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Plastic Tablet Not Glass
Rich_L
12-12-2013
Hi,

For reasons I dont really want to go into, are there any tablets that are plastic screens and not glass?

One that wouldnt shatter into a thousand pieces if it were dropped?

Recomendations please? Thank you.
alan1302
12-12-2013
Originally Posted by Rich_L:
“For reasons I dont really want to go into, are there any tablets that are plastic screens and not glass?”

Ok

Most cheap tablets will have plastic screens to keep their costs down.
Rich_L
12-12-2013
Any good recommendaions?
ssr
12-12-2013
Just search for tablets with Gorilla Glass and you will have no problems

Tablets with Gorilla Glass

Acer Iconia Tab range
Amazon Kindle Fire
BlackBerry PlayBook
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer range
ASUS VivoTab range
AURASLATE LifePad 726 & 1026
Cube U20GT
Dell Streak 7
JXD Venus S908
Karbon A1+
GoClever Tab A93.2
Google Nexus 10
Lenovo Thinkpad
Microsoft Surface
Motion Computing F5v, C5v, J3500 and CL900
Motorola Xoom range
Samsung Duos
Samsung Galaxy Tab range
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1
Supot 7
Toshiba Excite 10 Series
VAX Sx6150
Rich_L
12-12-2013
Appreciate that and thanks I just wondered if one or more stood out from that crowd.
alan1302
12-12-2013
Originally Posted by Rich_L:
“Any good recommendaions?”

Depends what you want it for and what you are doing with it. Tablets vary in price and performance too much to recommend one without knowing at least basic usage details.

If you want a particulars OS? Particular apss? Etc, etc, etc
Rich_L
12-12-2013
No not really. It's for my sister she has brain damage from a car accident and has 24/7 care but can't use her laptop very well in bed so I thought she could have a tablet.

Her room and her bed are not like plush carpeted homes, think hospital ward and if she were to drop it out of bed onto concrete, well, that would be the end of most of them, even gorilla glass I suspect.
alan1302
12-12-2013
Originally Posted by Rich_L:
“No not really. It's for my sister she has brain damage from a car accident and has 24/7 care but can't use her laptop very well in bed so I thought she could have a tablet.

Her room and her bed are not like plush carpeted homes, think hospital ward and if she were to drop it out of bed onto concrete, well, that would be the end of most of them, even gorilla glass I suspect.”

Is it worth looking for a touchscreen laptop rather than a tablet maybe?

For the tablet it would maybe worth looking for one with a resistive rather than capacitive type screen. Also any resistive screen would be plastic. Although they are getting harder to get now - might be worth just getting a tablet with a glass screen and then sticking it in a decent case.
GetFrodo
12-12-2013
Why don't you consider a normal tablet with a protective case for kids - our friends' iPad can be happily thrown across the room...nice to hold, too.
clonmult
12-12-2013
Originally Posted by Rich_L:
“No not really. It's for my sister she has brain damage from a car accident and has 24/7 care but can't use her laptop very well in bed so I thought she could have a tablet.

Her room and her bed are not like plush carpeted homes, think hospital ward and if she were to drop it out of bed onto concrete, well, that would be the end of most of them, even gorilla glass I suspect.”

Gorilla glass will still crack when dropped if it hits at the "wrong" angle (judging by my Nokia 808). I also dropped my old Advent Vega and smashed the plastic screen; it was only held together by the screen protector (this is important).

I'd suggest going for a tablet based on spec and how it feels for you (and her). Regardless of what screen type you get, if droppage is a consideration, buy a screen protector - it'll give an element of protection, and if it is dropped and the screen cracks, the stick protector will stop bits from flying all over the place.

There are plenty of rubberised cases available for tablets that'll give extra protection (got a fantastic one for my young sons Hudl).
flagpole
13-12-2013
i agree gorilla glass will still break. but so will the tablet itself

you can get some pretty tough cases like this one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/i-Blason-Gen...blason+nexus+7
alanwarwic
13-12-2013
Methinks that Archos Cobalt 8 tablet was plastic.

Maybe Tesco have arranged something new for a boxing day '£50 tablet' sale. In many ways the Cobalt was Tescos very first own brand tablet.
alan1302
13-12-2013
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“In many ways the Cobalt was Tescos very first own brand tablet.”

I can't see your logic on that at all - it was just a cheap tablet that Tesco wanted to flog to get customers in
Rich_L
13-12-2013
Thanks for your help people.
alanwarwic
13-12-2013
Originally Posted by alan1302:
“I can't see your logic on that at all...”

Well look up the facts, and those of the Hudl too.

The Hudl is certainly the Tesco Archos relationship experiment continuing. Archos would have got near zero headlines if it called the tablet 'The Archos Hudl'.

Both were made for Tesco by Archos.
Boxing day is unlikely to be a cheap tablet. With Archos selling phones too, Tesco could really surprise us and launch the Hudl Phone.
alan1302
13-12-2013
Originally Posted by alanwarwic:
“Well look up the facts, and those of the Hudl too.

The Hudl is certainly the Tesco Archos relationship experiment continuing. Archos would have got near zero headlines if it called the tablet 'The Archos Hudl'.

Both were made for Tesco by Archos.
Boxing day is unlikely to be a cheap tablet. With Archos selling phones too, Tesco could really surprise us and launch the Hudl Phone.”

The Archos Cobalt was not made for Tesco as other places sold it as well.

More likely Tesco needed someone to manufacture a tablet for them and Archos were willing to do it cheaper than one of the major companies.
alanwarwic
13-12-2013
Originally Posted by alan1302:
“The Archos Cobalt was not made for Tesco as other places sold it as well....”

Well it(the 80) never really got released in the UK until Boxing day, and hardly sold anywhere else afterwards.
Tesco have long looked like Archos's biggest UK reseller.

It certainly looks to be the precursor. Branded as Tesco rather than Archos it likely sells better.
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