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I can't believe she's finally dead yep guess I'll need a new one then

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but my budget for a tablet's only $300 I'd like to spend less if I can don't

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worry Mom I'm here for you thank

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you and it's a good thing I am because the budget tablet Market is a veritable

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Jungle full of Predators there's scummy manufacturers selling last decade's tech

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at this decade's pricing there's devices loaded up with adwar and spyware

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masquerading as deals and sure iPads are

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really great but sadly iPads aren't

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$300 or are they we scoured the bargain

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bins to find the best deals and we've come up with five tablets that won't

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waste your money or your time and we found some big surprises for one thing

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budget tablet came pin Amazon is nowhere on our list this time around and for

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now let's kick things off with our sub $100 contender Walmart's ONN 10.1in

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tablet the last time we looked at a Walmart tablet we called it the E-Waste

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special they've upgraded their creaky plastic and plastic build with metal and

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glass it not only feels significantly more premium than their older tablet it

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even feels I'd say as good as Samsung's

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entrance in this Roundup which is twice as expensive but while the build quality

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is excellent for the price point the screen resolution is just 12 1280 by 800

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which is pretty low for this size it

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also isn't very bright and it's not that pretty wait where did you guys get my

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grade four report card making matters worse the ONN has only 3 gigs of RAM

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which slows down multitasking to the point where even updating apps in the

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background can render this tablet sluggish for minutes at a time the ONN

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also lacks a headphone jack though it does come with a slot for expandable

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storage which you'll probably want to use is because this thing only comes

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with 32 gigs of storage 10 of which are consumed by a surprisingly bloat-free

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Android 14 based operating system that

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is a refreshing chain from the ad-ridden experience of most inexpensive tablets

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which is probably the biggest argument for this thing for all of its flaws it's

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just $98 so at the very least we have

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got to give Walmart a most improved award even if it doesn't score an

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outright recommendation if you know that your work load will be light and your

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eyes aren't too judgmental or you want something that you can throw in the

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backseat to shut the kids up on a road trip then this could be a perfect

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solution just be aware that Walmart doesn't seem to offer any promise of

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future software updates and the same goes for our next pick the oldo cube

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iPlay 50 Pro Mini we decided to look at

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this one after seeing a surprising amount of enthusiasm for it on Reddit

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and you know what it is pretty slick at

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least on paper basically every aspect of it is significantly improved over our

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$100 tablet making it better at multitasking gaming well everything

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however while the internals might wow the performance Improvement really is

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very noticeable here the externals are a

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little less impressive the construction while metal lacks refinement with parts

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that aren't flush even the screen we actually measured as a little offc

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Center there's no Biometrics of any kind even if that is true of most budget

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tablets and the single speaker is truly

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thankfully though you can at least plug some headphones in with the 3 and2 mm

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Jack and there are other things to like it comes with a combo SD and SIM card

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slot and the screen while offc Center isn't half bad and includes a screen

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protector it does suffer a fair bit when viewed off AIS but it's higher density

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than our last tablet making it much better for reading and watching and is a

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a huge upgrade overall over the ONN that is assuming you care about more than

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just raw size like many unknown budget Brands I wouldn't expect much by the way

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of customer support device updates or accessories we're running Android 13

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with a year old security patch which is a yikes but that's kind of par for the

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course and we were very pleased to find that unlike other budget tablets we had

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no issues with widevine support what's widevine you ask it's a form of digital

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Rights Management that's used by most major streaming services it's what makes

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it so that when you try to screen record Netflix it shows up black anyway the

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part that matters is that we were only considering devices with widevine level

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one that's the level that will allow you to stream in HD rather than being stuck

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at 480p on Netflix moving on if software support matters more than Best Hardware

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for your buck you might want to take a look at our next Contender now I'm going

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to be real with you guys Samsung's tablet lineup is large and confusing

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ranging from excellent and expensive to complete dog and they

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seem to go out of their way to make it darn near impossible to figure out which

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is which for example there's the Galaxy Tab S6 light and you might think hm okay

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that must be a tablet version of the Galaxy S6 phone that came out over 9

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years ago but you'd be wrong the S6 tab

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actually came out 4 years after the S6 phone then a year after that it was cut

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down a little bit to become the tab S6 light but the story is hardly over that

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tablet was refreshed as the tab S6 Light

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2 years after that and then it got refreshed again this year and is still

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called the tab S6 light but enough about that it's the A9 plus that we're looking

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at today specifically the 8 gig RAM version which we chose in hopes of

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getting a better multitasking experience like the competitors we've seen so far

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the A9 plus has a metal construction but unlike those it's lighter weight which

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is kind of refreshing a refreshing feeling that Fades once you start using

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the thing see in spite of its name brand qualcom Snapdragon processor it performs

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no better than the Aldo Cube and even manages to chug when just swiping

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between pages on the home screen I think this has got to be a software issue I

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mean it has a high refresh rate 90 HZ display that looks butter smooth when

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you're doing other things but now that we're spending over $200 I don't really

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care whether it's the hardware or the software I'm a lot less willing to make

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excuses for any kinds of issues maybe it's the infamous Samsung bloat I mean

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even if we exclude the 16 Superfluous Samsung apps we got six random apps from

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third parties that were pre-loaded on this thing look Samsung I invited you

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into my home I didn't say that you could bring all your friends don't get me

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wrong it's a pretty decent tablet once you remove that crap I mean the display

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is kind of ghosty but I would describe it as adequately sufficient the

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lightweight build really is easier to hold for an extended Peri period than

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our cheaper devices and the cameras are the best we've seen yet same goes for

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speakers it includes micro SD expansion and it's even slated to get four years

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of software updates however it's still clear that Samsung has cut some Corners

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in order to hit this price point there's no real biometric authentication no Inc

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Screen Digitizer for S Pen stylus support no support for decks with a

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monitor thanks to the USB 2 charging

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port also like our other budget options today it supports only Wi-Fi 5 but if

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you can get over the Samsung isms you've got a pretty well-priced tablet that

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will satisfy pretty much anyone who's using the device for primarily content

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consumption and you also get a robust accessory collection that could even

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help you get a little bit of work done speaking of work done check out the BBL

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on this Lenovo like damn girl she's a

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thick boy with a large 11 1/2 in display

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eight speakers and a built-in kickstand

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the Lenovo tab plus is positioned as a media consumption monster and I got to

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say it kind of delivers the screen while

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not the brightest has great contrast and handles motion well not to mention gives

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plenty of room to multitask and the speakers wow do they ever get loud and

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not just loud they're even good

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they're probably the best ones in our Roundup which spoiler alert does include

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an iPad let's put a pin in that for now though LTT Store.com and come back to

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the tab plus the all metal housing contributes to a very premium feel but

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also results in a heavy tablet that can be a bit unwieldy to single hand the

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integrated kickstand does help with this a lot because you can just put it down

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and okay this is really cool it opens up

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all the way to to nearly 180° allowing for a nice drawing or note-taking angle

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with the sold separately stylus it also comes with ample onboard storage and RAM

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and expandable storage too and with their media Focus they also included a

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headphone jack but you knew there was going to be a butt the processor which

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it shares with the much cheaper Aldo cube is a bit of a downer especially

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because of the way that it holds back an otherwise well-rounded desktop mode my

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my biggest issue though is not the processor it's the bloatware Lenovo

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aggressively tries to trick you into installing unneeded games and apps while

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you're setting up the device and even if you cleverly navigate their dark pattern

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obstacle course you will still find that the device has automatically dumped a

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bunch of garbage on your home screen I'm talking 17 additional apps plus an apps

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for you folder on the home screen where you can download even more apps that you

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never asked for it's confusing and honestly disrespectful but with that

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said the worst offenders can be easily removed and Lenovo is promising two

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Android version updates and four years of security updates a pretty compelling

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value proposition at the usual street price of under $300 and sometimes as low

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as$ 250 let's just hope they don't use those updates to cram even more ads into

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the user experience now it's time for the big

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surprise at the top of our price range we've got the iPad 10th gen which unlike

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last time is brand new rather than recertified and is also get this pretty

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good it's not without flaws I mean let

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he who has never removed a headphone jack throw the first

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stone it's got stupid apple pencil support a stupid Folio keyboard stupid

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slow usb2 speeds and a stupid lack of

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expandable storage but now that the cost

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of Entry has dropped to 300 bucks even

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below that in some recent sales a lot can be forgiven making the iPad maybe

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the easiest recommendation on the whole list I mean sure the so in here is four

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years old but unlike the rest of them at least at some point it was a flagship

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tier s so which makes it more than enough for all but the most hardcore of

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tablet Computing and there's the screen it's still an LCD but it is a darn fine

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LCD it's a nice LCD panel and while

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Apple doesn't provide details on product support for the iPad they have an

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excellent track record of os and security updates with most iPads getting

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anywhere from 6 years or more of full OS

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upgrade support and thanks to Apple's Battery Replacement Service there's a

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solid chance that you will actually get that kind of lifespan out of the

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hardware on the subject of battery life while no tablet here struggled with

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every one of them managing what I would consider to be all day battery life the

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Wallmart tablet surprisingly beat everyone else by a decent margin in our

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tests speaking of margins if you're in the market for a cheap tablet now is

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probably a pretty good time to pull the trigger at least if you're an American

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there is a strong possibility that tariffs are coming and you the consumer

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will be the one paying the price one study showed that overseas produced

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tablets so all of them could go up in

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price by $200 on average I don't know

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that this will actually happen and I doubt that it would hit this price point

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quite that hard but what I'm getting at is cheap tablets might not be getting

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cheaper so if you need one now might be a good time the question is which one

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for the money the ONN tablet is pretty hard to beat for the money then my next

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best contenders have got to be the tab plus and the iPad 10th gen whichever one

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you can get for cheaper if you're techsavvy I do think the Aldo Cube I

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play 50 mini pro offers phenomenal value for what it is but it's not the kind of

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thing that I would recommend for a normie relative like these ones are and

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on the subject of being techsavvy this is by no means an exhaustive list the

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budget sector is a thickle beast with sales and price drops part swaps and

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more so let us know in the comments what options you techsavvy folks recommend

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