i thro a new one in the mix neither ASUS T100 from tesco direct windows 8.1 tablet with keyboard that can be un attached and its £299 at the moment (can u guess what i just bought lol)

TheSaint_2

You could ditch the laptop if you bought a windows tablet as it would run all your pc applications too.


Asus do a good windows 8.1 pro tablet for about £300


If you have a Costco card they have an offer on a Lenovo tablet with detachable keyboard for about 200

PenguinJim

For reading books, you'll need a high-resolution screen - look for 250PPI (pixels per inch) as a minimum, as it will help ebook text to be clear and easy to read.

When the original Kindle Fire HD launched, it was slightly superior to its competitor, the Nook HD+. Both were ~9" high-res tablets, and both were quite limited in what you could do with them, as neither had access to the Google Play (Android) store. Since then, the Kindle HD has been replaced with the even-higher-resolution HDX. Meanwhile, the Nook HD+ has had Google Play added (freedom!), and its price has dropped to a remarkable ~£110. Nothing else has been able to touch it for value in the last 12 months, which is crazy! They're a little more expensive at Amazon at the moment, so you might want to save that £50 coupon for another time. Make sure you're looking at the 9" Nook HD+ and not the 7" Nook HD.

For more information on what you can and can't do with the Kindle Fire HDX, check this out. Slightly limited, and not a "bargain", but not a bad tablet by any means.

JasX

Have you had a look at the google 'nexus' tablets?

I've been a big fan of them as Google seem to have a grand plan they'll make their money off you via their equivalent of the apple itunes/app store (Google play) rather than from selling you hardware so have been doing top spec tablets for near cost price (unlike Samsung and others who's only profit margin is the markup when they actually sell you the device, and Apple which has always just liked to be unreasonably expensive on the hardware side for no specific reason).

Currently I work the opposite way round you do with an old ipad2 and nexus4 android phone. Most of the top rated free apps are available for both so syncing between them on cloud services is dead easy too (eg Evernote(notes), Dropbox(file storage), wunderlist(to do list software), )

Treated my dad to a nexus 7 tablet (same size as the ipad mini) last Father's Day and it's performed very well over the last year.

I'd definitely recommend having a look, you can get the amazon kindle app on android too.

The ipad mini sized ones are both comfortably inside your budget, the 10" full ipad sized one is a little over (I'd recommend stretching to 32gb)

standinman2009

Ipad all the way !

hop3y

Go for an Android tablet, since KitKat launched, it's so much better than iOS and that's from an Apple Fanboy!

Try the Nexus 10