Advice on cheap PC tablets

[Crawfy]

Looking for a v.cheap tablet for the house. More for my little one to play with, watch photos/movies and for long car journeys etc ( before she breaks my Iphone).
Something like the motorola playbook but a bit cheaper if that is possible
Anyone bought one recently and has recommendations ?

 

[rickg]

Looking for a v.cheap tablet for the house. More for my little one to play with, watch photos/movies and for long car journeys etc ( before she breaks my Iphone).
Something like the motorola playbook but a bit cheaper if that is possible
Anyone bought one recently and has recommendations ?

Blackberry Playbook going for a song at Dixons/PC World...picked one up with 64GB memory for £109

 

[gripitripit]

One of the main reasons I got the Nexus 7...so the little lad can muck about with it and we off to Turkey next year so will be handy for in-flight entertainment too.

 

[Crawfy]

One of the main reasons I got the Nexus 7...so the little lad can muck about with it and we off to Turkey next year so will be handy for in-flight entertainment too.

Agreed gripit, had a port dvd for little un when we headed to Belek last year. Booked again for next year and a wee tablet would be great for her both for the flights and in the evening. All the kids had them (free wifi in the hotel)

 

[gripitripit]

Good ol' Thomas Cook doing away with the In-Flight movies. At least you don't need to purchase the silly headphones now.

 

[dufferman]

Would you consider a 2nd hand iPad? I'm sure you could pick one up on eBay for less than £250? It might not be the all singing all dancing model, but if it's the first version of the iPad it'll be ideal for the little one, plenty of games and all that!

 

[brendy]

Ahh, my favorite subject at the moment (getting bombarded with requests in work so have been trialling and researching a lot of these).
There is a company in China names Ainol (no sniggering at the back) who make a range of tablets ranging from cheap and cheerful basic internet tools to full on ipad/nexus rivals. The Playbook kind of played itself out of the market as it has less support for its operating system.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ainol+novo

The cheaper models like the Paladin, elf and tornado will do a child rightly, decent screens and running recent/current versions of Android. The Aurora, Aurora II and Fire/flame (uk/chinese model names) are the higher specced and the fire/flame being the newest and actually beats the Nexus in a head to head spec list. Only people with too much money buy Apple or Samsung tablets, they dont even have the capability of adding extra sd card memory etc.

For what its worth, I bought my daughter an Aurora earlier this year and apart from the slightly plasticky volume button, it is a fantastic little tablet for what it cost new. I bought it from a company called Dracotek and their customer support has been brilliant (it was dropped and is currently being repaired, replacement screen? £18 quid, beat that Apple!