A Good tablet for magazines (on budget)

Manbatius · 31 Oct 2012 at 09:38

Hi all,

I am being pressured into choosing a tablet (as a present)
I am limited to around £200.

The tablet will be used primarily for magazine reading.
Light internet browsing via firfox so i can get to my bookmarks.

How is browsing a magazine on a 7 inch tablet? on my laptop it trys to display two pages on the one screen and its faffy consequently. Would a tablet in portrait mode just one page?

I am going to look at 32gb Nexus 7 and Motorola xoom 2 media edition (8.2 inch) today.

Kindle fire I had considered but i prefer updates tinkering and firefox!

Any thoughts would be helpful!

Thanks,

Davey

m4rk84 · 31 Oct 2012 at 09:39

Nexus 7. Job done.

Manbatius · 31 Oct 2012 at 12:23

m4rk84 said:
Nexus 7. Job done.

Would the extra 1.2 inch of the xoom 2 not be more beneficial?
Or is this countered by the Nexus 7 having a better panel for viewing angles with LED-backlit IPS?

kona786 · 31 Oct 2012 at 12:29

Nexus 7 is without peers at this pricepoint. Though if you can muster £319, the N10's screen will be GODLY.

Manbatius · 31 Oct 2012 at 12:39

kona786 said:
Nexus 7 is without peers at this pricepoint. Though if you can muster £319, the N10's screen will be GODLY.

I know it looks awesome I was hanging on to see the ipad mini price (crazy) and the nexus 10 price.
However the ten is out of limit sadly!

I had a looked at a 7 initially but read you could not rotate it (i think ti was the 7) but an update has fixed that. I was then put off as no hdmi and low storage.

However now the 32gb is out (win) and as long as my new phone has hdmi out its all good!

Looking like the 7 is winning!

Sash · 31 Oct 2012 at 16:11

I got the Nexus 7 8GB, more than adequate