no you don't buying your grandparents a
bad tablet is borderline elder abuse so
when Anthony told us his dad needed a new tablet I did what any tech nerd
would do and said just get him an iPad it's too expensive it has to be less
than 250 dollars that's a little tougher the budget tablet Market is an absolute
Minefield of low spec and AD infested
junk not wanting Anthony's dad to suffer I did the next thing that I know how to
do I paid someone else to go and find the best tablet for 250 or less just
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we ended up with five budget tablets some new some refurbished some
surprisingly good and some surprisingly bad regardless of our conclusions we're
gonna have all of them linked down below if you think one of them might be right
for you let's start with the 98 on 10.1 inch tablet or as I call it the
E-Waste special Walmart you truly spared
every expense here for starters this is the only tablet in our Roundup that
actually has a plastic screen the two megapixel shooter takes photos like a
2006 flip phone and the selfie camera hey you look so pale have you been
eating honestly I think it'll make your grandmother cry when she sees you on a
video call my boy it makes weird noises when you hold it like it
kind of creaks sometimes but as Linux
has shown us garbage Hardware can be Redeemed by good software and this is
the only tablet of the bunch that runs the very lightweight Android go OS
unfortunately it still chugs even just
swiping through the home pages you also can't split screen two apps and while it
does come with an interesting feature called Google entertainment space that
provides recommendations for things to watch read listen to or play on your
tablet they well maybe it's better to just show you
this movie for instance is clearly mislabeled if you've listened to the
they're just movies podcast episode on licorice pizza I think you'll know this
ain't it and we could play games like twerk race 3D
oh my goodness there's broccoli and burgers and
so I avoid broccoli gotta size up your Badonkadonk
I don't understand I got a new skin that
would be horrible even if it was running smoothly thankfully it runs the one
thing that matters lttstore.com couch Ripper pillows whack
it restock oh and we've got a new feature where you can Mouse over to see
the size of the model is wearing super cool of course many people Buy tablets
purely for watching videos on the go so how's the media experience
all I'll say is your two-year-old probably won't care but I think
Anthony's dad deserves better thankfully a 50 jump in price brings us to the
significantly better Amazon Fire HD 10.
Amazon's tablets have long dominated the budget segment and for good reason this
one is reasonably rugged despite its plastic chassis the full HD display
manages to avoid actively harming the content the speakers sound good up to
about 50 volume
and the soc can handle some light multitasking especially if you stick to
the lightweight integrated apps the big gotcha the penis rocket billionaires
ecosystem Amazon uses fire OS a fork of
Android and they absolutely hate Google so that means you're stuck with the
Amazon app store rather than the Play Store and it's got about one seventh the
number of apps not only that but Google apps
uh-uh not even YouTube or Gmail only web
rapper versions are available and it's even missing popular games like engine
impact and Pokemon go the thing is to help these tablets punch above their
price class Amazon subsidizes the hardware by cutting out Google's 30 cut
on app revenue and replacing it with their own and they also push the user
hard to subscribe to their services you can install the Google Play Store and
enable Google services by downloading the relevant apks and for the sake of
testing we did do that but it is a major inconvenience especially if you're not
that tech savvy and especially or if you're moving from an older Android
tablet like Anthony's dad stepping up to the 200 price range then and not being
impressed by the big manufacturers we found this promising little bundle
called the kingpad K10 Pro
Sutton vast King the pro moniker might be a little optimistic but I guess vast
King's Point is that they mean business with the keyboard folio and active
stylus all included you will be business Chic on the cheap with this entire
package costing just forty dollars more than Apple's Standalone smart keyboard
and shockingly this keyboard is actually
better than the Apple One the included stylus though is pretty mediocre it has
pressure sensitivity but no angle detection though it does come with an
easily replaceable quadrupole battery and it Glides nicely across the screen
without bumps or grinding speaking of which twerk race 3D runs like a dream on
this bad boy the unisoc t618 chipset proves to be
adequately capable it's actually the same chip Samsung is using in their
brand new A8 series tablets and the full HD display is sharp but only manages dim
washed out colors compared to our other competitors
and the speakers are disappointingly tinny also to save money the devs have
skipped out on wide Vine DRM certification meaning that you won't be
able to stream in HD from services like Netflix and battery life is pretty
underwhelming so media consumption ain't
great and the kingpad's productivity aspirations get hamstrung somewhat by
its Bare Bones Android 10 operating system at least it can open two apps
simultaneously though but compared to the multitasking capabilities of tablets
from the likes of Samsung and Apple it falls well short now beyond the 200 Mark
we are getting dangerously near the edge of what we can safely call Budget but oh
what's this my God it's iPad the gray
the kleenex of tablets and at just 230
dollars Apple makes up 58 of the
worldwide tablet market and that's for good reason this right here is a
refurbished sixth generation unit from 2018 supporting Apple's A10 SOC and what
is there for me to say even as a PC Android kind of guy I recognize that the
iPad is just plain better than the competition but hold on a second is this
four-year-old 32 Gigabyte model the right deal at 230 dollars only you can
answer that our other honorable mention is the base model 9th gen iPad for just
a hundred dollars more it's gonna have software support for much longer it's
got better well everything and if it
holds its value nearly as well as the 6th gen model did you should be able to
flip it for a decent price when you feel like upgrading also without expandable
storage this 32 gigs is going to fill up pretty fast every other tablet we looked
at has expandable storage but Apple's too good for that finally at the top of
our budget we have the Galaxy Tab S6 light which while it is listed at 279.99
on Samsung's website has been going for 250 dollars pretty frequently these days
at retailers like Amazon and you can probably expect prices to drop a bit
more as Samsung rolls out its new 8 series tablet lineup bundled with
Samsung's excellent S Pen you get the best screen out of the bunch the best
speakers second best software and the best build quality out of the lot and
with a 13 hour battery a number it very nearly achieved in our battery test this
tablet is a great deal at 250 bucks
yes the device is coming on two years old at this point and Samsung doesn't
have the best track record for software support but this is such a good piece of
Hardware it's at least worth giving a second live to some things to note
though is that even though this is a pricier tablet Samsung has long
struggled with GPU performance on their exynos chips and that shows here the
gaming performance on this thing doesn't keep up with even the four-year-old iPad
and in geekbench it was only slightly better than the kingpad
so there you go Anthony's dad that's our rundown which one will you buy
realistically there's no way you were going to take the ONN thing right not at
all yeah okay so which one do you think
is the best fit for you uh for me I would have to settle for the Samsung S6
Lite well I've got a little surprise for you we are actually going to just send
this one to you you don't have to worry about the budget for it at all it's
yours sir oh sweet you gave us Anthony
so I feel like it's the least we can do that's very nice of you thank you very
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