which Tablet to choose

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davejk

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Hi all, I am looking to buy a couple of tablets for me and my wife but not sure what to get, so would love your opinions on what you think.

I would basically need one for surfing the web playing around with apps, games email etc doing my accounts with excel and watching the occasional movie also viewing photos.

For my wife its more of a sweetener so i can get one as she has the laptop most of the time, but she has her own business so an office suit of sorts, playing downloaded you tube videos and reading books and web surfing.

Im not to keen on i pads as apple are far to restricting with what you can do, Having sd card slots would be a bonus as space on these tablets seems a bit tight, also a usb so i can link my phone to it.
As for a budget I want the best for us both so lets just hear the opinions first and worry about cost later :-))
Thanks for any replies,
Dave.
 
The new Surface RT tablets from Microsoft might actually be your best bet if you don't want an iPad, and a lot of Android tables are moving away from microSD slots, so don't count on one if you're thinking about buying Android.
 
The Surface tablets start at $499, I pretty much ignore any tablet that costs more than $300 because when the price gets that high, I'd personally rather have a netbook or laptop.

Pretty much any tablet out there can do the things you stated you want to do.

I have a Google Nexus 7 and really like it. For me, the 7" sized tablets are the perfect combination of screen size vs portability vs usability. The $199 price makes the N7 the best tablet value out there, IMO.

The N7 has a screen resolution of 1280x800 (highest of all 7" tablets, much better than the 1024x768 of the iPad mini that was announced yesterday). It also has a quad core processor and runs Android 4.1.2 (Jelly Bean).

The N7 doesn't have a microSD card slot and I have the 8G model. You might think that is very restricting but there are many options for expanding storage. For times when I have wifi, I can stream videos from DropBox and other cloud storage sites, or view pictures, or even access spreadsheets or documents. For times when I don't have wifi, I can use a $4 OTG cable to connect a USB thumb drive or an SD card to access my files.

I haven't found 8G with no built-in storage expansion to be particularly restrictive but, if you feel it is, the Nexus 7 is also available in 16G and a 32G model is coming out.

The lower end tablets such as the N7 and Kindle Fire HD don't have a microSD card for storage expansion because it does keep the cost down but I think the main impetus is because Google and Amazon want you to buy and stream video or buy books or buy apps from them. It's kind of like the razor/razor blade sales model. Sell the razor cheap but make the profit on the blades.
 
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The iPad mini specs pale in comparison to a Nexus 7. Slower processor and lower screen resolution yet is priced at least $130 more. That's a heck of a premium to pay to be able to say "I have an iPad". I'm sure it will be a runaway success regardless.
 
I would say for you a Nexus 7 and for your wife an Asus TF300, both run a stock Android but the TF300 you can buy a keyboard dock from Asus which will push up to 15 hrs of battery life, have sd card slot reader and a full usb port and not to mention the tablet has a mini hdmi port. Plus I only recommend tablets that run the nvidia cpu.
 
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