What are Sub £100 tablets like?
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So stay away without question then?
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I still have a G1. 
Kindle Fire or Playbook is about as cheap as you can get without having a rubbish screen.
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Similar to the taste of my gouch
Right, so firstly forget any advice you've been given in this thread so far, it looks like the people here have never used a decent budget tablet (in fact I know one who definitely hasn't). While it is true that 99% of tablets under £100 are garbage there are a few pretty good ones, normally based around the Allwinner A10 (ARM A8-Cortex and Mali-400 GPU). These are tablets like the Teclast P76ti, the Ainol Novo Advanced and Elf). It's important to note that you should't buy an Ainol Novo Paladin with a MIPS processor as barely any apps work on it.
You'll find these tablets will handle most tasks you throw at them, games, video, browsing, e-books (Kindle etc), email. They are all multipoint capacative screens and there is a fantastic ROM community growing around the Allwinner A10 at Slatedroid and Tablet Republic. I use a Teclast P76ti or Ainol Novo Elf in my car headrest for playing kid's videos on longer journeys and they are ideal for tasks like this.
I know it's always hard to know whether someone is 'bigging up' a product just because they have it, but I also have an HTC Flyer, HP Touchpad, Apple iPad 2, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S2 so that is certainly not the case with me and I have a great deal of experience with device testing due to my job.
If you have any questions or apps you want me to try and video for you on a Teclast or Elf let me know and I hope this advice is more useful than "they're crap, but I can't explain why in any detail".
You'll find these tablets will handle most tasks you throw at them, games, video, browsing, e-books (Kindle etc), email. They are all multipoint capacative screens and there is a fantastic ROM community growing around the Allwinner A10 at Slatedroid and Tablet Republic. I use a Teclast P76ti or Ainol Novo Elf in my car headrest for playing kid's videos on longer journeys and they are ideal for tasks like this.
I know it's always hard to know whether someone is 'bigging up' a product just because they have it, but I also have an HTC Flyer, HP Touchpad, Apple iPad 2, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S2 so that is certainly not the case with me and I have a great deal of experience with device testing due to my job.
If you have any questions or apps you want me to try and video for you on a Teclast or Elf let me know and I hope this advice is more useful than "they're crap, but I can't explain why in any detail".
I know it's always hard to know whether someone is 'bigging up' a product just because they have it, but I also have an HTC Flyer, HP Touchpad, Apple iPad 2, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S2 so that is certainly not the case with me and I have a great deal of experience with device testing due to my job.
If you have any questions or apps you want me to try and video for you on a Teclast or Elf let me know and I hope this advice is more useful than "they're crap, but I can't explain why in any detail".
I have a question. What prog like Ad aware can I use on my Xoom ?His answer is correct though. You asked for opinions and he told you
Wtf are you on about lol?
Right, so firstly forget any advice you've been given in this thread so far, it looks like the people here have never used a decent budget tablet (in fact I know one who definitely hasn't). While it is true that 99% of tablets under £100 are garbage there are a few pretty good ones, normally based around the Allwinner A10 (ARM A8-Cortex and Mali-400 GPU). These are tablets like the Teclast P76ti, the Ainol Novo Advanced and Elf). It's important to note that you should't buy an Ainol Novo Paladin with a MIPS processor as barely any apps work on it.
You'll find these tablets will handle most tasks you throw at them, games, video, browsing, e-books (Kindle etc), email. They are all multipoint capacative screens and there is a fantastic ROM community growing around the Allwinner A10 at Slatedroid and Tablet Republic. I use a Teclast P76ti or Ainol Novo Elf in my car headrest for playing kid's videos on longer journeys and they are ideal for tasks like this.
I know it's always hard to know whether someone is 'bigging up' a product just because they have it, but I also have an HTC Flyer, HP Touchpad, Apple iPad 2, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S2 so that is certainly not the case with me and I have a great deal of experience with device testing due to my job.
If you have any questions or apps you want me to try and video for you on a Teclast or Elf let me know and I hope this advice is more useful than "they're crap, but I can't explain why in any detail".
Obviously I haven't tried any of the little nasty tablets you can find online, but I have tried the mid-range ones like the Vega. I assume they are worse than this, and that is fairly awful.
Unless you buy a decent tablet, I don't think they are worth bothering with at all.
I think the TouchPad would be the exception to this rule (I bought 6 in the end
), but that isn't available now.I've noticed you have a £130~ budget for this, and a £180~ budget for a new phone, so I'll suggest this to you.
You should get a Galaxy Note. Then you have a phone that is as good as they come, and a small, portable tablet all rolled into one.
It's a touch big if you use it as a phone often, but I really can't think of a better solution for you right now if you really want a tablet.
Find the extra money and get one!
I really liked the design of it as well. I remember being concerned about whether or not you could feel the lip when the phone was in your pocket - but you couldn't.
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Pants.
speaking from experience or just imagining that something below/around 100 quid mark is garbage?
