Huawei Tablets

50Twuncle

Are HUAWEI tablets any good ?
My wifes 5 year old Samsung Galaxy 2 is giving up the ghost and needs a replacement
She just plays games and emails on it !

Currys claim that the Mediapad T5 has a 2.36 Mhz 8 core processor - but only 16Gb storage - which should fit the bill perfectly - running Android 8

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/s_action/compare/10185966-10174203.html
Don't worry - won't buy from Currys though...

JJ_Egan

Buy one and you will be posting about chinese spys .

50Twuncle

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Buy one and you will be posting about chinese spys .

That did cross my mind !!

Inner_Zone

50Twuncle wrote: »

That did cross my mind !!

Are you sure, not just because you were reminded?

50Twuncle

Inner_Zone wrote: »

Are you sure, not just because you were reminded?

No - I am aware that HUAWEI have been accused of spying but don't believe that my wife has any state secrets that matter

50Twuncle

These tablets come with a non-updatable version of Android 8 called EMUI 5.1 which is their own spying software !

steviebabes

If its only used for games and email an Amazon Fire HD 10 would per fine. Better battery life and can be found much cheaper. No google play store as not pure Android but this can be installed quite simply if required. Lots of free games in the Amazon store.

50Twuncle

steviebabes wrote: »

If its only used for games and email an Amazon Fire HD 10 would per fine. Better battery life and can be found much cheaper. No google play store as not pure Android but this can be installed quite simply if required. Lots of free games in the Amazon store.

Not MUCH cheaper - similar price around £149

unforeseen

50Twuncle wrote: »

These tablets come with a non-updatable version of Android 8 called EMUI 5.1 which is their own spying software !

A lot of tablets are not updateable, or can only be updated by one version number of Android. Very few of the mainstream ones have vanilla Android, it tends to be modified by the manufacturer to meet their ends.

Whose to say that Samsung, Asus or Lenovo don't have spying software in them?

The only reason that Huawei is in the headlines is because they are Chinese AND a very large part of their manufacturing is geared around providing core equipment for major telecoms systems throughout the world.

This is more the fact that they are Chinese. 10 years ago MOD were looking for A0 plotters. They would be connected to classified systems. They never actually got them in the end because the chip manufacturers for this type of plotter were based in China or Taiwan and they were worried that they would contain back door code. Paranoia has a long memory

50Twuncle

unforeseen wrote: »

A lot of tablets are not updateable, or can only be updated by one version number of Android. Very few of the mainstream ones have vanilla Android, it tends to be modified by the manufacturer to meet their ends.

Whose to say that Samsung, Asus or Lenovo don't have spying software in them?

The only reason that Huawei is in the headlines is because they are Chinese AND a very large part of their manufacturing is geared around providing core equipment for major telecoms systems throughout the world.

This is more the fact that they are Chinese. 10 years ago MOD were looking for A0 plotters. They would be connected to classified systems. They never actually got them in the end because the chip manufacturers for this type of plotter were based in China or Taiwan and they were worried that they would contain back door code. Paranoia has a long memory

Thanks - ordered one from John Lewis (for extra warranty)

unforeseen

I have a Huawei M3 Lite 8". Bought last March. Have had no problems with it. Came with Android 6 and upgraded to 7. Never had a problem with it.