In message , Adrian
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On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 10:27:41 +0000, A.Lee wrote:

I've recently bought a 9" Tablet with Android OS at £38 inc. delivery.

I've been toying with the idea of a cheap tablet. What one did you go for?

I'll jump in here as by accident I seem to have ended up with a bunch of
cheap tablets. All of these seem excellent, and each cost between £26
and £45.
Makes/models are generally unimportant and I suspect most are just
badge-engineered from major makers (one I saw was offering, I seem to
remember, deliveries of up to 30,000 per day).
All the cheap Chinese ones I have suffer from poor internal
loudspeakers, but the audio is fine on headphones. Internal mics vary
from awful to average.
Because I was trying to do several different things, I gradually ended
up having to move to a greater range of facilities. The rule seems to
be, if it doesn't mention it, it probably doesn't have it.
My 9" tablet has low resolution, which I didn't pick up on in the
advert, but has 10-point touch. I have no idea whether this is better
than the 5-point touch of the other tablets. To my surprise, I found it
didn't have bluetooth.
I was trying to get something to interrogate the car's diagnostics. Many
of the cheapest tablets don't have bluetooth.

Of the tablets I have, the favourites are an Ainol AX3 (bought
secondhand but unused and missing the back because it had been nearly
installed in a car dash). It's a quad-core phablet, so it has Bluetooth,
GPS, etc, and 2 sim slots. Great for sms with the big keyboard.
The mistake was the MediaTek MTK-8312 phablet. I bought one new and it
arrived with a dodgy micro-usb charging socket. While not knowing the
response from the seller, I saw and bought the Ainol. The seller
replaced the MTK, so I kept the 2. MTK is 2-core, and feels a little
slower, but it, too, does everything I want.
Both these have very average battery life.
Oh and the Ainol came with a load of apps in Chinese. I was thinking of
taking it to my local takeaway and asking what they are. I only
recognise the Chinese version of Opera.

The thing I use every day is the obsolete Blackberry Playbook. Excellent
audio and video for recording and playback, GPS ok, wifi has some
quirks, but great battery life, 64G memory. I mainly use it for the
alarm clock and listening to radio from around the world, but have made
videos of musicians with it. Probably a bit late for the sell-off of
these now, though. The real leather case was 25p in a bin in PCWorld.

Today, I would buy a phablet and check the screen resolution, bluetooth
etc., and try to check audio quality. All except the 9" are 7", which is
a bit small for some websites and a bit big as a phone.
--
Bill