To be honest this confusion is caused by Samsung themselves. There are acually 2 versions of the TAB A. The one with the snapdragon processor is the older version and actually has a 9.7' screen. Where as the new version released in summer 2016 is a Octa-core model and a 10.1' screen.

The one posted by the OP is the newer version and is worth the money in my opinion. It is a great piece of kit.

you know how to spot a deal :laughing:

Ordered. Cheers. Heat added.

ordered thank you

A toss up between this and Z3, this won for me. The basket has it in. Thank

Hot thanks

Thanks, ordered!

Is this a good deal or will it go cheaper? people are ordering on the comments but the deal is cold:S

Looks good reading reviews online. Was waiting for a deal on an iPad Air 2 but might get this & save myself a few quid.

Finally! Thank OP was waiting for this. Why is this getting cold anyway?

Could be. For the price and that spec this deal is awesome.

Good find. Ordered.

is the galaxy tab A better than the Galaxy E?
£159.99 for A at Curry's
£99.99 for E at Tesco
so presuming yes???

much appreciated rollzy.
ordered thank you :smiley:

This is excellent but will see if JL respond before diving in.

Hot hot! Ordered, thanks OP. Been waiting for this to drop in price as it's arguably a better tablet than the Lenovo Tab 2 A10-70 (was recently £140 at Tesco, now up to £170 everywhere).

JL matched over the phone :sunglasses:

Great price - I have one already. Very fast, crisp display and amazing battery life. You cant go wrong at this price.

I have one of these for about 4 month... it is the 2016 model with a great display, fast AC wifi and good processor. The SD card is expandable to about 200GB. Great buy for £159.00

I could do with one of these. As my nvidia shield tablet k1 tablet has poor battery life and drains very quickly when playing games on It. I am so tempted to order one now.

It's was £129 in asda a while ago

Does that have screen mirroring/smart view from the pull down tab list?

Or go into store with some evidence.

Thanks for the heads up. Just reserved two for the kids xmas presents.

Well they did on this occasion after they looked it up and then checked with whoever. I have the email confirmation to prove it. It looks like they pushed it through at my nearest store as the receipt says "Set up on 23 November 2016 at John Lewis Welwyn".

Of course it may depend on which CS person picks up the phone or perhaps I was delightfully charming enough to get it. I'd suggest the former. :wink:

Cheers! I have not seen it advertised either. I was going to buy the Asus zenpad as it was cheaper. This one will have more thing and is better specced. Bargain for me so thanks again.

TAKE MY POST HERE WITH A PINCH OF SALT - I SUSPECT JOHN LEWIS ARE WRONG!
Be careful, I remember nearly getting caught out by a PCW ipod touch deal a few years ago, ordering only to discover that it was a very cutdown model of the normal one.

Why do I bring this up? Well John Lewis have just refused a price match.
"The item with John Lewis is Qualcomm Snapdragon and the Currys item is Exynos 7870, therefore they are not identical items."

And they're not wrong.

Looking at the PC World business website, they have a slightly different version of this tablet, calling it Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2016)
https://www.pcworldbusiness.co.uk/catalogue/item/P242393P

in addition to this one (without the 2016 suffix and described as having the Samsung processor).
https://www.pcworldbusiness.co.uk/catalogue/item/N168322W?from=category&heat=title

Looks to me as if PCW are pulling a fast one again.

I have no idea where JL have got their info from regarding the processor, it's definitely the Exynos 7870.

A number of retailers have it listed as (2016), since it wasn't called the Tab A2, thereby avoiding any confusion with the previous 9.7" model.

Checked and it was posted for £119 I hukd so it must have been £119 at some point to but I've only seen it myself for £129

Vendors are selling both the old and new model simultaneousl which is confusing matters. In this instance JL are wrong and should price match. The 2016 10.1" model is the Exynos CPU and preferable to the Snapdragon.

I don't think you are right... After your comment, I had a search around for a variant with a Qualcomm chip but cannot find anything. Actually, the JohnLewis site doesn't even show which processor is in the tablet, even the link you sent doesn't back up what you are saying. I think you just had a crappy CS agent from JL.

If you search the mfr numbers from the links you have sent, you will find SM-T580NZWABTU (Qualcomm processor?) refers to the white model and SM-T580NZKABTU (Exynos processor) refers to the black model.

Plus the reviews are the same for both models! They do their best to confuse matters tho.

Thanks, I'm inclined to agree with you! I think JL are mistaking it for last year's 9.7 inch model, which is a snapdragon.

I've asked them to reconsider.

I've also done a bit of digging, the second one's processor - Samsung Exynos 7870 was only released February 2016. I'm probably gonna give it a go. Cheers OP.

JL have just replied to my email and price matched. Looks like a good deal to me, I hope my son likes it.

Hot.....like you!

Just reserved a white one from my local store. And will collect It tomorrow thanks OP :smiley:

Thanks op

Thanks OP

Had a good play with mine tonight. Its really snappy, no lag at all navigating through apps. You get the odd stuttering animation but I think that's app secific. Once annoying thins is watching YouTube videos at 1080p and you get borders at the top and bottom :/ Its really off putting at first but then you get used to it. Also the GPU is pretty weak imo, tried World of Tanks Blitz and it was only playable at the low graphics settings.

However I didn't buy it for gaming so I'm happy with it. Turn on within seconds and the screen is sharp and bright.

:smile:
waiting for this to come down!

I'm so tempted by this.
I have been waiting on a price drop on lenovo tab a10 70 as I don't want to pay more than £150 but reading about this I think its a better tablet

What's the advantage of buying from John Lewis as opposed to Currys?

1) It's not Currys
2) Better CS and returns policy.

JL have now price matched this online. Curry's have matched this 2 year guarantee.

Don't forget Quidco £10 back on £50 spend.

I've been looking for a good 10" tablet running at least Marshmallow with least 2GB+ ram and 1080p+ (this looks to be better at 16:10) screen. This fits the bill nicely!

Heat added.

Have tried JL but got the email that they are very busy and will take more than 24hours to get back to me - me thinks they are going to see out Black Friday with delays

JL now OOS

Just tested the tablet on display at Currys. And It's amazing and also picked mine up this morning. Going to charged It up and set It up later on when fully charged :smiley:

think I'll go through quidco and just buy it.
how easy is it to cancel/send back to currys if it goes cheaper elsewhere tomorrow?

it won't

Just picked up a White and black one! Thanks OP!

Can anyone reccomend a good tempered glass screen cover and case for this tablet?

Thanks ordered from Curry's in the end when saw they also gave 2 year warranty and JL was out of stock. Surprised this isn't hotter? Now on the look out for a good case - any ideas?

Might of found my Nexus 7 replacement :smiley: Thanks

To be honest this confusion is caused by Samsung themselves. There are acually 2 versions of the TAB A. The one with the snapdragon processor is the older version and actually has a 9.7' screen. Where as the new version released in summer 2016 is a Octa-core model and a 10.1' screen.

The one posted by the OP is the newer version and is worth the money in my opinion. It is a great piece of kit.

how would this match up to an iPad air (first gen)???

Does this come with the spen?

Thanks - that's dad's chrimbo pressie sorted!

What a find rollzy keep em coming hot stuff

​wow what a present must really love your dad

This seems to be a good case https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Galaxy-tab-10-1-Case/dp/B01FJ8ACX2 Gonna order one soon.

Nope

After doing some research they way you can tell the difference between the new and old versions of the 10 inch tablet is the screen resolution. The new model has full HD and comes with an Oct core processor ( 8 - cores).

Can someone recommend me somewhere else to keep an eye for this tablet as I believe it will go lower then 159.99 but not by much.

I'm an Apple guy and had planned to get him an iPad but they are quite expensive. This will be a good upgrade over his Hudl.

fair play you have had a right result then​

Perhaps Argos or Tesco but I'd be a little surprised if it went lower than this.

Specifically the new model is 1920x1200 (WUXGA):
http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/mobile-devices/tablets/galaxy-tab-a/SM-T580NZKABTU

If anyone works for a company that uses an employee benefits scheme like edenred, don't forget to use it.

Currys e-giftcard give you 7% off, so order £155 (or £160, multiples of £5) for £144.15, couple that with quidco £10 bonus gives a total of £138.15 for this.
The delivery of the e-giftcard is instant too.

not letting me go pass Billing address:|

Ordered ...... thanks OP.

Im tempted but I was really looking got the 4G version.... Hmmmm do I realy need 4G.....

Cheers OP, I'm in, stuff Black Friday, Tan Thursday's r' us!

Nexus 7 replacement!

Bought this about two months ago for £20 more. Really is a nice tablet.

thanks for the tip.
how long does it take to receive eGift card email please? gone 15 minutes still waiting!

I received mine 5 seconds after i paid.

did you get the edenred confirmation and worldpay emails? mine came the same time as those

Glad a few people found this deal useful ! About time I found one after all the deals I.ve benefited from on here over the years.

Hey guys,

Does this have much over the Tab 3? Thinking it might be time for an upgrade :smile:

yeap. got it. ordered. £155 worth of egift card for £144.15. paid £4 with paypal.
£11.33 quidco. £137 ish final cost. thanks op and mug51:D

2 nectar points for evey £1 spent online when ordering this, so worth 320 NPs also

I have this case... For the price point it is very good and fits the tablet perfectly. There isn't much in terms of options but it works generally well and seems to have worn well for the past few months.

Just for reference, I bought this tablet last week from Tesco for £208 which was the cheapest I could find it for, so this is hot. I decided to cancel my order in the end though because I decided 16GB local storage simply isn't enough... I bought a very fast 128GB Micro SDXC card intending to expand the internal storage using the 'Adoptable Storage' option in Android, but I read it was a risky and unreliable solution. I bought a Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 in the end, very happy with it.

Been wanting to upgrade for a while, as have had a samsung 8.9 for 4/5 years, so have reserved this for tomorrow , but have seen a refurb kindle fire 10.1 on Amazon for £134, which is the better....

You should be for twice the price



This

Can anyone confirm if this can be used with an OTG lead, converting the micro USB to a full-size USB for use with memory sticks etc?

Excellent find have some heat . Almost bought this for RRP a few weeks ago, glad I didn't, ordered.

Cheers

thanks rollzy, collected mine tonight!

I have this tab got it when it came out in june this year,i payed £225 was worth it..

sharp graphics,smooth and good sound id recommend it

just in case its of any use to anyone when you buy this tab in the "my galaxy" app/section you can get a 3 month sky movies pass on now tv app or now tv box for £5 if you set up a new account and redeem it by midnight on 30th of November
and
you have the tv player app pre installed that has normal tv channels and 30 premium channels you get a "exclusive free 3 months free trial" when you set up an account .think that has to be redeemed by 31st December this year .

Boom! Ordered. On way. £10 Quidco. Thanks op...

My mum has a hudl 2 and I was thinking of getting her an iPad mini 2 as and upgrade for Christmas but then considered her favourite games are on android. She only really plays games like bingo, candy crush etc on it. Would this be a good upgrade for rather than a iPad? Also, any ideas if you can run games off a memory card with this please?

How are you getting £10 Quidco? Didn't that expire at 6pm?

Ordered for my mum, to replace her Hudl 2. great spot

I've now ordered an iPad mini 2 32gb for £189 and this for £159. Which would be better to keep for my mum to play games on? She only plays basic games. Still can't work out if you can play games from a memory card on this and not sure which of the two has better battery life? Any ideas please?

Was waiting for a deal on Sony Z4 but this will do for a third of the price.

Quidco says 8.8% on all tablet sales - don't know if this applies to R&C, I paid online and paid £3.95 for next day home delivery

Bought this last year for £139 and didn't even realise how good value it was. Very capable tab, only minor complaint is resolution, but I'm really not that bothered by it. It's a lot faster than my LG G3.

Different model Lee, this only came out in June 2016 Linky

Ordered before 6!

​looks like you were right, everywhere else has dropped to £169 :smile:

For the older 9.6 version (quad core, 1gb). This is the new release. (octa core, 2gb)

Nice. Ordered. Many thanks OP

yes they do... did price match a 250 pound ite for me.. basically if they have time they'll check the competitor website whilst you are on the phone with them so do give it atry.. quite quick

does the screen on this tab match samsung phone screen in terms of quality?

Very tempted especially with work discount.

oh, and quidco is down. How do you get 10% quidco bonus?

Well reserved at Livingston store yesterday afternoon. Went to collect this morning and they could not find my reservation - they printed off the paperwork but could not find the tablet. Called up the stock room and they had no more in stock. They actually had 4 behind the counter but they were reserved for other people. I asked when they were reserved and was told this morning. I asked for one of those given I had reserved the previous day and it was supposed to be kept until the of business today and they refused. The best they said they could do was to phone other stores for stock! Very poor by Currys!
Luckily my local Argos have them in stock, albeit a tenner more. I won't be giving Currys any more of my business this festive shopping period!

Wait for quidco to come back up or use the mobile app (if it's working).

I can get an evoucher via work for 8% discount but will wait for when Quidco is back up.

As annoying as it is you're still getting great vfm. I clicked a Samsung Black Friday email this morning and saw it for sale priced at £219.99 :laughing:

WOW this is a great tablet for the price picked mine up last night, Fantastic screen quality for an LCD panel and the battery is amazing, snappy with no lag so far :smiley: Not all is good tho the speakers are located at the bottom so if you have big hands they will get covered and also not the best sound quality, the GPU is the worst part will only play simple low end games as it scores less than half the score on 3dmark then my old 2 years old lenovo S8-50 tab :disappointed: do not buy this for gaming but for everything else its a winner. overall very happy with my purchase HOT.

I've not seen it mentioned so far, but TCB have 12.1% back today (ends midnight) all all tablets excluding the iPad.

looks like the better option then considering Quidco has been down all day!

Only thing I dont like about TCB is a lot of the time I have to raise a support ticket as my cashback either doesnt get tracked or wrong amount. Plus a lot of their cashback cant be taken out as amazon vouchers!

Yeah I agree, I prefer Quidco as well. But with it being down and only 1%, TCB does seem the better option.

For good tracking, always use a second browser that's used for nothing else. I use Chrome on a daily basis, but always use IE / Edge with no plugins. I clear all their cookies, close, relaunch it, login and purchase.
It does take an extra minute or so, but it always seems to track fine. One of the main problems with using your normal browser is that it's often littered with cookies from all over the place, which messes up the tracking.

I'm almost certain that TCB wasnt showing that when I clicked through them and bought this tablet this morning.
Have they just added it at Midday perhaps?
Also, both home delivery and click & collect are both showing as only 1.1%, so not sure what other form of purchase would qualify for the 12.1% ?

No idea, but this is what I see at the moment:


Picking it up later so will see :innocent:

Good advice about second browser which I also currently follow :smiley:

No longer available on-line - any chance of linking topcashback in-store?

Yes I see the same thing now, but I'm certain it would of jumped out at me if it was there this morning.
It's now out of stock for home delivery anyway, coincidence :smirk:
Incidentally my purchase hasn't tracked yet, so if it doesn't at all, I will try and put in a claim for the 12.1% :laughing:

Just seen the TCB rate. Does the 12% apply only to Plus members?

So it is mate! Thanks for that haha. If I didn't already have the older one I'd snap this one up in a heartbeat.

Just ordered for collection at my local Currys. But, I didnt get an option to enter my evouchers! Im hoping they will be accepted in store.

Our rewards system works a bit different. Have to buy evouchers in £25 denominations so I bought £175 worth for £161. But I went through TCB, and through the Currys order page and selected to Collect in Store, but got no option to pay ! I am hoping I can use the vouchers in store later when I collect!

Thanks! Ordered via Topcashback and collected today from Stratford Westfield branch. They still had them on display in store, as did the branch of John Lewis there, for the same price. I doubt they'll have them instock for too long though. Great deal.

So, quick recap: this is definitely going to give me the best value for money/spec at this present moment in time?

I'm so close to trying a Chinese tab but I'm worried I'd live to regret it :smirk:

Just picked one up now, great deal, cheers :wink:

finally tracked one down for home delivery on the pcworld site rather than curryspcworld. sadly TCB isnt as good.

cant see why you cant use in store.
my tablet delivered today! that was super fast. delivered within less than 17 hours of ordering...wow. it is fantastic tablet.

My one from JL just turned up. :sunglasses:

Initial impressions are good, all very responsive. Feels solid but not too heavy. Screen very nice, colours decent. Haven't done a bleed/pixel test yet but can't see any obvious issues. Bloatware is bare minimum you'd expect and even that can be deleted. Useful Microsoft apps, 10 and a bit GB free overall.

Won't root it yet, I usually wait a few weeks just in case of a problem.

i wonder if its worth putting claim in with Quidco for matching cash back with TCB

Im going to order a dock, has it got a standard micro USB?

Yup.

Yes OOS for home delivery so I wonder if TCB tracks at 12% is using click and collect ?

Am in currys now and wondering whether to bother if TCB doesn't track lol

I'm planning on rooting mine. But I don't want to trip the Knox and loose the warranty etc. Can that be avoided?

any pointer for case/screen protectors?

TBH I'm not up to date whether there's a workaround for that.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01H3C4WNI/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_sEhoyb8QR0Y7C

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01IBHEXHO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_RHhoyb0XT8FFV

£3 discount when purchased together. I've ordered both, if quality isn't good enough then back they go

There's a link to one on Amazon on page two of this thread. I've ordered that one

Just got my via click and collect at currys. Hopefully TCB will track. Nothing on T&Cs to say it won't so fingers crossed

@need4speed2010

A quick look around seems to suggest once it's tripped it's tripped. All depends if the retailer notices and/or cares. The small amount of anecdotal evidence I've found regarding JL is probably not. Reflash to stock and keep quiet. Very grey area it seems. I flashed my Note 8.0 some years back when Knox was first introduced but I'm pretty certain I waited some time to see if there were any issues before doing so.

thanks. will have a look.

This. Bit hesistant to buy without cashback but its still a good deal so...not sure :S

I believe you can still return it :smiley:

Let's see if my TCB tracks or not . I won't be opening it for a few days

The first update of system/google apps chewed up 1/2 Gb. So now got only 9.4Gb to play with. Shame they couldn't have squeezed 32Gb in but I guess they need a number of differentiators to the S2.

I'd only root it for a stable Nougat ROM

I'd normally for Greenify, AdAway, Titanium Backup Pro etc. Not so much an issue as this is more of a media device but a decent ad-blocker is a must whatever.

Yes

You can't go wrong with samsung screens especially at this price

Yeah screen is pretty decent, any light bleed/leakage is minimised to small areas top and bottom. Even then unless you like retina bursting brightness you'd be hard pushed to notice in normal light. Currently I've got the brightness set somewhere between 10 and 15% in reasonable lamp lighting and it's perfectly fine for reading/watching.

Back in stock in JL if your Currys store dosen't have stock... obviously no cashback but still a good deal

Does that mean the black tablet is newest with the better processor per post no. 39 on page 1?

Has 12% top cash back ended?

Has anyone seen a good deal on the smaller galaxy tabs please? :smiley:

yes but still getting 8.8% quidco

Also at JL now for the same price and 2 year warranty.
This is listed as having 2 years with the manufacturer, but dealing with JL is so much easier than Currys / Samsung. Not sure if the potential TCB is worth it over JL now.

Edit - Have ordered from JL. I'd forgot about the last time I went into Currys/PC World and tried to buy a laptop. They tried to convince me they only had one with a 'recovery USB' available, at a cost of £30 more than listed on the website, see: https://conversation.which.co.uk/technology/currys-pc-world-set-up-service-usb-knowhow-35-laptop/

Bought another for a family member as an Xmas present since they were impressed with it.

ordered one this morning and just received an email saying it wont be delivered within the set out timescales but no indication of when. might just cancel and order at JL and have to leave quidco

​i ordered on thur it got sent around 4pm, email confirmation said it would arrive Wednesday as I live in Scottish Highlands but arrived first thing this morning. Haven't had chance to get a shot as iv been out all day but very happy :smile:

I'm in Scotland too and also would've had one to play about with but she wanted to go shopping didn't she, the ten minutes morphed into 2 hours and on the return I had a lovely red card behind the door instead. It won't be till Monday now, damn you Sabbath.

My turn for shopping, 2 minutes it'll take, bin liners, gaffa tape and a chainsaw, sorted! "Hun, you got a minute in the kitchen" Bzzzzzzzzzz :smile:

I ordered mine yesterday afternoon and they haven't emailed anything about delivery yet.
I hate currys and went against my better judgment ordering

How are people getting these for delivery? Whenever I check they're available in store only

I couldnt on the currys site but it available on pcworld site. I wish Id waited till the next day now when John Luwis restocked.

I'm wondering if there were many others like me who were let down by Currys on this one? Ordered on 26th for delivery to store to collect on 28th. Took my money, no further contact from them - then when I finally got through to them today gave some BS excuse, which can be paraphrased as losing control of their stock and they would only process a refund. Given it's high profile advertising of this deal, it's a real **** take.

I know it's thrown around a lot, but it's going to be a while before I give Currys the benefit of the doubt again.

I got let down on a reserve and collection even though they had stock behind the counter. Not for the first time either - I think they get away with it because they are the biggest name of the high street. Got nothing positive from customer services either.

I purchased for home delivery on friday. was emailed on Sat that they'd be in touch as they might not meet the agreed delivery timescales but still nothing! Very poor. Anyone else in the same position?

mine arrived on Tuesday ordered Friday afternoon.
I still hate currys tho!

Gone up

Does anyone knows where I can get one at this price. Should really have got one.

finally got a dispatch notification!

Surprised this didn't get more heat, would have purchased one had i see this!

I've used it quite a bit since the purchase and overall I'm fairly happy with it, only real neg I'm finding annoying is the sound, quite low and not the greatest but that aside its a thumbs up.

Is anyone buying this for the quoted £159? I'm seeing £229 quoted everywhere, but the time on recent comments is "1 min ago"...?

No just mods haven't expired it. Last comment time is showing 1 month 5 days ago for me.

It's showing '1 mn ago' not '1 min ago'.

Was £179 in store on Tuesday

Best I've found the past few days is £209 on Amazon. I'll wait...