Recommend a mid-priced Android tablet

[Helena330]

I agree on the Tab A. I’ve had mine for over two years. It hasn’t had any problems and it hasn’t slowed down.

[TimeWinder]

@Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank

I feel like it’s a bit slow for my use, which is play music and surf at the same time (Spotify & Firefox).

You said you’d already tried some stuff to speed this up, but what about this seems “slow”? Anything more complex than an abacus these days ought to be able to handle both of these things without overly constraining CPU, graphics, etc. – anything on the device itself. If it’s buffering times and frame loss, I’d look to improving the network before I’d replace the tablet just for speed. (Your battery life issues are a much better reason, but I’d hate to have you buy a new tablet just to find out that things are the same as they were with the old one.)

[Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank]

@TimeWinder

You said you’d already tried some stuff to speed this up, but what about this seems “slow”? Anything more complex than an abacus these days ought to be able to handle both of these things without overly constraining CPU, graphics, etc. – anything on the device itself. If it’s buffering times and frame loss, I’d look to improving the network before I’d replace the tablet just for speed. (Your battery life issues are a much better reason, but I’d hate to have you buy a new tablet just to find out that things are the same as they were with the old one.)

To others above, yeah, the Samsung is pretty much my one and only choice lined up right now.

Timewinder, I just don’t enjoy the websurfing experience as much as I’d like. Seems like it takes too long to render pages compared to my pc on the same network. Now, I haven’t been able to directly compare my tablet and my pc surfing speeds since those changes I made to help speed it up, but it does seem slower than I’d like, though better.

I wouldn’t buy a new tablet now to get faster surfing speeds. Don’t know for sure that the best tablet out there would be much faster. However, if I have to buy a new tablet because this one suddenly died etc, I did want to make sure it was faster than my current one, so I don’t get worse performance going forward.

Some websites are horrible on this thing. I wanted to buy some supplies at Walmart and have someone pick them up for me, but the screen updates took forever. I just gave up after two hours. Amazon is pretty slow, but tolerable enough that I’ve placed orders.

[Tim_R.Mortiss]

I thought this might be relevant:

Five New Lenovo Android Tablets

[Jophiel]

@Tim_R.Mortiss

I thought this might be relevant:

Five New Lenovo Android Tablets

Interesting. I noticed Lenovo’s Tab 4 lineup was largely gone from stores so assumed they were launching a new line soon. That E10 is kind of trash but the M10 or P10 might be decent depending on how they get priced.

[Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank]

Thanks for the link. Unfortunately it looks like the good tablets won’t be released soon enough to do me any good. Good to know what’s going on with the Lenovo tablets though.