OT - tablets :- Nexus 7 32gb (2012 model) or Asus Memo Pad HD 16gb

[Jim K]

both around £130 which one and why please?

TIA

[Jim K]

ah.... should be Asus Memo Pad HD *7* 16GB

[John Williamson]

Depends what you want it for. The one with only 16Gb of stoage would be totally useless to me, for example, as I like to have about 35 Gig of music available on tap.

On the other hand, if you want to watch HD video, the non-HD display isn't good.

[Jim K]

mmm, so bunging a 16gb SD card in the Asus' SD slot would tip it towards the top for you then...

Cheers

[John Williamson]

If it'll take a 16 Gig card, it'll take a 32 Gig card, which would be alsmost big enough, given all the other cr@p I tend to want on a computer. Then again, as they're both tablets, and I've already got a laptop for surfing and a nice Archos media player with 250 Gig of storage for listening and watching, it's a bit of a moot point for me.

[EricP]

Buy the Hudl. Nice general tablet with everything you could want, except the GPS is a bit vacant and doddery.

I have a new Nexus 7.2 and wish I had not bothered. Superb machine but so restricted by Googles desire to force cloud storage on you instead of normal connectivity. Also I am pissed off going to loads of web sites to be turned away because I do not have Flash.

If you do get a Nexus, you will have to root it to put things right.

[The Other John]

Just use Firefox instead of Chrome - FF installs Flash without problems. YMMV.

[dennis]

Ebuyer have a toshiba win 8.1 tablet for £199 including Office if anyone is interested. Quad core atom IIRC. It would probably need a micro SD card too.

[Jim K]

Hudl? what's it got that the others don't for £10 cheaper...

[Mark]

Flash is past its sell by date now. It's about time sites stopped using it.

[JimK]

I note aldidl are offering a 7" quad core tablet for £80 .... Anyone care to critique?

Jim K

[Bob Henson]

If it's a good as Tesco's Hudl, it will be excellent.

[stuart noble]

I went for the Acer Iconia which was £60 ish (8gb) with an SD slot. Not crazy about Jellybean mind

[Andy Burns]

My 2012 Nexus7 was fine with JB4.1 from the factory, it felt quite laggy once it had been upgraded to JB4.2 and 4.3, with KitKat it feels better than it ever did with JellyBean.

CM11 seems to be available for various Iconias ...

[stuart noble]

Hmm....

[stuart noble]

Doesn't look as though the upgrade applies to the B1 Iconia. Not that bothered TBH as I think it's the whole Android thing I'm having to get used to