I need an inexpensive tablet, 10" or so, for just a few purposes. What I need it for, I need it to quickly and well, with a minimum of glitches and freezes and crashes, and would prefer not to pay for bells and whistles I will never use. If you help me, I will put you in my will, but be advised that my estate will consist mostly of the tablet.
PS. I am not wedded to big names like Samsung and Lenovo - are Dragon's and Vankyos any good - and nor am I wedded to the idea of a new tablet. Recommendations for a tablet which is, say two or three years old, will be readily and joyfully entertained.
What I need it to do well:
PS. I am not wedded to big names like Samsung and Lenovo - are Dragon's and Vankyos any good - and nor am I wedded to the idea of a new tablet. Recommendations for a tablet which is, say two or three years old, will be readily and joyfully entertained.
What I need it to do well:
- Display very crisp text from webpages, pdf's, Word docs and spreadsheets. I will occasionally make notes on, or change a word or two on, the aforementioned files, but that's about it;
- Facilitate reading the aforementioned text in varying light environments;
- Have good but not great battery life;
- Have a very responsive screen which won't provoke me to use profanity;
- Provide for 32GB of storage, either onboard or via SD card;
- Make good use of whatever fast wifi connections it may happen to be in range of;
- Hear me well when I am using VR;
- Not clutter up my OS and app drawer with oodles of preinstalled apps, or at least allow me to install them;
- Either come with a sturdy cover, or be compatible with a third-party product;
- Give me many years of companionship and affection, with a minimum of repair costs; and
- Not much else, other than light texting, other forms of messaging and chat, and toodling around on Facebook until I get bored or annoyed - which generally happens quickly - and run the very small number of apps required to do the work mentioned above.
- A USB port, or maybe even two, if the second is USB-C.
- Have more video and audio capabilities than I will need to play whatever goofy little 30-second videos I might click on while toodling around on Facebook. I will neither watch Lawrence of Arabia on this tablet nor listen to Mozart's 29th;
- Take pictures. If I ever take a picture with this tablet, I will refund your money, and if I won't ever use one camera, I certainly won't use two or more;
- Connect to the Internet in any way other than wifi;
- Play video games, since I gave up after Donkey Kong, and;
- Look cool.
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