boysheff Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 just looked at the old thread, its from 2010. Does anyone have recommendations to make? willing to spend £400 quid. Not interested in the ipad 2. Not a fan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric_Collins Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Ipad 1 then ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danensis Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 Depends what you want it to do. The Samsung Galaxy 10.1 is as good as anything. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippogriff Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 I have had both the Toshiba Thrive / AT100 and Motorola Xoom. Both are cool. Pluses and minuses for both. Toshiba feels sturdy, which I liked, has great full sized USB, HDMI and SD card ports / slots but no Gorilla glass, speakers could be better and the cameras weren't brilliant. The Xoom is thinner, feels really well made, has Gorilla glass and excellent speakers and camera. The ports on the Xoom are the mini / micro type. The Thrive was able to be updated to Honeycomb 3.1. The Xoom updated to Honeycomb 3.2 on taking it out of the box. If you want Ice Cream Sandwich right now, then you will need to look at another tablet or root the device you buy and install a custom ROM. I would avoid the Samsung, it has only a proprietary connector... being able to access files via USB or SD card is really, really useful and is one of the main differentiators from Apple. The Samsung can, therefore, be more like an iPad. The Sony tablet is quite quirky - try it at John Lewis. Try the others at Carphone Warehouse on Fargate. Oh, when I say I have a Xoom, I mean the original Xoom and not the Xoom 2 - be aware that the Xoom 2 doesn't have the same ports / slots as the Xoom. I'm happy with my Xoom. I got it in the sale at CPW. Other than price and styling each tablet will have much the same capabilities. For £400 you can get any of these I think. For a little more you could even look at a Transformer Prime. Don't agonise over how much storage space they have - especially if you get one with an SD card slot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippogriff Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 P.S. - I wrote these entries on my Xoom. Upon purchasing an Android tablet, the first thing I recommend you do is shell out £1.50 on something like Thumb Keyboard which replaces the stock keyboard (which ain't terrible) and makes typing on the tablet faster, cleaner and more satisfying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorkiepudd Posted February 3, 2012 Share Posted February 3, 2012 There are some cracking deals on the RIM Playbook at the mo, and I believe you can run android on that but it doesn't come pre installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoGo_dancer Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I've got an asus eee transformer with keyboard dock. It took a lot of getting used to and it does just as much as my husbands ipad2 but overall the android apps just aren't as slick as the apple apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElasticMan Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 There are some cracking deals on the RIM Playbook at the mo, and I believe you can run android on that but it doesn't come pre installed. The playbook has an update coming very soon that will allow it run Android apps. Makes is a much more attractive option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalPuppy Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Amazon Fire - just for the ecosystem. For me thats what tablets and smartphones are about. Amazon is the only tablet manufacturer to compete with Apple cause of this, in my view. Just hopefully Amazon comes out with more models. rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grand Posted May 6, 2012 Share Posted May 6, 2012 hp touchpad is brilliant with custom rom ics on it so so smooth and good size screen ive had ipads and to be honest for what i paid for my touchpad i much prefer it over ipad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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