Cheap Android tablet?

[Colleen27]

Does anyone have one of the inexpensive Polaroid or Coby or comparable Android tablets? If so, how do you like it? If not, why did you decide to go with something more expensive?

I'm looking for inexpensive Android tablet to the mix, partly for DH who has recently been traveling for work and would like to take movies and a few simple games (Angry Birds and such) along with him and partly for DD4 to have for her learning apps on flights/long drives. I really don't want a Nexus 7 because I'd like to have expandable memory and the ability to keep a "husband" SD card and a "daughter" SD card to swap out based on who will be using it. But I've been looking at some of the $100-ish 7" tablets and it seems like they'd do everything we need, but I'm a little concerned that there's some "too good to be true" factor that I'm missing.

 

[mrssmith06]

I bought my husband an "Craig" 7" Android tablet at CVS for $79 on Black Friday.
It is a pretty good tablet, does what he needs but there have been some small frustrations with it. I would love to buy him something better but we couldn't swing anything more expensive right now. Overall though, it was a good buy.

 

[wdwnomad]

You need to careful with some of those tablets. Many of them are loaded with an old version of the Android operating system. Sometimes the apps you want aren't compatible with that operating system.

 

[Colleen27]

You need to careful with some of those tablets. Many of them are loaded with an old version of the Android operating system. Sometimes the apps you want aren't compatible with that operating system.

I am looking at the tech specs, both in terms of OS version and actual processor & memory, and the ones I'm considering seem adequate on that count - Android 4.0 and a faster processor than my good-enough Android phone (>=1ghz).

 

[ksloane]

Yea. Be careful. I'm sure there are some decent ones out there, but I've had 3 people bring some of the "cheap" ones to me to help them setup and they are very frustrating, and I wouldn't want to own one.

Not sure what your budget is, but Best Buy had (not sure if they still do) Samsung Galaxy, 8gb tabs on sale for like $179. Saw them there last week. Haven't checked in a few days.

 

[punkin]

I just bought the Polaroid for my niece. I set it up for her and used it for a couple of days just to make sure everything is OK. It is fairly fast and works just fine. No, it's not an ipad but it runs all the apps she will need. I am wrapping it and sending it out today.

 

[Colleen27]

Yea. Be careful. I'm sure there are some decent ones out there, but I've had 3 people bring some of the "cheap" ones to me to help them setup and they are very frustrating, and I wouldn't want to own one.

Not sure what your budget is, but Best Buy had (not sure if they still do) Samsung Galaxy, 8gb tabs on sale for like $179. Saw them there last week. Haven't checked in a few days.

I really don't want to spend that much, considering that this is a tablet for a technophobe 40-something and a preschooler. I'd like to stick to right around $100 - if I were going to spend $180+ I'd just order a refurbished iPod Touch for them or get a Nook HD for myself and then hand down my Nook Color.

 

[maggiew]

You could root your Nook Color to be an Android tablet.

Maggie

 

[4HppyCamprs]

You could root your Nook Color to be an Android tablet.

Maggie

How does that work? Can you run flash if the nook is rooted?

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[maggiew]

How does that work? Can you run flash if the nook is rooted?

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I can't say exactly since my husband did the rooting and my daughter uses the Nook Color.

But I found this link with a Google search that makes it seem like it runs flash.

http://socialtimes.com/enable-a-rooted-nook-color-to-watch-video-from-hulu_b63403

Maggie