Rating: 4/5
Review:
A very good budget tablet
This tablet was sent to me for review. It is pretty basic, but it does the basics
well. It has quite a lot of limitations
but it's well made and costs less than thirty quid. You're not going to get brilliant specs at
this price and it's not intended as a high-end, primary device but as a backup
or for a young child. It's fine for
this. So far at least, I've had no
problems with reliability, it seems robustly made and everything works; I don't
think you can ask for much more from a tablet at this price.
The tablet is nicely packaged in a decent cardboard box. In
it, you get the tablet itself, a USB-to-pin
lead for charging and a micro-USB lead which
can also be used for charging and for data transfer. There is also a good instruction
booklet which will be extremely handy for anyone unfamiliar with Android.
[Switching on for the first time, I got a short sequence of
screens to set date & time, connect to wi-fi (which didn't work) and
sign-in to my iRULU account (which I don't have). If you get these, just skip all of them,
restart and you get the normal Android start-up sequence, which all worked
smoothly for me.]
The tablet is reasonably slim and light, so I find it comfortable
to use. The screen isn't great; the
definition is OK but not brilliant and it is very intolerant of tilting so that
viewing even at a small angle causes significant loss of picture quality. Treated carefully, though, it's perfectly
usable.
The tablet runs Android 4.4.2. It has modest memory capacity: 8GB hard drive
and 512MB RAM. These are adequate for ordinary use and you
can expand the memory with a microSD card up to 32GB (not supplied). The small RAM
does cause some problems – you can't do many things at once. You may well find other limitations if you use
memory-hungry apps or games but for basic use it's pretty reliable. (Note that it doesn't have Bluetooth.)
There are plenty of good things about this tablet:
- Wi-fi connection is easy and solid
- Apps installed quickly and without problems
- Net browsing is OK, if a little slow sometimes
- Video streaming from YouTube etc. is good
- Email is fine
- Music quality is excellent through an external speaker or
headphones, either wired or via Bluetooth.
The built-in speakers are pretty terrible
It also has some poorer aspects:
- the battery life is poor (3 hours max) although it holds
fairly well on standby
- No Bluetooth
- small RAM which limits
some usage
- low quality cameras (2mp rear and 0.3mp front)
Overall, this is very good for what it is: a very basic
tablet with fairly low specs but which works.
If you want something for higher-end use this won't be for you, but as a
backup or first tablet for a young person, for example, I can recommend this.
Amazon page HERE
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