Tablet advice required

I never understood the whole "I hate Apple" or "I hate *this company*" it makes no sense to me.
 
mcfcstu said:
Anyone know how to stream live footie on the kindle hd fire ???
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To be fair, you will run in to problems, no matter what tablets you use. They do not have the greatest OS optimised for such a function... yet.

That said, we are beginning to see web pages with inbuilt HTML5, like the Sky site, where you can bypass this annoying problem. Flash is virtually dead now.

denislawsbackheel said:
I'm on my second ipad 2 in a year. The home button packs up. It is a known fault. Apple's replacement policy is second to none but it is nevertheless a design fault. Apple also refuse to implement EU law regarding warranties, only offering a 1 year warranty.
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Okay, first things first; this is b*ll*cks.

If you are going to standard shops then you may be subject to this 'year' only. If you go to more specialised tech shops, you can bag a 2 year world wide warranty at £69.

Know who to deal with.

Irwell said:
shevtheblue said:
Haha. Im an android fanboy, even i recognise thats nonsense.
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It's not nonsense at all.

In all form factors iOS devices are outperformed by phones/tablets that are both superior in terms of hardware specification and software functionality. That amazing Do Not Disturb function that Apple keep advertising on TV? Well it doesn't work properly on iOS (it doesn't turn off sometimes) and I've had it on Android for years. Every version is at least a generation behind the competition.

As for what I said about their declining market share, well just look at the numbers. Their market share in smart phones is now around half that of Samsung. They are also no longer the largest tablet vendor having been passed by Google, with Samsung and Amazon on the verge of doing so too.

It's a dated and overpriced ecosystem and it's going the way all their products end up going. Why do you think they had to be bailed out after Steve Jobs left the first time around? Because without Jobs' sales pitches people realised that they could actually get better for cheaper. "16:9 screens are wrong, 4:3 screens are the future... 16:9 screens are wrong, 4:3 screens are the future... 16:9 screens are wrong, 4:3 screens are the future... Look at the new iPhone with it's amazing, innovative 16:9 screen!"
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It is true that the iPad still doesn't offer true 16:9, even after all it's rival and cheaper competitors pretty much do!! It still has a noticeable black border around the frame. It is an incredibly silly oversight.
 
mscenterh750 said:
So is the Google nexus 7 good ?. I'm considering purchasing one this week, I've read reviews etc and the feeling I get is that It's a good piece of kit. Any info would be most welcome.
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I'm using mine now and it's a quality bit of kit. However I use it mostly in the house, so I'm beginning to wonder if I really should have gone for the nexus 10 - a bigger screen may have been useful.
 
Not sure why anyone would choose a closed source tablet like an I-Pad.You cant put your own movies and songs on,whats the point ?,if your loaded and don't mind paying through the nose for everything then fine it is alright for you.

My experience is people want a pad to put that nice supply of songs and movies from their personal PC on so they can take it on holiday with them.One that will play all audio , mpeg formats, also double up as an ebook reader totally open source.And do a bit of browsing from a Wifi hotspot.

Most people have state of the art mobile phones so a camera is not usually a prerequisite.I have never seen anybody taking holiday snaps with an I -Pad yet.

Me and the missus have one of these, they are less than £100.00 and does much more than all the pads on here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Launch-Pric...D8WM/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1358716304&sr=8-4

http://www.amazon.co.uk/TABTRONICS-...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1358716524&sr=1-1
 
Thanks for that maig. My good lady wife has got the Samsung tab2 10.1 and the screen size is super. If I buy one it will be mainly for household use and don't really have the budget for the nexus 10, so I will go for the 7. I like android and the specs on it seem very good at a decent price.
 
thedogsbollocks said:
Not sure why anyone would choose a closed source tablet like an I-Pad.You cant put your own movies and songs on,whats the point ?,if your loaded and don't mind paying through the nose for everything then fine it is alright for you.

My experience is people want a pad to put that nice supply of songs and movies from their personal PC on so they can take it on holiday with them.One that will play all audio , mpeg formats, also double up as an ebook reader totally open source.And do a bit of browsing from a Wifi hotspot.

Most people have state of the art mobile phones so a camera is not usually a prerequisite.I have never seen anybody taking holiday snaps with an I -Pad yet.

Me and the missus have one of these, they are less than £100.00 and does much more than all the pads on here

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Not really sure what you're trying to upload, but for less than £100, you're going to be playing with an extremely poor kit with low processor power. It's only the Nexus 7 that stands up to scrutiny (at just over £100 in online stores) that uses the Tegra 3 quad core processor well in that build. For example, there is a Lenovo Idea Tab that uses the exact same processor and is p*ss poor in comparison, imo!

Cheaper than £100 is not recommended as you get what you pay for. My 3 year old has a similar priced model that plays films and music and it's just a basic machine.
 
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