Best Android tablet out there??

Mr Paul · 27 Jan 2012 at 21:12

Asus Transformer original, still fantastic tablet

w1lliam · 27 Jan 2012 at 23:56

I think the Galaxy Tab Plus was on an ebay outlet for £220ish, it was a refurb tho. Not a bad price.

Docaroo · 28 Jan 2012 at 01:42

Transformer Prime by miles!!

The "crippling issues" thing is rubbish ... I have one and it's spot on!

Only a small minority of early tablets had problems and ASUS is being very proactive in addressing those.

Orcvader · 28 Jan 2012 at 02:25

Doesn't the higher end Prime fix these issues? And with a 1920x1200 resolution... it's insane! Not out till next month though...

DBT85 · 28 Jan 2012 at 02:39

Orcvader said:
Doesn't the higher end Prime fix these issues? And with a 1920x1200 resolution... it's insane! Not out till next month though...

The Prime 700 will not be out next month. Maybe June. But certainly not next month.

It's not a "fix" for the TF201, just another model that they had always planned on releasing.

Kreeeee · 28 Jan 2012 at 03:48

Docaroo said:
Transformer Prime by miles!!

The "crippling issues" thing is rubbish ... I have one and it's spot on!

Only a small minority of early tablets had problems and ASUS is being very proactive in addressing those.

Glad you like it, I couldn't recommend it to anyone personally though.

You'd be mental to buy one now with the 700 details that have been revealed.

Begbie · 28 Jan 2012 at 04:47

The xoom really takes my fancy for some reason.

If I had to see one for £200~ I would consider it.

DBT85 · 28 Jan 2012 at 05:46

Kreeeee said:
Glad you like it, I couldn't recommend it to anyone personally though.

You'd be mental to buy one now with the 700 details that have been revealed.

The 700 is also going to be at least £100 more expensive if not £200. Once it's out they'll have three tablets out covering all the bases.

It's like saying anyone buying an iPad2 is mad since the iPad3 is almost certainly coming out in March/April. The device is still capable.

StevieP · 28 Jan 2012 at 10:19

While I don't doubt that the new Prime is going to be the business (albeit I'm not sure a 1080 resolution is really warranted on such a small screen!), its still going to be mad expensive and most probably out of my price range!

So in the meantime, the Sony or the Xoom are looking the favourites!

Can anyone comment on the media capability of the Sony? A tablet that won't play most (read all!) video formats isn't going to be too much use to me!

Begbie · 28 Jan 2012 at 10:34

StevieP said:
While I don't doubt that the new Prime is going to be the business (albeit I'm not sure a 1080 resolution is really warranted on such a small screen!), its still going to be mad expensive and most probably out of my price range!

So in the meantime, the Sony or the Xoom are looking the favourites!

Can anyone comment on the media capability of the Sony? A tablet that won't play most (read all!) video formats isn't going to be too much use to me!

The Xoom, is or is getting 4.0 soon isn't it?

That is defo going to be able to play all formats.

w1lliam · 28 Jan 2012 at 10:42

I would personally avoid tegra2 tablets unless you like transcoding video files. Though the problem might be solved usjng a third party player

Bassmansam · 28 Jan 2012 at 13:16

I've had the prime for two weeks now. No problems at all. Wifi performance is good, build quality is really great too.

Bassmansam · 28 Jan 2012 at 13:34

Kreeeee said:
Glad you like it, I couldn't recommend it to anyone personally though.

You'd be mental to buy one now with the 700 details that have been revealed.

Have you had one?

Docaroo · 28 Jan 2012 at 14:02

Kreeeee said:
Glad you like it, I couldn't recommend it to anyone personally though.

You'd be mental to buy one now with the 700 details that have been revealed.

Really??

I need/wanted a tablet now ... not in (at least) 6 months ...

And also £100 more expensive?? And I don't need or want the higher res screen.

So.. no thanks - I'll take my Prime which is working great! I haven't even turned on GPS yet because I have zero use for it on a WiFi tablet ...

warren_1979 · 28 Jan 2012 at 15:47

I'm waiting for the Tab 10.1 successor.

kona786 · 28 Jan 2012 at 15:58

StevieP said:
Can anyone comment on the media capability of the Sony? A tablet that won't play most (read all!) video formats isn't going to be too much use to me!

Any and all tegra2 tablets will suck at playing mkv (high profile h.264) as it doesn't have a native hardware decoder.

warren_1979 · 29 Jan 2012 at 12:26

I've read the 10.1 successor will be dual core clocked at 2Ghz and not quad core. I think the chip is a Exynos 5250. Screen will be 11.6 inches too.

Looks tasty.

Scougar · 29 Jan 2012 at 15:33

The Transformer Prime HD when it comes out :-)

(although reading that you actually have a budget now lol). What is your max price then?

kona786 · 29 Jan 2012 at 16:11

warren_1979 said:
I've read the 10.1 successor will be dual core clocked at 2Ghz and not quad core. I think the chip is a Exynos 5250. Screen will be 11.6 inches too.

Looks tasty.

Expect a long ETA too.

StevieP · 30 Jan 2012 at 10:55

kona786 said:
Any and all tegra2 tablets will suck at playing mkv (high profile h.264) as it doesn't have a native hardware decoder.

So what you are saying is all these "media tablets" are effectively rubbish at playing media??? :confused:

Doesn't the Android market allow you to use any third party media player like it does on phones?? (eg. I use MX Video Player on my Galaxy S2 - is it the player or the phone that has the relevant codec support????)

Scougar said:
although reading that you actually have a budget now lol). What is your max price then?

I think I'll struggle to go above £300 tbh!