Tablet recommendation

[spongebob59]

Looking to replace the fire tablet which is getting increasingly buggy.

Plenty of Lenovo offers but believe the software isnt great, so leaning towards a Samsung un less there anything else worth considering.

TIA.

 

[GreiginFife]

Looking to replace the fire tablet which is getting increasingly buggy.

Plenty of Lenovo offers but believe the software isnt great, so leaning towards a Samsung un less there anything else worth considering.

TIA.

New iPad 2025 (A16 chip) looks like decent value and, IMO, will be better than it’s equivalent Android (Samsung).

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

New iPad 2025 (A16 chip) looks like decent value and, IMO, will be better than its equivalent Android (Samsung).

100% this! I bought this exact iPad in January before going away for work for 3 months. Quality and value blows my Samsung tablet I had before out of the water.

 

[RichA]

Always had Google and Samsung tablets until we reluctantly acquired an iPad 5 years ago. I wouldn't get anything else now; it's miles better than anything we had before and as fast now as it was in 2020.

 

[GreiginFife]

100% this! I bought this exact iPad in January before going away for work for 3 months. Quality and value blows my Samsung tablet I had before out of the water.

Yeah, I was an Android stalwart but went iPhone on the 12 and then got an iPad Air 5th gen in 2022 and it’s still rapid today. Way better than the Galaxy Tab S6 I had before it from 2019.

 

[KenL]

How much are you wanting to spend?
Under £200 a Samsung Galaxy tablet would be fine. If you want to spend more then an iPad is probably the way to go.

 

[spongebob59]

How much are you wanting to spend?
Under £200 a Samsung Galaxy tablet would be fine. If you want to spend more then an iPad is probably the way to go.

I'd prefer android , so I'm looking at Samsungs

 

[WorldHandicapSystem]

If you want a tablet that will just work for a long time get an iPad.

We use a mix of iPads and Galaxy tablets at work. The Galaxy tablets don’t last as long and need fettling with far more often than the iPads. So much so we are phasing them out.

 

[Orikoru]

I'm an Android man through and through when it comes to phones, but for tablets, nothing beats an iPad.

 

[spongebob59]

Can you run kodi on ipads ?

 

[Hobbit]

Can you run kodi on ipads ?

Yes, but getting onto an iPad requires another computer to “side load” it.

 

[cliveb]

I'd prefer android , so I'm looking at Samsungs

Other Android tablets are available. Samsung, like Apple, are overpriced, relying on their brand name.

 

[spongebob59]

Other Android tablets are available. Samsung, like Apple, are overpriced, relying on their brand name.

One plus ?

 

[cliveb]

One plus ?

I have no experience with them.
And looking at their website, they don't seem particularly cheap either.

My current tablet is a Lenovo TB310FU. (9" screen, don't want a big tablet). It works just fine. Cost less than £100 direct from Lenovo.

 

[Fromtherough]

If you’re coincidentally looking for a new phone, Tesco are offering the iPad 2025 A16 for ‘free’ with some iPhone 16 deals. My wife upgraded her phone last week and got the phone and ipad for £37 a month (bit of a discount as part of a family plan).

 

[spongebob59]

I never got on with iPhones, so am a.little hesitant to go down the iPad route.
It would mainly be used for browsing, Kindle, streaming.
Sideloading is possible ?
Can you install other browsers ?
Guess there are apps that work with sonos, surfshark etc.

 

[cliveb]

I never got on with iPhones, so am a.little hesitant to go down the iPad route.
It would mainly be used for browsing, Kindle, streaming.
Sideloading is possible ?
Can you install other browsers ?
Guess there are apps that work with sonos, surfshark etc.

The Lenovo I have is fine for general browsing/email/etc.
Probably not suitable for CPU-intensive games.
My browser of choice is Brave - no issues installing that.
I've also installed apk's onto it (if that's what you mean by sideloading), so no problems there. You just have to enable the capability.

The only slightly irritating things about it are:
1). Every time it does a system update, it insists on suggesting that I install a bunch of other apps and you have to de-select each one individually.
2). It runs something called Duraspeed that monitors background apps and regularly sends notifications that I have no interest in, but there's no way to uninstall it or switch off those notifications.