Any suggestions for tablet?

TomsMom

My Tesco Hudl 2 appears to have died. It's been a bit iffy of late, sometimes recharging, sometimes not, and today when I switched it on (just over half battery when switched off last night), it came on but didn't boot up, then I couldn't switch it off and now it's just dead. I'm that pee'd off with it I'm thinking about taking a hammer to it

So I'm thinking about getting a new one. I don't do anything clever with it, basically surf the net, take part in forums, research anything I want to buy. I have a main PC in a room not warm enough to sit in at night, which I use for banking, shopping, etc., (I don't use the tablet for that). Nor do I watch films on it or do gaming. So I don't need anything very sophisticated, just something that will allow me to sit in my living room and use the internet when there's nothing much on TV.

I don't really want to pay IPad prices, thinking more along the lines of up to about £200.

Any thoughts or recommendations for a tablet suitable for a technumpty?

[Deleted User]

You can get an iPad mini for around £200. I wold suggest you do your online banking on a tablet or phone rather than a pc which is not very secure.

JJ_Egan

Give your Hudl to someone that can have a play with it and maybe rescue it .

TomsMom

Deleted_User wrote: »

You can get an iPad mini for around £200. I wold suggest you do your online banking on a tablet or phone rather than a pc which is not very secure.

My Hudl didn't have any security so I wouldn't do banking or shopping on that. My PC has internet security. I don't have a clever phone (don't really want one), my phone makes calls and texts and that's all I need.

I'll look at the IPad mini, thanks.

TomsMom

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Give your Hudl to someone that can have a play with it and maybe rescue it .

The person who looks after my PC for me doesn't do tablets, just PCs and laptops. I don't know anyone else.

dcouponzzzz

Doesn't a Kindle Fire fulfill you're reqs? I'm not sure but worth checking as it's cheap as chips.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fire-Display-Wi-Fi-GB-Black/dp/B00Y3TM6CO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461853292&sr=8-1&keywords=kindle+fire

Scroll down that page to see the 5 or so different devices.

TomsMom

dcouponzzzz wrote: »

Doesn't a Kindle Fire fulfill you're reqs? I'm not sure but worth checking as it's cheap as chips.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fire-Display-Wi-Fi-GB-Black/dp/B00Y3TM6CO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1461853292&sr=8-1&keywords=kindle+fire

Scroll down that page to see the 5 or so different devices.

Thank you, I'll have a read through .

Anne_Marie_2

Deleted_User wrote: »

I wold suggest you do your online banking on a tablet or phone rather than a pc which is not very secure.

:question: Based on what premise?

[Deleted User]

I've got one of those £50 Kindle Fires, although I managed to get it for £30 (and even then I got a £12 refund due to a faulty plug.. so it cost £18).

I wouldn't have it for my main tablet. I only have it for media. Web-browsing is a slow and painful, with the inability to install Chrome (without a lot of tweaking).

TomsMom

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I've got one of those £50 Kindle Fires, although I managed to get it for £30 (and even then I got a £12 refund due to a faulty plug.. so it cost £18).

I wouldn't have it for my main tablet. I only have it for media. Web-browsing is a slow and painful, with the inability to install Chrome (without a lot of tweaking).

OK, thanks. That's useful to know. Slow web browsing would probably get up my nose a bit (trying to be polite ).

flashg67

Have a look at Samsung Tab E - £159 with occasional cheaper refurb deals on the Argos ebay page - bigger screen, reasonable spec - I have one and it does the job fine for occasional browsing, Netflix, games etc, even though not top spec by todays standards