May Need A New Tablet

[pastafreak]

Suggestions wanted...
I am quickly falling out of love with my Nexus 7. The 2012 model was great. But the 2013,that I've only had since July,is driving me over the edge. I posted about problems with the touch screen back in December.
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Technology/Question1465799.html
It's steadily gotten worse in spite of me following some of the suggestions that *may*solve the problem...including soft reset,and uninstalling some recent apps.
So maybe a new one is on the cards...preferably with a larger screen than my current 7" one.

[sherrardk]

We have a variety of tablets (it's like a branch of Dixons) - Kindles (but then you're tied into Amazon apps), an ancient Nexuus, a Lenovo, iPad (mine - it is lovely but over priced) and an Asus, no problem with any of them and all different sized screens. We did have a windows based tablet but none of us could use it.

[-SharonA-]

Go for a Kindle!

[VHG]

Once you start to get a larger screen (and more memory) the price start to go up a lot. So tablets are not a cheap item.

The Which best buy at the moment is the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 (with a 9.7 inch screen) but that is £370.

The cheapest in the top 10 (with large screens) is the Lenovo Tab2 A10 with a 10" screen that costs £180.

There is a couple of Kindles that get good reviews but then you are locked in to Amazon.

There are some tablets with slightly larger screen than your Nexus such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 (with an 8.4" screen) but even that is £250.

[pastafreak]

While the cost is a consideration,I think ease of use, and overall quality is equally important. I'm certainly not looking for the cheapest. I've heard good things about Samsung tablets,which I'll investigate...and of course there is also the ipad...

[sherrardk]

Could you go and play with some and see which one you like best? We got the Lenovo from the Argos outlet thing on EBay for £80 (think it should have been £160 ish) - it was set up in Korean but we got that sorted out :)

[mazie]

iPad for me. I don't like the Kindle Fire. Love the Kindle paperwhite for books though.

[mastercraft]

I have a Samsung 3 - 7" tab, and a Samsung 4 - 10" tab.
Both work really well in all applications.
Just cannot fault them!

[marval]

I have a Lenovo, I find it very good.

[Old_Geezer]

Interesting. Had a look around the Net and it seems manufacturers tell lies. You see a tablet boasting of 32G of memory, but when you dig deeper they admit that they aren't referring to RAM at all but ROM !!!!! They claim 32G but you get a measly 3G.

[pastafreak]

Are any manufacturers particularly guilty of this?

[hc4361]

Can you provide a link or two, please, OG?

[Old_Geezer]

http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/mobile-devices/tablets/galaxy-tab-s/SM-T710NZKEBTU

Simply looked up the Which recommendation and the retailer showed the 32G item was only 3G of RAM. Disbelieving I checked at the manufacturer's site where it was confirmed.

[hc4361]

It seems they all claim xGB storage, not RAM.

[hc4361]

16 GB iPad:

RAM capacity: 256 MiB
ROM capacity: 14.9 GiB

[hc4361]

ROM seems to be standard in tablets. iPad 32GB

RAM capacity: 1 GiB
ROM capacity: 29.8 GiB

[Old_Geezer]

But it's not the owner's personal storage, I've just discovered this cynical con, it's their bloated OS. Any reasonable individual interprets memory as RAM and they know it. They can't hide their blatant lie behind a pretence that ROM counts as "storage memory". (Almost as bad as mobile companies claiming unlimited data and then limiting it.) They all get away with "murder" these days. And the law allows it and the public excuses it.

[hc4361]

I have a 32GB smart phone, which in reality is 3GB RAM, the rest ROM. I have 7GB of video stored on it, as well as documents, music and photos. Loads of apps. I still have 15.33GB spare so I don't see a problem.

[hc4361]

My 2012 Nexus 7 us a 32 GB and still has 13GB free. The total available space to me is 28.17GB, the rest being the OS. Lots of films etc on that too

[Old_Geezer]

It is impossible for you to write to Read Only Memory. If you are saving more Gb of data than you have RAM to store it in then either you've added a card that your mobile will use or someone has something wrong. The problem is that the item claims to have a large amount of memory which in the spec it admits it doesn't have.

[hc4361]

There is no facility to add a memory card to my Nexus 7, OG. I very often download a video or three to it to transfer to another PC. It works just fine and I've never had a storage full warning.