Which one is better? Or are they both useless?
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Which one is better? Or are they both useless?
It's out of this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/NATPC-M009S-...xgy_01_03_t_lh
Or this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Archos-Home-...A1JSPH1YXH84YI
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If they are both useless, could some tech whizz guide me to a tablet that might not be useless for around the same price?
Thanks muchly
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Re: Which one is better? Or are they both useless?You really do get what you pay for with tablets. In this case, that's not much. Namely, resistive touch screens, the stuff of satan. The experience will be nothing like what you've experienced with capacitive gadgets, they're pretty horrible. I personally wouldn't go for either, I'd save up and get something decent.(Original post by crazyunicorn133)
It's out of this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/NATPC-M009S-...xgy_01_03_t_lh
Or this one: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Archos-Home-...A1JSPH1YXH84YI
??
If they are both useless, could some tech whizz guide me to a tablet that might not be useless for around the same price?
Thanks muchly
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Re: Which one is better? Or are they both useless?
For the love of god, don't. Any tablet under about £300 is generally absolute ****e, and I work with them on a daily basis. I'm not talking about tablets with all the bells and whistles (although they do fall into the £300+ price bracket anyway), just tablets that are basically usable. There's no point buying a £60 tablet running Android 2.2 - soon enough it won't be able to work with anything with the impending explosion of 4.0 devices, the build quality will be terrible and you'll have a really tough time just trying to get the damn thing to recognise your fingers.
Please, don't buy either. You'll just be wasting £60-70.
You can get an iPad 2 or Sony Tablet S (my favourite tablet at the moment) for under £25 a month from a 2 year leasing deal with PCW/Currys, or on contract for £30-60 with mobile data included from Vodafone, O2, etc., but other than that I would suggest just saving up and getting a better tablet.
The cheapest tablet worth looking at is the Blackberry Playbook, but it's only much cop if you have a Blackberry phone, and costs £169. Decent Androids start more towards the £280 price range, although there are a few usable Archos tablets for under £200 like the ARNOVA 9. Amazon is also expected to release the excellent Kindle Fire, or a variant of it, later this year in the UK for under £200 probably.Last edited by Aphotic Cosmos; 05-04-2012 at 19:06.