Originally Posted By: JustinH
Those $50 kindle fires are not what you think.
They are very slow, good for reading but not much more.
I have one sitting in a drawer that has been unused for six months.
Get the ipad, or the samsung tablet.
We bought a quad core insignia tablet for my wife, and it was junk also. Ended up returning it for Samsung Galaxy A, much better.
Yeah, I got the impression that the Insignia's are no-name low end things. Tempting but perhaps just too low end. Was in Best Buy last night, and held a couple of them; but the text is just too blurred to bother. Even if they do have Android 6.0.
iPad is a huge price bump over the Fire. $500 or so vs $90 for the 16GB 8" version. I did hold the 8" version and it's not bad. Text is a bit blurred. Which I don't get, as my iPad Mini has worse resolution (1024x768 vs 1280x800).
Must just be a better display. I didn't look at the $50 7", I figured it was too little (8GB storage). Amazon did up the system RAM to 1.5GB, so it shouldn't be that far behind.
I took a look to see what was on CL. Lots of out of date ones, it seemed--or expensive ones. I'm hard pressed to buy used when $90 will buy new.
Dunno. I do like my new 5.5" phone but it's just a bit too small for using while on the couch in the evening.