What the best basic tablet to buy?

dllive

Hi all
Id like to buy Mother a tablet (70+ year old). She currently uses an Android phone, and its painful to see her squinting at her phone, so thought Id treat her to a tablet. She uses Facebook, checks the news, reads recipes. But not much more. I feel like an iPad would be a waste. So whats a good tablet thats cheap? My budget is about £150. Perhaps I should buy a reconditioned tablet?
Thanks

forgotmyname

Struggles to see what sized screen?  Sounds like the bigger the screen the better but £150 maybe on the low
side for a decent screen size whilst having a quality screen.  Both are fairly important to have a decent viewing
experience.

Murmansk

I imagine this would be OK

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Galaxy-Android-Graphite-Version/dp/B09LYWS5XK/ref=sr_1_3?crid=17DLP1XI2I5GK&keywords=samsung+tablet&qid=1652639530&refinements=p_n_feature_two_browse-bin:21837638031&rnid=909023031&s=computers&sprefix=samsung+tablet,aps,86&sr=1-3&th=1

getmore4less

We got an Amazon fire HD 10   they come on sale fairly often

Good screen

The newer one hd plus are better and get in budget.

Can set it up with full playstore.

When looking they were probably the best bang for buck.

They do 8 and 7.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/tag/amazon-tablet

mobileron

Hd 10 great value,good review on Youtube.

Browntoa

My mum's 91

She copes with using an Amazon hd 8 to watch BBC iPlayer etc 

gefnew

Could this be of some use.
HUAWEI MatePad T 10s, 4+64GB, Wi-Fi, Deep Sea Blue Tablet £129.99 With Code @ Huawei - hotukdeals

mgfvvc

My mother's experience with the 7 inch kindle Fire was that the speakers were too quiet.

fenlander_uk

+1 for the Galaxy Tab A8. £157 at Amazon. 

mobileron

theres an app available to increase audio levels,called speaker booster full.

GDB2222

mobileron said:

theres an app available to increase audio levels,called speaker booster full.

Why would Amazon have unnecessarily restricted the volume?