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    Magazine reading, podcasts, forums, videos

    Discussion in 'Smartphones and Tablets' started by urville, Jul 24, 2015.

  1. urville

    urville Notebook Guru

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    My goal is to pick up a tablet, something for reading articles, youtube, forums, magazines, podcasts, etc. Not even any email or games or anything. I hear stories that updates make the older units unusable as far as iPads go.

    Is it feasible to buy like a first gen iPad or older android tablet that would still do this? I dont expect it to be unrealistically snappy or anything, but... would it be reasonable? I dont want to be hating it because its horribly slow, but obviously i want as large as i can get as cheap as i can get or I would go buy a brand new one... but then alot of its power would be a waste i think for what i want to do...
     
    urville, Jul 24, 2015
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  2. radji

    radji Farewell, Solenya...

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    Just for reading?

    Get a Kindle.
     
    radji, Jul 25, 2015
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  3. paopaokk

    paopaokk Notebook Enthusiast

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    if you just for reading, Kindle is good for you, but if u want to watch video. i suggest u get a used ipad or a Samsung Galaxy tab A 8.0.
     
    paopaokk, Jul 25, 2015
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  4. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Well what is your price budget as that is quite important..
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Jul 27, 2015
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  5. urville

    urville Notebook Guru

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    Sorry, got sidetracked on life.

    I laptop for most things. I'd say reading PDFs, surfing, and youtube type stuff.

    I can spend money on it, I just dont know if its worth $600 dollars to do just that. I guess I was trying to figure out what that would cost me, those features to see if it was wortht he expenditure.
     
    urville, Aug 18, 2015
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  6. urville

    urville Notebook Guru

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    Is 50-100 possible for what I want it to do?
     
    urville, Aug 22, 2015
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  7. Bytes-N-Stuff

    Bytes-N-Stuff Notebook Enthusiast

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    Not really, I mean sure there are tablets out there that you can get for that price, but they're that cheap for a reason.

    I'd go with a Nexus 7 or one of the newer Asus Zenpad 8

    You can get the Zenpad 8 for about 200 bucks, the Nexus 7 can be had for about 150 or so depending on sales, but I think it's 180 at it's normal price.

    The only issue with the Nexus 7 at this point is that it's older and it's starting to show its age, but since it's a Nexus device you can still get the latest OS, so it should stay current for a little while longer.
     
    Bytes-N-Stuff, Sep 6, 2015
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  8. Tsunade_Hime

    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    I've seen the Nexus 7 as low as 150, but 160-170 is its normal price. I still think it is a far competent choice than the cheapo 100 dollar tablets. The fact it is a Nexus devices is already bonus points, and a WUXGA 7" screen, good battery life, still has good performance and 2 GB RAM.
     
    Tsunade_Hime, Sep 8, 2015
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