Budget Tablet - Nexus 7 Still worth it?

Geffen · 5 Apr 2016 at 18:17

My son Hudl has just died and looking for a budget tablet replacement, want to spend around £100 mark. Currently thinking about the Nexus 7 but worried it now 3 years old has anyone got any other recommendations?

Disco_P · 5 Apr 2016 at 20:50

I am using mine to write this. Still super fast and on Android 6 getting the monthly security updates too.

I haven't looked at getting a replacement and don't plan to for a while

Stovepipes · 5 Apr 2016 at 22:05

I suppose if you can find one cheap enough it's worth it although for around £100 quid it wouldn't be my first choice.

Geffen · 6 Apr 2016 at 06:45

Stovepipes said:
I suppose if you can find one cheap enough it's worth it although for around £100 quid it wouldn't be my first choice.

What would be your first choice?

cheesyboy · 6 Apr 2016 at 07:02

Just bought a nexus 7 on the mm here. It's a long way better than the hudl 1 we also have. It was £100 at argos, when I last checked.

Lacks a sd card slot and hdmi out, which hudl has, if those are important to you

koooowweeee · 6 Apr 2016 at 07:43

Stovepipes said:
I suppose if you can find one cheap enough it's worth it although for around £100 quid it wouldn't be my first choice.

Geffen said:
What would be your first choice?

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What a pointless post......

If you can stretch your budget a bit you could get a Nexus 9. I got my son one for Christmas and they are great tablets

Columbo · 6 Apr 2016 at 08:55

Yes, bought my daughter one last week from a high street retailers Ebay store refurbished for £79.99 and its bloody superb for the cash.

Can't see anything better for the money.

Sanchez · 6 Apr 2016 at 12:17

We recently got my daughter a Kindle Fire tablet. It's great for the money I think. Does all the stuff that she needs. Can't really argue for £50. They do a 'Kids' version for £99 which they'll replace for free within the first 2 years if it's broken by your kids.

div0 · 6 Apr 2016 at 12:53

You can pick up the 8" Lenovo Yoga 2 for £99.

I bought the 10" version a fair while back and IMO it is night and day better than the Nexus 7. Personally I'd be looking and seeing if I could find any deals on the newer Yoga 3's, but that's just because I rate the one I've already got.

I liked the Nexus 7 in it's day, but no way I'd go back now.

silvagti · 6 Apr 2016 at 19:56

I have one of the original 2012 Nexus 7" tablets and I'm finding it so slow that it's pretty much unusable since I updated it to Lollipop. Like the OP I'd quite like to buy a cheapish tablet to replace it. Personally I find the 7" form factor is a bit small and so close to the size of my phone that it doesn't seem worthwhile anymore so personally I'd suggest something in the 8-10" range for a tablet these days.

I did consider the Nexus 9 but at £250 it's around £100 more than I really wanted to spend on a tablet. Lenovo Yoga looks good but the res seems quite low for a 10" tablet at 720p.

Anything else worth considering?

robnut · 6 Apr 2016 at 21:18

Recently bought a zen pad s z580c to replace my gen 1 nexus 7 and very happy.

Columbo · 6 Apr 2016 at 21:38

div0 said:
You can pick up the 8" Lenovo Yoga 2 for £99.

I bought the 10" version a fair while back and IMO it is night and day better than the Nexus 7. Personally I'd be looking and seeing if I could find any deals on the newer Yoga 3's, but that's just because I rate the one I've already got.

I liked the Nexus 7 in it's day, but no way I'd go back now.

The 2013 Nexus 7 is virtually the same spec as the Lenovo, is running Marshmallow perfectly and has received security patches every month this year, there is nothing wrong with the Lenovo but specced and priced the same I'd take a Google device all day long.

Hades · 6 Apr 2016 at 22:07

I'm still using mine and very happy with it.

Stovepipes · 6 Apr 2016 at 22:33

Geffen said:
What would be your first choice?

I'm not a Nexus fan due to the lack of memory expansion & I was looking around and can't find any great deals on at the moment, there were quite a few before Christmas though. Anyway I'd have recommended a Hudl 2, just got my mother's barely used one but they're no longer available

If you don't have to have Android there were quite a few Windows tablets for around that price point, I almost bought a Lenovo Miix last December at £100.

I'm also wondering about the cheap chinese tablets, the phones are highly recommended but have the tablets caught up yet?

malachi · 6 Apr 2016 at 23:09

Still use my Nexus 7 2013 till this day. Nothing has come to beating it in the 7 inch market. All other tablets are too big, no support or cheap Chinese tablets with stuck on Android 4.4.

div0 · 11 Apr 2016 at 08:17

Columbo said:
The 2013 Nexus 7 is virtually the same spec as the Lenovo, is running Marshmallow perfectly and has received security patches every month this year, there is nothing wrong with the Lenovo but specced and priced the same I'd take a Google device all day long.

Yeah I would have had an older version to be fair and hadn't looked to see the spec for any newer versions. I'd still recommend the Yoga to anyone, but if the 2013 Nexus 7 is comparable in spec, then I guess it can't be a bad option either.

Does the 2013 Nexus 7 match the Yoga on battery life? What about support for using micro SD cards?

They were two of the big things which I found the Yoga had over my old Nexus.

Geffen · 11 Apr 2016 at 19:42

Thanks for all the comments have gone with Nexus 7.