We bought the Fire tablet from amazon last prime day. It is better than expected, with coupons/vouchers and discount we paid 75,- $US if I remember correctly.
Been using the Samsung Tab S everyday for a few years now. Bought 3 of them for the family, and all three are still going strong. Firmly believe, you get what you pay for.
The S2 was a great tablet and still sold here. But, after 4 years, since the S2, samsung tablet prices can’t keep going through the roof, they realize that and they are bringing out 3 new tablets with reasonable prices.
Top of the list is the S5e. About the same performance as the S3 but far cheaper.
For me, its about real estate and battery life. Surfing and reading books\magazines. If i want work done, i invested in a blazing desk top.
I’m singing Samsung praises because they earned it.
Same here. I have the smaller 8.4” variant of the Tab S and it is still running great. My extended family has ~ 20 Samsung tablets in various models, no-one has had any problems.
Budget ones, hmm. Definitely you can’t call Samsung as a budget.
I have 2 Chinese tablets, Chuwi Hi10 Plus (4 x 64 Win10 & Android), and Xiaomi pad 4 plus 4 x 128 Android). One cost me 150$, another 310$. In general no issues with both of them. Chuwi is very weak on receiving wi-fi signal, no much memory allocated for android and not so pretty looking as Xiaomi.
Budget with 2Gb ram, must be for specific task. I think all you need to look there is processor and a battery.
And no matter from where you get ’em, consider ’em disposable.
Okay, so you get one and it’s defective/scratched/used/DOA. Ship it back (for about as much as you paid for it), and you’ll get back a refurb which also may or may not work.
“Customer service” for phones, tablets, laptops, etc., is pretty much nonexistent. You pays yer money and you takes yer chances.
At least getting it from a local big-box store, you can go back and harangue the staff/manager ’til you get a replacement.
I can’t even remember the model no of my Samsung. OOOld.
Pre S2 and a couple b4 it. Never missed a beat.
Use it rather than a Laptop nowadays when we go O’Sea.
Linked with phone and local sim.
Gives contact home from anywhere plus mails.
We go O\S every other yr now.
used to be every yr, for a coupla 3 months.
What I’m saying is. You get what you pay for.
more with electronics than most things.
Reliability and efficiency cost.
Samsung have a fair price for a fair. PROVEN long term reliability product.
2 tablets. ALL phones. TV’s and Modems. for last 20 yrs or more.
Can you say that about any others.
Chinese … I wouldn’t trust them (yet) for reliability,
regardless of any super output reviews.
BUDGET… Really. starts when you reach the point of decent quality.
reliability and performance. Regardlesss of the price point.
Anything UNDER that.
IS FALSE ECONOMY.
You WILL regret. sooner than later.
During my longer stay in Hospital i bought a Samsung Tab A 10.5 cheap. And i am very happy with it. Surfing, watching movies, reading PDF magazines. . . a huge + is the big battery. But 32GB flash is not up to date. 64GB would have been ok. Now a SanDisk Extreme 400GB solved the issue.