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victor mel
17-12-2013
Cheep as chips?

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25402621
ssr
17-12-2013
Or you could throw your money down the drain!!
Sniffle774
17-12-2013
You get what you pay for on this occasion I would say.
JasonWatkins
17-12-2013
i can never quite understand people's reaction to a tablet like this. it's very clearly aimed at a specific corner of the market that only wants a basic video player and web surfing device but i've read a lot of posts on forums whining about it being "old tech", how poor the spec is and how you should "spend X amount more and get a decent tablet".

Believe it or not, there are people out there who don't want 76 cores and 89gb of ram and who just want a basic tablet to do simple, basic things.

(exaggeration - obviously).

There's certainly a market for this tablet and I expect it'll sell by the bucketload.
jsmith99
17-12-2013
I look on it the same way I look at cheap cameras - the gap between no camera and a cheap one is vastly wider than the gap between a cheap camera and an ultra-expensive one.
grassmarket
17-12-2013
The only serious drawback I can see is that it is 800x600, so any web browsing would be just about unworkable.
1Mickey
17-12-2013
The battery life(which is normally exaggerated) and just 512 ram would put me off. I spent £80 on a tablet similar to that about a year ago and its really slow and freezes a lot so I never use it. It may be alright for someone with a lot of patience who only wants to use it for the odd bit of leisurely browsing but you couldn't use it for work or Uni like the better tablets and ipads. Most people have better browsing capability on their phones these days.
TelevisionUser
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by grassmarket:
“The only serious drawback I can see is that it is 800x600, so any web browsing would be just about unworkable.”

It has relatively mediocre to poor specifications (see http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/386035/d...ives-in-the-uk) and so it might be a risk getting it without trying it first. Something like a Tesco Hudl or Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" would probable be much better value for money overall as well as being more capable and up to date tablets.
Bunions
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by JasonWatkins:
“i can never quite understand people's reaction to a tablet like this. it's very clearly aimed at a specific corner of the market that only wants a basic video player and web surfing device but i've read a lot of posts on forums whining about it being "old tech", how poor the spec is and how you should "spend X amount more and get a decent tablet".

Believe it or not, there are people out there who don't want 76 cores and 89gb of ram and who just want a basic tablet to do simple, basic things.

(exaggeration - obviously).

There's certainly a market for this tablet and I expect it'll sell by the bucketload.”

I fear you know little about tablets as it's things like watching videos that a cheap tablet with low specs will struggle with the most.
JasonWatkins
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by TelevisionUser:
“It has relatively mediocre to poor specifications (see http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/386035/d...ives-in-the-uk) and so it might be a risk getting it without trying it first. Something like a Tesco Hudl or Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" would probable be much better value for money overall as well as being more capable and up to date tablets.”

See this is another attitude I can never understand. If a person is looking for a cheap tablet to do the odd bit of surfing or bit of reading or even play the odd video, why on earth would they want to spend £120 quid on something when they could get something for £30 that would probably do exactly what they wanted ?

Why would someone on a budget get something that's four times more expensive ?

Originally Posted by Bunions:
“I fear you know little about tablets as it's things like watching videos that a cheap tablet with low specs will struggle with the most.”

I know plenty thanks. I just understand the notion behind the need for a budget tablet and the sort of person who would buy one. Not everyone is made of money.
TelevisionUser
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by JasonWatkins:
“See this is another attitude I can never understand. If a person is looking for a cheap tablet to do the odd bit of surfing or bit of reading or even play the odd video, why on earth would they want to spend £120 quid on something when they could get something for £30 that would probably do exactly what they wanted ?

Why would someone on a budget get something that's four times more expensive ?

I know plenty thanks. I just understand the notion behind the need for a budget tablet and the sort of person who would buy one. Not everyone is made of money.”

The problem with a lot of the very cheap tablets is that they are slow, poor quality and unreliable and have to be returned/binned. They do not make for a good user experience and, if someone has the money, they are really best avoided.

I've seen the Ideal World shopping channel knowingly selling cheapo trash tablets with very poor user reviews online and then a few days later their own website gets bunged up with the comments of very upset customers. That's why very cheap tablets are, overall, best avoided.
alan1302
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by JasonWatkins:
“I know plenty thanks. I just understand the notion behind the need for a budget tablet and the sort of person who would buy one. Not everyone is made of money.”

Sometimes it is better to have nothing rather than something that is very poor.
BMR
17-12-2013
Low spec is one thing, poor build quality is quite another. A 1ghz chip is plenty for my needs, but I suspect the screen would be totally unresponsive, and the thing would fall apart after a few months if that.

Sometimes you can go too cheap......
Lysandar
17-12-2013
It's simply for poor people.
Like Lidl or Poundshop.
Or tattoos
scruffpot
17-12-2013
dx.com has cheaper tablets if you really want one.. there's a dual core for £37
I tried using a tablet for a while can't stand them, i can only cope with a touch screen phone..I like buttons.
JasonWatkins
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by scruffpot:
“dx.com has cheaper tablets if you really want one.. there's a dual core for £37
I tried using a tablet for a while can't stand them, i can only cope with a touch screen phone..I like buttons.”

how is £37 cheaper than £30 ?
CravenHaven
17-12-2013
I think its grrreat. It's the ideal gift to give your favourite untouchable who drinks brown water, lives in a cardboard condo and travels on top of the train.
Seriously, it's not really meant for this country. You don't really want it.
scruffpot
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by JasonWatkins:
“how is £37 cheaper than £30 ?”

I did not say that one was cheaper. There are cheaper ones then £30... (fullstops). there is a dual core for £37 (better spec[ish]) for £7 more. etc
scruffpot
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by Lysandar:
“It's simply for poor people.
Like Lidl or Poundshop.
Or tattoos”

hahaha that made me laugh I wish DS had a smug icon.. that would be ace.
BMR
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by Lysandar:
“It's simply for poor people.
Like Lidl or Poundshop.
Or tattoos”

Tattoos can be quite expensive!!
Bunions
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by JasonWatkins:
“I know plenty thanks.”

You do?

Oh well that wasn't apparent from your comment about someone spending £30 on a tablet to watch videos and go online on.

I noted you revised that to reading eBooks which would be about the only thing that bit of tat could cope with adequately and it's anyone's guess whether or not you could download any decent ereader apps on it.

Quote:
“I just understand the notion behind the need for a budget tablet and the sort of person who would buy one.”

What 'sort of person?'

The sort of person who knows shit-all about tablets?

Quote:
“ Not everyone is made of money.”

I'm reminded of that saying that 'the fool and his money are soon parted'

If some parent out there who is short of a few bob were to buy one of those for their kid for Christmas, I guarantee it would bring more grief than if the kid had no tablet at all.
akki007
17-12-2013
Originally Posted by Bunions:
“I fear you know little about tablets as it's things like watching videos that a cheap tablet with low specs will struggle with the most.”

That's utter and absolute nonsense. I was watching videos on old school DAPs about 9 years ago! Of course this thing can play a video!!!
JasonWatkins
18-12-2013
Originally Posted by Bunions:
“You do?

Oh well that wasn't apparent from your comment about someone spending £30 on a tablet to watch videos and go online on”

Well maybe if you'd taken a moment to climb down from your high horse then it might have helped.

Many years ago, the first tablet I ever bought when I actually didn't know a lot about them was a piece of sh*t resistive apad from ebay. Cost me £40 quid and I was over the moon because I thought i'd got a bargain.

On the day it was delivered, after a rather painful hour of playing with it, it was immediately back on eBay because I quickly realised that it was a piece of crap that wouldn't come close to doing what i wanted it to do.

But you know what it did do perfectly well ?. Go on .. I bet you can't guess ..

Originally Posted by Bunions:
“I noted you revised that to reading eBooks”

revised .. added to ..

Originally Posted by Bunions:
“What 'sort of person?'

The sort of person who knows shit-all about tablets?”

Or the sort of person who, as i've said twice already, just wants a basic machine to do basic things and doesn't want to pay four times more than what they might actually be willing to pay.

Originally Posted by Bunions:
“If some parent out there who is short of a few bob were to buy one of those for their kid for Christmas, I guarantee it would bring more grief than if the kid had no tablet at all.”

I personally wouldn't recommend this tablet to a parent looking to get one for their child.
JasonWatkins
18-12-2013
Originally Posted by JasonWatkins:
“I personally wouldn't recommend this tablet to a parent looking to get one for their child.”

Although after watching some video reviews of the machine, i'd probably be willing to "revise" that to a degree as it appears to handle some games fairly well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBfYpYfwFYA
Philip Wales
18-12-2013
The trouble is with these cheap tablets is that people buy them, get all upset when it won't do what they want it to do, IMHO people will do more than they think with a tablet after actually getting it. They then form a negative opinion on the use of tablets, and go around saying that they've tried a tablet and felt it didn't offer the experience they were after.

The gadget show did a tablet review the other day and Alex Polosi (sp) downgraded the Kindle Fire as it didn't have as many apps as the Nexus. I think that was unfair as anyone who knows about tablets, will know that the Kindle has it's own store and Google play store can be side loaded. If they don't know, they probably aren't going to miss the Play store anyway.
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