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Buying A Budget Tablet
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 Palace Passion  Bromley, South London 16 Nov 20 4.35pm |
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Anyone know if Vankyo tablets are any good? I was looking at possibly getting the Vankyo Matrix Pad S20...
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| Badger11 Beckenham 16 Nov 20 5.10pm |
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Amazon tablets are cheap but they do not run on Android so if you need Google Play Store it's not for you.
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| Palace Passion Bromley, South London 16 Nov 20 6.02pm |
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Yes I need Google play store
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| martin2412 Living The Dream 16 Nov 20 7.06pm |
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I would recommend the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1" . I've had mine for about 3 years and it does everything I need it to. Has the play store and Microsoft package installed, and is quite fast. Other than that I'm not really techy!!
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| Harpo Oxfordshire 16 Nov 20 11.18pm |
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Originally posted by martin2412
I would recommend the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1" . I've had mine for about 3 years and it does everything I need it to. Has the play store and Microsoft package installed, and is quite fast. Other than that I'm not really techy!!
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| heff75 london 17 Nov 20 12.43am |
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My advice is buy a cheap amazon tablet..black Friday is only around the corner and you can download Google play..just youtube it. Pretty easy
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| Palace Passion Bromley, South London 17 Nov 20 8.18am |
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Originally posted by heff75
My advice is buy a cheap amazon tablet..black Friday is only around the corner and you can download Google play..just youtube it. Pretty easy You can't get Google play on amazon fire tablets sadly...
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| Badger11 Beckenham 17 Nov 20 8.49am |
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Originally posted by Palace Passion
You can't get Google play on amazon fire tablets sadly... I was a bit quick the other day with that comment. Amazon software is a subset of android so with some minor tinkering will work. It is not preinstalled but you can download it although you would need to have some basic IT knowledge. Just google can I install Google play store on my amazon tablet and it will tell you how. The other point I would make is Amazon does have its own store so depending on which apps you need they may already be on there. In terms of money they are always doing a deal so you can pick up a cheap one especially black Friday.
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| JohnB 17 Nov 20 9.49am |
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First question is what are you wanting to use the tablet for? Secondly, you can load google play store on an Amazon Fire and other devices, you just have to load it from an APK. Takes about 5-10 minutes. Only caveat is that a small percentage of the apps you download from there will be temperamental when updates are done to the tablet OS. Edited by JohnB (17 Nov 2020 9.51am)
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| Badger11 Beckenham 17 Nov 20 10.07am |
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Originally posted by JohnB
First question is what are you wanting to use the tablet for? Secondly, you can load google play store on an Amazon Fire and other devices, you just have to load it from an APK. Takes about 5-10 minutes. Only caveat is that a small percentage of the apps you download from there will be temperamental when updates are done to the tablet OS. Edited by JohnB (17 Nov 2020 9.51am) Thank you better put than me.
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| CrazyBadger Ware 17 Nov 20 10.22am |
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Originally posted by Badger11
I was a bit quick the other day with that comment. Amazon software is a subset of android so with some minor tinkering will work. It is not preinstalled but you can download it although you would need to have some basic IT knowledge. Just google can I install Google play store on my amazon tablet and it will tell you how. The other point I would make is Amazon does have its own store so depending on which apps you need they may already be on there. In terms of money they are always doing a deal so you can pick up a cheap one especially black Friday.
I have added Google Play Store successfully to my fire HD, and not that difficult.
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| Palace Passion Bromley, South London 17 Nov 20 12.34pm |
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Mainly want it for watching TV and Movies when I'm away fishing (will connect to my phones Internet using mobile hotspot) I need it for storing photos, reading amazon kindle, the odd game, social media etc..
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