coozer
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 08:26 PM |
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10" Tablet
So, after having a look round I want a 10" tablet..
Narrowed the search down to a Asus ME302C MeMO Pad FHD 10
This website looks the cheapest..
http://tabletsonly.co.uk/extra.aspx?me=tabletsonly&pn=ME302C-1B019A
What do you think?
Is the website OK, anyone bought off them?
[Edited on 18/1/14 by coozer]
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JC
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 08:29 PM |
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iPad mini all day long for me 
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sdh2903
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 08:46 PM |
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Or a full sized ipad 2 or 3 from the apple refurb shop. I've not yet played with an android tablet yet that just 'works' as well as
an ipad, and I'm a huge android fan.
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Irony
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 09:09 PM |
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After being a hardcore apple user for 15 years I just won't touch their iOS devices. To many restrictions on what you can and cannot do. If
your a everyday user then iOS is fine, if your a power user the I phones/iPads are almost impossible without jailbraking them.
Asus make good tablets, I have a nexus 7. Have you tried looking at the nexus 10? They are getting a bit long in the tooth now but there might be
some good deals about.
[Edited on 18/1/14 by Irony]
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loggyboy
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 09:13 PM |
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Galaxy tab 2 or 3, very pleased with my 10.1 tab 2 for last year.
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loggyboy
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 09:15 PM |
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http://www.johnlewis.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-3-10-1-tablet-intel-atom-android-10-1-wi-fi-16gb/p583919?kpid=232274342&s_kenid=2a3f000c-ce55-3f48-2b8
4-00006e75e0f1&s_kwcid=ppc_pla&tmad=c&tmcampid=73
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coozer
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 09:41 PM |
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Thanks chaps, however I am no way going for any Apple things and I also ruled out the Samsung tablets..
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big-vee-twin
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 09:43 PM |
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Asus make the Nexus 7 and Nexus 10 for Google and both are very good I have the 7 and its great.
This is their own version which I would imagine are just as good.
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Dopdog
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 11:06 PM |
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Sony xperia all day long
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britishtrident
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 11:27 PM |
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Asus make Nexus. but Nexus will slways be first choice.
Don't forget the Kindle Fire HD and HDX
Much as I like Samsung phones I don't rate the Samsung Tablets.
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sdh2903
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 11:35 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by britishtrident
Asus make Nexus. but Nexus will slways be first choice.
Don't forget the Kindle Fire HD and HDX
Much as I like Samsung phones I don't rate the Samsung Tablets.
No no no!!! The kindle tablets are pants, they are cheap for a reason.
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sdh2903
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| posted on 18/1/14 at 11:41 PM |
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Just to say aswell there's a new 10" mk2 version of the nexus due any day. Might be worth holding on to see what spec/price it has.
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splitrivet
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 12:21 AM |
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Kindle tablets have your balls locked to amazon just like apple products to itunes.
Cheers,
Bob
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craig1410
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 02:30 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Irony
After being a hardcore apple user for 15 years I just won't touch their iOS devices. To many restrictions on what you can and cannot do. If
your a everyday user then iOS is fine, if your a power user the I phones/iPads are almost impossible without jailbraking them.
[Edited on 18/1/14 by Irony]
What a load of bollocks, I'm a "power user" (software consultant) and iOS is perfectly fine without jail breaking and at least you
don't have all your personal data stolen and exploited as you have with a lot of Android apps.
What is a "power user" these day anyway? lol
C.
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craig1410
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 02:35 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Thanks chaps, however I am no way going for any Apple things and I also ruled out the Samsung tablets..
Ah, closed mine you are (in a Yoda voice) Good luck with the dark side (Android)
Ask yourself this question. Do you want to buy a great product (Apple) or have your personal data sold (Google)?
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BenB
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 08:15 AM |
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I couldn't say no to a Nook hd plus. Crazy cheap! brilliant screen and full access to google play so not really the walled garden it was. At
some point I was planning on installing cyano but haven't found the need. Only annoyance was google play decided flash was not compatible so did
not offer it so I had to sideload it.
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 08:46 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by craig1410
quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Thanks chaps, however I am no way going for any Apple things and I also ruled out the Samsung tablets..
Ah, closed mine you are (in a Yoda voice) Good luck with the dark side (Android)
Ask yourself this question. Do you want to buy a great product (Apple) or have your personal data sold (Google)?
That sounds more like a closed mind than anything to be honest. I've recently tried IOS7 on an iPAD 4 and it feels very slow and laggy compared
to my cheap Samsung Tab.
Ask yourself this question: do you want to have powerful hardware at low cost, a fast smooth and open operating system and a massive choice of
applications, or do you want to buy an Apple device?
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scudderfish
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 09:52 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by craig1410
quote:
Originally posted by Irony
After being a hardcore apple user for 15 years I just won't touch their iOS devices. To many restrictions on what you can and cannot do. If
your a everyday user then iOS is fine, if your a power user the I phones/iPads are almost impossible without jailbraking them.
[Edited on 18/1/14 by Irony]
What a load of bollocks, I'm a "power user" (software consultant) and iOS is perfectly fine without jail breaking and at least you
don't have all your personal data stolen and exploited as you have with a lot of Android apps.
What is a "power user" these day anyway? lol
C.
I'm a "power user" (software developer) and as far as I'm aware iOS devices are shiny toys compared to Android. Can iOS
devices now do serial comms over Bluetooth to talk to Megasquirt yet? Have Prolific or FTDI released drivers for them so you can use common
USB-Serial adapters to talk to Megasquirt? Are there any development environments that run on the device and produced compiled code? I wrote chunks
of MSLogger directly on my Asus Transformer TF300T (detachable keyboard that charges the tablet in use is very handy) but as far as I'm aware
that wouldn't be possible on an ipad, and I'd have to buy an extra keyboard as well.
Regards,
Dave
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v8kid
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 10:31 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by craig1410
quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Thanks chaps, however I am no way going for any Apple things and I also ruled out the Samsung tablets..
Ah, closed mine you are (in a Yoda voice) Good luck with the dark side (Android)
Ask yourself this question. Do you want to buy a great product (Apple) or have your personal data sold (Google)?
Or possibly be regarded as a little bit neurotic? Is there something criminal going on with with Google?
Apart from bank details surely we shouldn't be frightened of sharing anything we do.
Rather than being a "make" hater or lover it seems a better idea to use tools that are appropriate to our needs.
All in good fun.
Cheers
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David Jenkins
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 10:42 AM |
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Oh - it must be weeks since we last had an Apple/Android war!
I think iPads are very good, and easy to use - but I'm not prepared to pay the price premium for them. There are also some apps that I use
which are only available on Android so that effectively made my mind up for me. These include set-up apps for radio-controlled aircraft flight
control boards - the developers have said that their not going to write iOS versions as the approval process is too slow, complex and expensive. I
don't know if that's true, but they're certainly not going near it.
I have an original Nexus 7 that I bought direct from the Google store, as I did for my Nexus 4 phone. The tablet was bought to run those special
apps, with not much intention of using it for anything else. I now use it a lot for all sorts of things...
There are plenty of downsides to Android, such as the many junk apps in the store and the higher risk of malicious apps, but it's still my OS of
choice.
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Scuzzle
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 11:28 AM |
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I'm not a huge Apple fan, I find their products very much 'our way or no way' and while they work great if you are prepared to buy
all their products and use all their software I resent being tied to this. Plus I also resent why Apple just can't make their phones and
tablets right to begin with, just add flash and make the memory expandable - it's not difficult, but they know the same mugs will line up to pay
top dollar to buy the latest generation of their Iphone or Ipad even though they are still that bit lacking.
If you want a good tablet don't rule out out the cheap Chinese ones, they are all made there anyway, even the Ipads. Check out the specs and
reviews on a Pipo M9 Pro 3G, it has everything you could ever want in a tablet for a reasonable price.
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Smoking Frog
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 11:59 AM |
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I got Mrs SF a android tablet for xmass. Not knowing much about them I had to research a bit. The latest specification for android tabs seems to be
:- Retina screen, 1.8Ghz quad core CPU, 16GB memory (minimum) using that I created a short list of the different makes and models. Watched uTube
reviews where they are often compared to the iPad. Once the make and model is known it's just a matter of getting the best deal. The point is
once you move away from the big named tablets there are better spec tablets out there far cheaper than the one you suggest. The cheap slates (new
word for me) are not as good as a iPad yet, but not that far behind either.
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Proby
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 04:02 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by David Jenkins
Oh - it must be weeks since we last had an Apple/Android war!
I think iPads are very good, and easy to use - but I'm not prepared to pay the price premium for them. There are also some apps that I use
which are only available on Android so that effectively made my mind up for me. These include set-up apps for radio-controlled aircraft flight
control boards - the developers have said that their not going to write iOS versions as the approval process is too slow, complex and expensive. I
don't know if that's true, but they're certainly not going near it.
I have an original Nexus 7 that I bought direct from the Google store, as I did for my Nexus 4 phone. The tablet was bought to run those special
apps, with not much intention of using it for anything else. I now use it a lot for all sorts of things...
There are plenty of downsides to Android, such as the many junk apps in the store and the higher risk of malicious apps, but it's still my OS of
choice.
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craig1410
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 09:53 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeRJ
quote:
Originally posted by craig1410
quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Thanks chaps, however I am no way going for any Apple things and I also ruled out the Samsung tablets..
Ah, closed mine you are (in a Yoda voice) Good luck with the dark side (Android)
Ask yourself this question. Do you want to buy a great product (Apple) or have your personal data sold (Google)?
That sounds more like a closed mind than anything to be honest. I've recently tried IOS7 on an iPAD 4 and it feels very slow and laggy compared
to my cheap Samsung Tab.
Ask yourself this question: do you want to have powerful hardware at low cost, a fast smooth and open operating system and a massive choice of
applications, or do you want to buy an Apple device?
It was meant partly in jest but also referring to the modus operandi of the respective companies. Apple state at every opportunity that they believe
in making "great products" whereas Google's business is to collect as much information they can about individuals to sell to the
highest bidder for advertising purposes. Pretty much everything that Google do is geared towards selling more ads whether that be scanning your gmail
for keywords or tracking your location via your phone or looking at what you search for on the web. It's all fed in to the advertising engine.
I'm not being a scaremonger, this is what they do, plain and simple. Some people are happy with using free products in return for personal data,
I'd rather pay for the products and keep my data to myself.
You say you tried iOS 7 on an iPad 4 and it was laggy. I was running it on an iPad 3 before I got my iPad Air and it wasn't great to be fair but
the iPad 3 was a bit ahead of its time with the retina display and didn't really have the GPU/CPU power to cope properly. That said, it was
perfectly usable and since the iPad 4 is twice as fast it should work well on it. The iPad Air is twice as fast again and it is as smooth as butter. I
wonder if your perception of lag was due to the animations which can be turned off if you prefer. Anyway, glad you like your samsung.
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craig1410
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| posted on 19/1/14 at 10:16 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by scudderfish
quote:
Originally posted by craig1410
quote:
Originally posted by Irony
After being a hardcore apple user for 15 years I just won't touch their iOS devices. To many restrictions on what you can and cannot do. If
your a everyday user then iOS is fine, if your a power user the I phones/iPads are almost impossible without jailbraking them.
[Edited on 18/1/14 by Irony]
What a load of bollocks, I'm a "power user" (software consultant) and iOS is perfectly fine without jail breaking and at least you
don't have all your personal data stolen and exploited as you have with a lot of Android apps.
What is a "power user" these day anyway? lol
C.
I'm a "power user" (software developer) and as far as I'm aware iOS devices are shiny toys compared to Android. Can iOS
devices now do serial comms over Bluetooth to talk to Megasquirt yet? Have Prolific or FTDI released drivers for them so you can use common
USB-Serial adapters to talk to Megasquirt? Are there any development environments that run on the device and produced compiled code? I wrote chunks
of MSLogger directly on my Asus Transformer TF300T (detachable keyboard that charges the tablet in use is very handy) but as far as I'm aware
that wouldn't be possible on an ipad, and I'd have to buy an extra keyboard as well.
Regards,
Dave
I've never looked before and serial comms to megasquirt is hardly Apple's core customer, but a cursory search on the web revealed that
iPad's can indeed communicate via serial interfaces. Here's the first link I found ( http://www.get-console.com ). In a more general
sense, I use several iOS applications to talk to my car's OBD computer via bluetooth or WiFi and these work very well indeed. I have no wish to
go back to serial comms when there are much better options available today.
Development environments which produce "compiled code" - hmm, well given that an awful lot of code these days (probably the majority in
fact) is not "compiled" per se, I'd say this was an edge case. I do most of my development these days using Ruby, Ruby on Rails,
Javascript, Coffescript, HTML5 and CSS3 and I use the iPad actively as a test device, or to connect to remote servers and edit code or to run
automated test suites live while I'm developing on my Macbook Pro. Tools like Coda and Diet Coda can be used very effectively to carry out web
development using nothing but the iPad. In fact I did this on a long flight recently where I wrote a whole website while offline. I then just clicked
the upload button when I landed and it was all pushed to the web server via FTP. I think you'd be surprised just how much real work you can get
done with one of these "shiny toys" 
I use an Apple bluetooth keyboard with my iPad Air when I'm doing a lot of work on it, but it is by no means essential. However, when you are
being paid by the day as a professional developer, it makes sense to pay a few extra quid to maximise your productivity.
Anyway, I didn't mean to start another Apple/Android war. 
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