Best all round cheapest tablet

flaneurs_lobster

Just to clear this up: 

Amazon Kindle (various) is an e-book reader. Amazon Fire (various) is an Android tablet. 

Amazon did not help anyone here by overlapping the names of two different hardware devices (in fact they stopped doing this in 2014 but there's still confusion between the two product lines).

Your original post asked about a cheap tablet for browsing and Netflix. Amazon Fire will do this fine. Your last post is asking about a tablet that'll do everything a phone can do. That's harder to recommend. 

What's your budget (I know it's a present but give us a ballpark), that'll help to narrow it down. 

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flaneurs_lobster said:

Just to clear this up: 

Amazon Kindle (various) is an e-book reader. Amazon Fire (various) is an Android tablet. 

Amazon did not help anyone here by overlapping the names of two different hardware devices (in fact they stopped doing this in 2014 but there's still confusion between the two product lines).

Your original post asked about a cheap tablet for browsing and Netflix. Amazon Fire will do this fine. Your last post is asking about a tablet that'll do everything a phone can do. That's harder to recommend. 

What's your budget (I know it's a present but give us a ballpark), that'll help to narrow it down. 

Up to £150.
It's a present. So I don't want to go high spec.
If I was paying it'd be more. 

Undervalued

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Thank you Undervalued for this information.
I think I'll stick with Android.
Is Lenovo a good make?

A Fire tablet runs "Fire OS" which is a highly customised version of Android. Other manufacturers also use customised versions of Android but perhaps not to this degree.

Lenovo - no experience, sorry.

 

flaneurs_lobster

Amazon Fire HD 10. With caveats.

Have a look at the Amazon app store, far fewer apps are available than the full Google Play Store albeit most of the popular ones are there. 

It will play ads on the save screen unless you pay a one-off fee to remove them (£20??).

Not aware of any other tablet that comes close to it's spec for the price (unless you start looking at refurbished Galaxy Tabs or iPads). 

Anyone have other suggestions?

EDIT: Sorry @Undervalued, we are cross-posting with each other, don't think we contradict.

400ixl

Lenovo are fine, you tend to get 1 major update with them.

Kindle is Android, just the open source variant with a different skin and app store. It is easy to add Google Play store and it apps. No need to change the launcher and most of the Amazon apps can be hidden out of the way so you don't even notice they are there. SD slot issues are very rare as well. I wouldn't discount one if price is a key factor.

Microsoft is bringing the Amazon App Store to Windows 10/11 so you will see more apps become available directly in their store without the ned for Google as that becomes more popular.

Lenovo is a good middle ground though between the Kindle and the Samsung range. They do have the Play Store on them by default usually.

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Thanks for the information 400ixl 

flaneurs_lobster

400ixl said:

Kindle is Android

Kindle is an e-book reader (runs Linux kernels), Fire is the sort-of Android tablet.

GDB2222

Right at the moment, the new version of the fire HD is £200, but there is a refurbished one for £105. Both of them have 64 GB of memory.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Staging-Product-Not-Retail-Sale/dp/B07P6SVPMC

mobileron

[Deleted User] said:

Thank you Undervalued for this information.
I think I'll stick with Android.
Is Lenovo a good make?

Kindle is Android but without playstore,which u can add, most things are available i watch movies,bank,home thermostat,ip camera,there are thousands of apps available.

eamon

I have a Lenovo tablet. Had it over 12 months. Works fine, boots up reasonably quick. Got it from Argos. £149 sounds familiar.

Please don't view me as being an insensitive jerk, but now that Samsumg have pulled their products from Russia there may be some apparent good deals in the future.