Good find, Chanchi, this will fly for sure . . .

Can't go wrong at this price, even for a back up cheers chichi :smile:

Cheers OP. Heat Added:)

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The blue 16gb was £39.99 at Argos on the 23rd, 24th and 25th May before it went back to £49.99 on the 26th. It's also confirmed in the thread below.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/amazon-fire-7-16gb-tablet-blue-only-39-99-argos-2453086

£39.99 for 16gb? Can't see any at the price of descriptions stating it was ever that price?
All £49.99?

Nonsense, with a little knowledge it is no problem to run *ANY* apps from the SD (well, I've yet to find one that doesn't work fine from the SD), OK, You normally have to root the device, but I can't think of a single good reason not to root it anyway.
There are several guides over at XDA-Developers, just do a search and use the one you like the sound of best.

I bought the blue 16gb version out of Argos for £39.99. It was choice between that and the 8gb version with 2yr guarantee at JL which was the same price but having an Android phone and knowing how many apps don't work with external storage it seemed more sensible to get the 16gb version.

Well thanks for mentioning "quite often". I appreciate good advice. Thanks

If you are ordering from Argos you may as well wait a day, as they should have their £5 voucher with a £50 spend or £10 voucher with a £100 spend offer on (i'm guessing as they have it on every bank holiday)

Thank you very much.
I cancelled my amazon orders and placed Order with tesco :smiley:

Saved £10 as you said. Many many thanks for the Tip. You are a legend.

Thanks! Just ordered as well! Bargain :smiley:

Some of the 16gb colours are this price in Argos. I have just did a click and collect for the blue one.

Seems like I'm mentioning it quite often but turning your tv into a smart tv with a black nowtv box loaded with the TVplayer app will cover all of your catchup and free view needs over wifi for very little outlay.

http://blog.artesea.co.uk/2016/01/tvplayer-on-roku-or-now-tv.html

My rear shed gets good wifi and I've an 40" old HD tv in there. So with the apps to use Chromecast I can catch up while repairing stuff. Never watch a film end to end (like reading a book cover to cover) so this is ideal. Life story finished.

Appreciated - thanks

ive bought it with prime now £10 off..but came with the old adaptor they are crediting me £12 for x

Everything my gf has installed on her tablet has worked fine so far (YouTube etc) however I remember seeing an article or thread mentioning certain specific apps won't work through a sideloaded playstore. Will try and see if I can find it again for reference.

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Will this cast to Chromecast in another room?

you couldnt understand why this was a good deal "Not sure why everyone thinks this is a great deal", I was just telling you why people thought it was a good deal.

once the play store is sideloaded, is it essentially the same to use for any apps that you install, or do some not work/have restrictions? thanks :smiley:

Are these any good for kids? Watching YouTube on wifi and downloading and watching mpegs? Thanks

That is exactly why I said we can't rewind to the past! I was mainly pointing it out as an equally good deal could come out again if its happened before. You would expect it to do so bearing in mind the technology should now be cheaper to produce 6 months later. I agree its a good tablet for the price, perfectly fits my needs.

Get a £10 refund

Two new codes have gone live today which apply to the Fire tablet

Save £10 when you spend £75 or more on selected Vision and Computing using TDX-9HFJ

Save £20 when you spend £150 or more on selected Vision and Computing using TDX-V4X7

So if you ordered 2 fire tablets and spent over £75 - try livechat and get a further £10 refund

https://www.tescohelp.com/tesco/forms/direct_form.html#

Staff discount and a £3 money off voucher sent to me in the post =£32 for me in store had pink model very happy thanks op

tl;dr
so basically a 7" android tab with pre-installed amazon apps..?

You can't use google playstore natively. You'll have to google how to side-load some unofficial google play store files on to it using a USB cable and a computer. It's not hard, but it's not something a none tech savvy person will find comfortable doing.

Aren't these always £40. E.g. Amazon, John Lewis, etc etc.... last year when i bought it.

What's this tablet like for Skype? video chat etc. front camera any good?

Great little tablet out of the box, but once you root, dump the Amazon rubbish, and install a decent launcher, fantastic deal!

hmmm I will just be using to for Skype and Amazon books. I have Galaxy s2 Tab 8 (My personal tablet for work etc) and Ipad mini 2 (for my 3 year old for all kids apps and youtube etc )

Yeah but most apps can't go on a memory card.

add memory card its expandable memory...

ordered 2 ....

Mainly for Skype and Reading books as i have Amazon prime.....

Has anyone used this for Skype ? is it ok for that ?

I have the original Fire HD 7 that has 16GB built in. I think 8GB for apps would be a real struggle.

This is really god, had the same deal last time plus £10 off prime delivery making it £29.99

Unfortunately had to arrange 3 exchanges as there were problems from black screens, reboots and dead pixels, took almost 4 months to get a proper version, works, great, tempted to put cyanogenmod but not yet

you can even remove the adverts with advice from Xda and Rootjunkie scripts, if you want you can put Google play but as it is the size of 30 apps it does slow the tablet down

Reckon someone at Amazon has never seen the colour magenta before.

Thanks Chanchi.Was after a new tablet as my Hudl 2 is acting up.:smiley:
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I too got a refund, but mine was for £12. I got an email saying I could take a refund or a replacement.
Never did send the charger back;)

My nexus is totally naff compared to one of these, find it odd as the nexus is better in specs, maybe the update to lolipop killed our nexus 2012's.

Paid £18 for mine - well, £30 (Prime Now at xmas)and then £12 refund for charger recall.:smirk: But this is a good deal, too. 7" too small for browsing, I find, so I mainly use it for kindle books and especially for the text to voice function, so I often listen to my books. And is handy for travel, watching movies and quick browsing.
It's an absolute fingerprint magnet, though!
It did have a wobble when the battery suddenly started going down alarmingly, even when not in use. If this happens, you have to do a hard reset, holding off button down for 20-30 seconds. Did the trick and it has been fine since.

forget side loading... root it and install slimrom will turn it in to a full stock android device.

Of course it's a sales device, that's why they market it at a low price, to bring customers to there shop front. This is not a hidden act.

It's the best price now, so this is the best deal. This site works best for current prices not historic.

It's the cheapest we can get this tablet and it's a good tablet for the price, hence it's hot.

1024x600 uhmm, no thank you.

Maybe good for under 7s, if you don't like them.

How does this compare to a 2012 nexus 7...
Which runs like a dog atm

How did you get a refund? I just got sent a new charger!

A moot point as not every app will even let you move it to SD storage. Though it's a bit tragic you actually have to go through any hassle of setting up the play store on there in the first place. There's only one SD this tablet is : an Amazon Sales Device.

great wee tablet this , bought it in the black Friday sales . use it for reading via Kindle app , watching movies on flights and just fast and easy to use . mine came preinstaled with Google play .no issues at all , actually just got a gel case for it delivered this morning of eBay .all good ...buy buy buy .

How bad are these? My last tablet with 1024x600 was absolutely terrible: slow, narrow viewing angles, difficult touch screen, bulky, short battery life etc....

But this one seems kind of half decent for a budget tablet. I would still recommend a used Nook HD+, just for the awesome display, but this one is certainly a bit more up to date.

Any idea if this will run the Canon Camera Connect app?

I would think it's just a matter of side-loading using ES File Explorer

good cheap tablet easy to add play store
got one off prime now for £25 and then got a £18 refund due to a charger recall
so £7 :smiley: had to spend nearly a pound getting a case :smiley:

Unfortunately not.

So she's an imaginary wife, eh?

No HDMI to connect to TV, right?

Nice tablet for watchin videos on the go from the sd card

These were £34.99 on Black Friday. Those in a prime now area could use the £10 code to get for £24.99

In Manchester we didn't get prime now until a couple of weeks later, by then it was £39.99 so I got it for £29.99 with the £10 code.

Not sure why everyone thinks this is a great deal, appreciate we can't rewind back to last year but 6 months on the technology is the same, the price is more expensive and everyone is voting hot.

http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Fire-Display-Wi-Fi-GB-Black/product/B00Y3TM6CO?context=browse

Really can't complain for the money but 800pixels across would be much better, these are 600 and you can tell.

I have one of these and they are ok for day to day stuff movies, quick games, surfing the web etc. The screen is not the best out there on the market and with no HD playback, its just OK. Fits inside coat pockets and as its slighty thicker than most tablets it can take a certain level of battering and still work. You will need to buy a micro SD card as the 8gb is not enough. 7inch is just about right if your out and about but for long journeys I would say no. The bloatware esp the ad`s they have placed is annoying but you can remove this, quick google search shows how to do this. The O/S took me some time getting used to as its quite different to the android o/s I have been using. Amazon have mapped everything into tabs i.e. one for music, movies etc and no central scree, so you have to work your way around this and make on of the tabs where you place your main apps. It is quick for what it is and play`s most games ok not tried the big heavy ones.

Please could anyone tell me if this'll run the showbox app (apk)
Thanks in advance

I'm in Manchester.. M24 area if that helps. They only have the black version none of the multi colours.

Not available on my prime now. I had the voucher code ready too !

Excellent. Just ordered via prime now for delivery within the next 2 hours. Had a £5 promo code too which they gave me for making a mistake the last time I ordered. U was holding off buying this until I could get it for the same time it was around Christmas.

Lovely


Thanks guys

Amazon have price matched these

the fire kids ones are 79.99 too.

I think for the 16gb and free case/warranty it may be worth £30

But other than that this is great deal

i think so and you can still set it as a kids tablet..my two have them and i installed play store in 5 minutes and i am so crap at tech!

About them being small..my kids have ipads and have never mentioned these feeling small to them..they love them.
Re apps not playing when no wifi my son plays spotify and games on holiday when out of wifi reach so i guess so?

They have cards in to expand memory and download movies for on flights etc :smiley: i get the cases off ebay full covers with magnetic folding covers (iykwim?) and so cheap and so far have protected them and theyve had them a good while now x

You can side load kodi , mobdro etc

It's the same tablet, we bought similar cases of Ebay. You should get a free 30 day trial for Amazon prime if you haven't used it before

Anybody know if they're this price in store?

I was thinking this instead of the kids version

Other than the case/ 2 year warranty and 1 year freetime is this the same thing?

We have two of these instead of the kids version, they are good for the money and perfect for young kids as a first tablet. Amazon are sneaky with subscribing you to things without you knowing such as fire for kids. We complained and got refunds

I have 3 in the household, great tablets but not all apps will work from a SD card so Beware. Heat though :man:

Ah, thanks :smiley:

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Is this not included in the clubcard boost thing?

Can't go wrong at this price, even for a back up cheers chichi :smile:

Anyone who has one of these can they confirm that the gaming apps can be used out and about when not connected to wifi like other tablets as I had read on a review that they needed to be connected to wifi for the apps to work ?

We have two of these. One for me and one for our five year old. can't fault them at all.

You can sideload the playstore onto these using a laptop/PC via usb. Info/links are in previous fire tablet threads (I'm just walking out the door at the mo so can't search and link to them myself)

Hi can you use the playstore on this tablet

These take upto 128gb micro sd cards to expand storage

8gb? that is going to fill up very quick

Bought this for my OH when it was on offer last time...TBH I find it just too small to use comfortably, I feel it's gotta be 10" for a tablet!

...good price though if you're from Lilliput :wink:

Brilliant find op, heat added

Cheers OP. Heat Added:)

Good find. Heat

Nice find chanchi, heat added :smiley:

Thanks for the reminder. Purchased along with the 3 year protection plan :smiley:

Dont forget the 4 years insurance for £32 :stuck_out_tongue: nearly as much as the machine cost obvious bargain :smile:

Good find, Chanchi, this will fly for sure . . .

Choice of tablet colours - clickable links

Black
Blue
Magenta