Topic: The Tablet Computing Thread

[Twelfth Man]

I have the original Hudl and you really don't know the Tesco stuff is there unless you accidentally click on the T on the bottom of the screen. Unless this has changed with the Hudl2 I wouldn't let it put you off.

Nice one. I'm sold. Wanted something relatively cheap to take on holiday, rather than lugging around my laptop, this seems to tick all the boxes.

[redgriffin73]

Nice one. I'm sold. Wanted something relatively cheap to take on holiday, rather than lugging around my laptop, this seems to tick all the boxes.

I got mine for £65 with a Tesco card last year and love it, and the Hudl2 looks even better, slimmer, lighter, bigger screen, would love to upgrade but just can't justify it.

[Twelfth Man]

I got mine for £65 with a Tesco card last year and love it, and the Hudl2 looks even better, slimmer, lighter, bigger screen, would love to upgrade but just can't justify it.

Fist impressions, its beautiful to hold, very well made, love the soft plastic cover. Screen seems pretty decent. I purchased it to watch games on stream while on holiday. Had an issue about flash on Android, but the Puffin browser did the trick, so it meets my need. If anyone has clubpoints, its a no-brainer.

[Snail]

Fist impressions, its beautiful to hold, very well made, love the soft plastic cover. Screen seems pretty decent. I purchased it to watch games on stream while on holiday. Had an issue about flash on Android, but the Puffin browser did the trick, so it meets my need. If anyone has clubpoints, its a no-brain

Puffin dealt with Flash fine then? This is what I was worried about.

[Twelfth Man]

Puffin dealt with Flash fine then? This is what I was worried about.

Yep had to pay £2 but the football site I use works fine.

["21C or 70F?" SchizoidWeatherMan!]

Firefox supports flash as well, free and better than Puffin.

Stock android browser is also flash enabled, only thing is that it hasn't been updated in ages(due to chrome becoming tje 'official' browser)

[Twelfth Man]

Firefox supports flash as well, free and better than Puffin.

Stock android browser is also flash enabled, only thing is that it hasn't been updated in ages(due to chrome becoming tje 'official' browser)

Yes but the footy site I bought the tablet for, the Hudl2 after much testing only works on the Puffin browser. My other Android devices (S2) works fine with firefox, stock browser etc. Not sure why the Hudl2 4.2.2 behaves that way, but as long as one browser plays legacy Flash, I'm Ok with it given the price and quality of the tablet.

[clinical]

Want the missus to bring me back an ipad air 2 from Canada, can get the 64gb one over there for £400 after all the taxes they add on. which is £80 less than here. But still don't know if it's worth it. Not a big apple fan either, but it's got good reviews.

[redgriffin73]

Fist impressions, its beautiful to hold, very well made, love the soft plastic cover. Screen seems pretty decent. I purchased it to watch games on stream while on holiday. Had an issue about flash on Android, but the Puffin browser did the trick, so it meets my need. If anyone has clubpoints, its a no-brainer.

Ah, you're tempting me now!

Yep had to pay £2 but the football site I use works fine.

Which footie site are you using?

[Twelfth Man]

Ah, you're tempting me now!

Which footie site are you using?

PM'd you mate, they don't like to advertise.

[redgriffin73]

PM'd you mate, they don't like to advertise.

Thanks.

[Red_Irishman]

Saving for an iPad Air 2 myself. Cant wait to get it. top quality device.

[LadsPen]

Saving for an iPad Air 2 myself. Cant wait to get it. top quality device.

Just a heads up on this one but the back of the ipad air 2 resonates when youre playing any audio whatsoever. Pretty much a given as its so thin but it still surprised me when I got mine.

Other than that (which doesn't really bother me- I almost always wear headphones), its brill. I've gone from the iPad 3 (which was still going great guns so I've given it to our kid) to this and can't get over the difference in pretty much everything. Granted, only 5 days in but even so.

[Snail]

Just picked up my Hudl 2. It really is a gorgeous thing!

[TepidT2O]

Just picked up my Hudl 2. It really is a gorgeous thing!

Rumoured to be the last huddle.

Apparently they lose a fair bit making each one and rely on the user buying telco products on it to make up for it....

[Snail]

Rumoured to be the last huddle.

Apparently they lose a fair bit making each one and rely on the user buying telco products on it to make up for it....

Didn't buy anything else

[TepidT2O]

Didn't buy anything else

i wonder if that's why they might discontinue it...

Don't they have a tesco link on it?  I thinks that's the way they planned to make money.

[Snail]

i wonder if that's why they might discontinue it...

Don't they have a tesco link on it?  I thinks that's the way they planned to make money.

Yeah there is, but you barely notice it.

[Twelfth Man]

Yeah there is, but you barely notice it.

Download the Nova launcher from play store and you won't see the Tesco bloatware.

[Snail]

Download the Nova launcher from play store and you won't see the Tesco bloatware.

Cheers mate!

[redgriffin73]

Download the Nova launcher from play store and you won't see the Tesco bloatware.

Thanks for that tip.

[Snail]

Just picked up my Hudl 2. It really is a gorgeous thing!

Love it so far, it really does feel and look so much more expensive than it actually is. Thanks to the vouchers, it only cost £59!

[rob1408]

My Nexus 9 was delivered yesterday, the performance is stunning, especially the sound quality. Android 5 is a big step forward.  Only downside is Sky Go won't work on Lollipop, apparently they're updating the app, despite them probably having a dev build for months, it still isn't compatible with 5.0.

[plasterered]

My Nexus 9 was delivered yesterday, the performance is stunning, especially the sound quality. Android 5 is a big step forward.  Only downside is Sky Go won't work on Lollipop, apparently they're updating the app, despite them probably having a dev build for months, it still isn't compatible with 5.0.

With the 9 having a aspect ratio of 4.3 or whatever I read that web browsing is better but films have a black band above and below thus making the actual viewing screen more or less than same as the nexus 7

Now I want to know that when watching football stream will this also be the case also on landscape position ?

I want to but a 9 or 10 inch purely based on viewing media on a bigger screen than than a 7inch tablet.

Confused slightly as to why you can't have a full screen view

[BlackandWhitePaul]

Love it so far, it really does feel and look so much more expensive than it actually is. Thanks to the vouchers, it only cost £59!

I got one a few weeks ago and had been saving vouchers up so paid only £40.  It's a cool little thing, I like it a lot.

Ohh, I deleted all the TESCO related stuff off it.  Me bad haha.

[LanceLink!!!!!]

My lads Hudl 1 we got him last Chtistmas has now had two new USB charging ports, common fault apparently, be careful when you plug the charger in.

[Twelfth Man]

My lads Hudl 1 we got him last Chtistmas has now had two new USB charging ports, common fault apparently, be careful when you plug the charger in.

Yeah even the Hudl2 seems a bit flakey. Try not to use Samsung phone leads. Use the one provided.  I noticed that the fit is slightly off and you could end up damaging the port if you force it.

[red mongoose]

I got an iPad Mini 2 a couple of weeks ago. I don't really need it at all, but I was looking to upgrade my ereader from the original Kindle I had, whose background is a bit too gray, in addition to being unable to read in the dark, which will come in handy when I finally take the bus trips to the beach here. I have barely taken it out of the box though, because I am waiting to get a nice leather case for it, something a bit better than that floppy rubbery one that everyone's got.

[Snail]

My lads Hudl 1 we got him last Chtistmas has now had two new USB charging ports, common fault apparently, be careful when you plug the charger in.

My one complaint with the Hudl 2 is this. Shit myself every time I take the charger out. Pretty daft that the port is on the "bottom" of the device as well (some apps only open that way up).

[Snail]

Yeah even the Hudl2 seems a bit flakey. Try not to use Samsung phone leads. Use the one provided.  I noticed that the fit is slightly off and you could end up damaging the port if you force it.

I'm having to use my Samsung one because the one provided broke after three days

[Twelfth Man]

I'm having to use my Samsung one because the one provided broke after three days

For the price yous lot got yours for. I'm not going to feel sorry for you. I don't shop in Tesco so paid full whack...;-) complain and get a new one.

[Smudgester]

My son is getting a Kindle Fire HDX for Christmas. In terms of games, is the Amazon Store really that far behind Google Play store to make rooting a requirement?

[djphal]

On my new tab s 10.5 tethering from my phone

love it, screen is amazing

[LanceLink!!!!!]

Got the lollipop update available for my Sony Z tablet today, always quite apprehensive about updating, sometimes things become unstable.

[red-5times-indian]

With this increasingly blurry lines between tablets and laptops, I'm not quite sure where to put this in but here goes.
I'm planning to to get the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 i7 4 core, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 512 SSD HDD. 12" . I think it looks gorgeous. Any quick thoughts?

[tubby]

Got a Galaxy Tab 4 but can't for the life of me work out how to set Chrome so it opens to a homepage I want on Android.  Is that possible?

[reniformis]

Got a Galaxy Tab 4 but can't for the life of me work out how to set Chrome so it opens to a homepage I want on Android.  Is that possible?

Unfortunately not. The best you can do is to save your homepage as a shortcut on the desktop or wherever and open chrome via that rather than the chrome icon. Even then it'll just be another tab on top of the ones you had open the last time you closed chrome. The inbuilt android browser (called 'internet' on my tab) allows you to do it though, and seems to be sync-ed with the chrome bookmarks if you want to try using that.

["21C or 70F?" SchizoidWeatherMan!]

With this increasingly blurry lines between tablets and laptops, I'm not quite sure where to put this in but here goes.
I'm planning to to get the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 i7 4 core, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 512 SSD HDD. 12" . I think it looks gorgeous. Any quick thoughts?

12 inches is laptop territory. Stretching it calling it a 'tablet'.

Windows based tablets are the best if you do some serious work on your tablet rather than just media consumption. With those specs, it is a full fledged laptop  replacement.

[djphal]

I have noticed that while using the tab s, facbook pictures are all pixelated, as are pictures on news pages?

any ideas

[wz4jc3]

In our house we have a 7", 10" Galaxy Tab 2 for the kids and I have just been given a Kindle Fire. Has anybody else here rooted any of these tablets? Am I correct in thinking rooting the Galaxys should speed them up too? Thanks for any advice.