Following on from the JL deal this could be more worth it if you dont have a JL near you to collect for free or having it delivered from there is free delivery when spending £50+ so for an extra 4p Currys can have it delivered free to you.
Amazon Fire 7" Tablet 8gb £34.99/ 16gb £44.99 Various colours ~ Currys (Free Delivery)
Worst tablet ever made. Very slow and old components from 3 yrs ago
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Pineapples101
8 Feb 171#1
Great price!
kingpete
8 Feb 17#2
Reading through the spec on Tesco site for these fire models, there is a £10 charge for removing ADs. Regardless of who sell these fire tablets, I think this £10 is standard. I never owned a fire tablet so far though. Just thought of sharing.
Tesco price is £34 for 7" 8GB Fire and £44 for 7" 16GB models
exup to kingpete
9 Feb 171#44
I bought one of these at Christmas and the ads aren't intrusive, so I wouldn't be concerned about removing them. The only ads I get are on the lock screen, which is easily ignored; most are for apps or Amazon Prime. You can also install Google Play store on these tablets to get the apps not in the Amazon app store. It's a good cheap tablet IMHO.
farhana97
8 Feb 171#3
omg I just bought this the day before yesterday at full price!!
manishvaja to farhana97
8 Feb 171#4
you can ask customer service for a refund on difference :smiley:
farhana97
8 Feb 17#5
I thought they don't give out refunds for price drops anymore? (As of May 2016..)
vraxxos
8 Feb 171#6
Can you re-flash these with something like Cyanogen? Can you install Google Play?
CyanogenMod has recently been discontinued on this tablet as it has a locked bootloader so is stuck at android 5.1 - which support for was dropped with the switchover to LineageOS. The last release is still available at XDA Developers, as is Fire Nexus, which is an AOSP based Android Lollipop 5.1 rom.
Root isn't available for the latest FireOS release, so if these come with 5.3.2.1 you will be stuck with fireos for a while - tablets purchased from currys/argos have generally been sat around for a while though and usually come with an older version preinstalled.
They are on the lock screen, so pretty annoying every time you come to use the tablet - easily removed though, either on the original fireos or by flashing a clean android rom.
vtec
8 Feb 17#8
already posted.
lemoncurd
8 Feb 172#9
I bought from Argos and it has Amazon adverts. Got onto Amazon customer service chat, who said that Fires with special deals are subject to adverts and it would be £10 to remove them. I said that it was disgusting that they were forcing adverts on my 6yr old child and I asked them to tell me where in the Argos catalogue/website or on the box it said that there will be adverts. They agreed that it wasn't stated anywhere and immediately removed the adverts without charge. I then put Google Play and Nova Launcher on it :-)
RealDealSeeker to lemoncurd
9 Feb 17#36
Result.
Alternative: signup for free kids unlimited trial which explicitly states ad free. Complain that device still serving ads. CS take off the ads.
ebble
8 Feb 171#10
I have not owned a tablet yet and want to buy a cheap one.
These Amazon adverts that people mention - how intrusive are they?
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Amazon Fire 7" Tablet 8gb £34.99/ 16gb £44.99 Various colours ~ Currys (Free Delivery)
8GB Currently available in Blue/Magenta/Tangerine
16GB Currently available in Blue & Black
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Amazon Fire Tablet 8gb
Amazon Fire Tablet 16gb
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Tesco price is £34 for 7" 8GB Fire and £44 for 7" 16GB models
Root isn't available for the latest FireOS release, so if these come with 5.3.2.1 you will be stuck with fireos for a while - tablets purchased from currys/argos have generally been sat around for a while though and usually come with an older version preinstalled.
They are on the lock screen, so pretty annoying every time you come to use the tablet - easily removed though, either on the original fireos or by flashing a clean android rom.
Alternative: signup for free kids unlimited trial which explicitly states ad free. Complain that device still serving ads. CS take off the ads.
These Amazon adverts that people mention - how intrusive are they?