Quad Core CPU - 4 x 1.33GHz - Turbo up to 4 x 1.83GHz
Multi-Touch Screen
WiFi
Blueetoth
Micro HDMI
Micro USB
Micro SD Support
Front & Rear Cameras
Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Office Mobile
I think this was already listed here and the deal has expired, but it looks that it is on sale again.
I bought two of these myself, one for a 6 year old and one for my mum and so far so good. There was a lot of talking about 1GB RAM being not enough to handle Windows 10, but we have not had any issues with them after 2 weeks of use.
Obviously they are not as fast as my PC, but they can easily handle web-browsing, watching movies, playing simple games etc. so what else do you want from a £29.99 product?
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Andy247 to Jenn101
7 Feb 1710#2
On that note, what are the "top end" 1GB units you have, I have £30 burning a hole in my pocket and would happily take you up on your offer.
Jenn101
7 Feb 179#1
1GB of ram is just poor for todays apps etc, I've had and used many other tablets that are 1GB, I stopped using mine a year ago when they were impossible to use, anything I've used since with 1GB is a nightmare, and my units are kept to a bare minimum and cleaned on a reg basis, the problem is - the lack of memory and every more memory hungry apps, plus background system crap that's impossible to get rid of... If someone offered me £30 each for the stash of 1GB top end units I have I'd bite their hands off, so I certainly wouldn't buy nor recommend buying a "refurb" low end tablet for £30, in comparison, if you rely on a car to get you to work and back, this is a donkey... so don't waste £30.
Krinkle
7 Feb 179#3
A lot of peeps would want a tab just to surf the net...this would appear fine for that. It ain't always about apps :smirk:
lemongrab to Jenn101
7 Feb 178#15
OMG...Change the record. We all know it's not going to set the world on fire or run 8 VMs at once and it's not as powerful as high end laptop etc etc. It's fine for basic stuff and it's £30. Move on
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Jenn101
7 Feb 179#1
1GB of ram is just poor for todays apps etc, I've had and used many other tablets that are 1GB, I stopped using mine a year ago when they were impossible to use, anything I've used since with 1GB is a nightmare, and my units are kept to a bare minimum and cleaned on a reg basis, the problem is - the lack of memory and every more memory hungry apps, plus background system crap that's impossible to get rid of... If someone offered me £30 each for the stash of 1GB top end units I have I'd bite their hands off, so I certainly wouldn't buy nor recommend buying a "refurb" low end tablet for £30, in comparison, if you rely on a car to get you to work and back, this is a donkey... so don't waste £30.
Andy247 to Jenn101
7 Feb 1710#2
On that note, what are the "top end" 1GB units you have, I have £30 burning a hole in my pocket and would happily take you up on your offer.
Dubplated to Jenn101
7 Feb 174#4
It's only £30 I think this is a bargain for someone who only has basic needs like web browser email etc 1gb would be fine
lemongrab to Jenn101
7 Feb 178#15
OMG...Change the record. We all know it's not going to set the world on fire or run 8 VMs at once and it's not as powerful as high end laptop etc etc. It's fine for basic stuff and it's £30. Move on
MoreBeer77 to Jenn101
7 Feb 17#19
I can see more than a few people going to work on their "Ass's" tomorrow. Like buying a hot air balloon with a tealite heat source... Going nowhere fast.
mboarder to Jenn101
9 Feb 171#39
Shutup nobody cares , What are you going to do with more than 1gb Ram on a tablet? A tablet is not a good alternative to a desktop computer or laptop , The screen is far too small to do any kind of serious work on it . A tablet works fine with 1gb for most games and media except maybe the next gen games optimized for tegra chips , Most games work absolutely fine as devs have taken into account the majority of users across the world with standard specs rather than the minority on higher end devices, Why would they limit their own games to a small audience. I've got a quad core 1.0gb device with 1gb ram and I've played most games absolutely fine including games like titan quest and ridge racer , Infact I've played on a dual core 1.6gb tablet which again had no issues with performance .
Krinkle
7 Feb 179#3
A lot of peeps would want a tab just to surf the net...this would appear fine for that. It ain't always about apps :smirk:
mrew42
7 Feb 17#5
Heat - good find
popoyaya
7 Feb 173#6
Got one for my 6yo nephew and he's happily playing angry birds, roblox, minecraft etc and youtubing on it. 1gb is fine.
shug119
7 Feb 17#7
Cant complain for the money, I'm after a replacement for my Samsung galaxy tab 2 10", still good nick but a bit slow, any recommendations ? not top end.
plewis00 to shug119
7 Feb 174#18
I think we have learned on HUKD that people most definitely can (and will) complain for the money!
FrugalFergal
7 Feb 17#8
Some people expect too much for too little. This is fine for kids to watch cartoons go on facebook or play games on a car trip.
spannerzone
7 Feb 171#9
Hmmm I decided to not bother posting this deal a couple weeks ago for fear of all the terrible cold voting I thought it would get..... you never know how a deal will pan out here :smile:
Godspeed to spannerzone
7 Feb 171#12
Have a consolation 'like' anyway... :smile:
acarden
7 Feb 17#10
Thanks for posting. For thirty quid will give it a go, if not it will be a good looking paperweight
blueoctober
7 Feb 17#11
still loads of stock left. 10+
carsick77
7 Feb 171#13
Windows 10 on a 16gb rom would be a struggle, nevermind the 1gb ram.
My 32gb tablets had to be formatted to install the anniversary updates as it requires a few 100mb's extra space (I only had Chrome installed extra) and even now I'm using just over 16gb storage.
rtbsghgfh
7 Feb 17#14
Couple of questions.. how does this compare to the cheap amazon fire tablet (which I do find horrifically slow).. and how does windows treat sd memory - can you install apps to that?
reddit
7 Feb 17#16
You could probably replace Windows with Android X86 for a faster operation.
UKPokemonMaster
7 Feb 17#17
I actually run chrome in a linx tablet which has been upgraded to Windows 20. nightmare running chrome and actually a nightmare opening anything on there.
nadzmnv
7 Feb 17#20
Bought :smiley:
supermann
7 Feb 17#21
To be honest it's a shame there's not some other OS you could put on this that would have access to lots of apps and use a lot less resources than Android.
I mean I'm sure there's some flavour of Linux that could do just that but nothing I know of that could work on a device like this.
captainbeaky to supermann
8 Feb 171#33
You might just be better off buying a different tablet if you don't want to use Windows. The Amazon Fire 7 is currently £35 new.
geolykos to supermann
8 Feb 17#37
Android IS a version of Linux...embedded Linux to be exact. It's designed to be lighter. It's not Android that makes the devices "heavy" it's the UIs of the individual companies.
MrHot to supermann
9 Feb 17#38
If its a common processor (the atom is), then its just down to drivers.
The problem with tablets are the locked boot loaders, imagine of PCs were like this! (actually, some are getting that way).
foes4you
7 Feb 17#22
I have dual boot 7 and 10 on an old netbook with 1Gb no problems, never clean it, no AV.
works fine - running opera beta on vpn.
popoyaya to foes4you
8 Feb 17#23
It's more fun bareback :laughing:
matth9999
8 Feb 17#24
Hot for the price, but the spec is painful - 16GB will need careful management or the ability to update will soon be lost - this is potentially more of a pain than the 1GB RAM .... I installed Win10 in 1GB on an old P4 and it wasn't too awful - possibly helped by the fact that I connected a SSD for the test!
The 16GB flash probably isn't as quick as a decent SSD, since it's probably only a single channel controller, but still way faster than HDD.
Tempted to get one and pair with a spare external HDD to make a low power consumption server.
plewis00 to matth9999
8 Feb 17#25
It's not an SSD, it's eMMC which is probably worse but fine for the purposes intended. To be fair, 16GB storage is more restrictive than the 1GB RAM IMO.
KopCity to matth9999
8 Feb 17#27
painful for what? to go on Google? Depends what people want
bazio16 to matth9999
8 Feb 171#29
Heat added ordered for a holiday trip abroad. Cheap and cheerful.
KopCity
8 Feb 17#26
Does this do same job as android tablets? OK for browsing? speed wise ok?
wenx
8 Feb 17#28
A good coffee mat.
vardx
8 Feb 17#30
Is there an app I could install on this to use it as a remote for my htpc, or to control kodi?
captainbeaky to vardx
8 Feb 171#31
You could always use the Kodi web interface to control your Kodi installation from a web browser on your tablet.
At this price you buy it as a disposable tablet for checking your emails or occasional browsing for recipes in the kitchen or use in other hazardous environments;-) Voted hot
vardx
8 Feb 17#34
Thanks for that. I was hoping there might be a Windows universal app in the works, with similar functionality to the Android version.
I wonder if we might be able to install the upcoming Windows Cloud OS on this? It looks like Windows RT 2.0, but I'm curious to try it out.
supermann
8 Feb 17#35
Aye. To be honest though I have no need for either tablet, infaxt I have a similar ons sittting in a drawer.
This may be cheap but I honestly beleive it's overpriced. These things are almost junk now, I reckon Zoostorm know this and are just trying to shift old stock and cut thsir losses. If no one buys them they'll probably just bin thsm I expect.
Don't get me wrong, they have value to us techies and maybe granny ahk only uses a web browser to check emails and the bbc website but to retailers this thing is too old to havs much value.
s24adm
8 Feb 171#36
I bought this exact tablet a few years ago at ASDA and I've since upgraded it to Windows 10 (via usb stick). I have Steam running on it and a 128GB micro-sd card in it for media/steam games. The battery on it is brilliant, easily get as much hours on this as my ipad mini. Well worth £30 in my opinion. Just be aware 16gb = about 3-4gb of free space with windows so you'll need a micro-sd card and you can set any downloads and documents to default save to sd-card in windows 10 easily. I have it in an iPad mini keyboard case and it's like a tiny laptop.
The only gripe I have is the screen size is not great for touch on windows, really needs 8" minimum but with a keyboard case it helps a LOT.
foneman2
10 Feb 17#40
Received mine today and it checks out just fine for a £30 tablet !
Thanks for posting
Anyone found a good case that fits it ?
phil36
10 Feb 17#41
I got mine today... it wont charge so it lasted like an hour out of the box and now I have a brick =[
ColG
11 Feb 17#42
Got mine yesterday - couple of dead pixels, and functionally the touch-screen isnt great but other than that its not bad - managed to reinstall windows 10 anniversary edition on it which makes it that little bit more usable.
scrabble123
12 Feb 17#43
Purchased 3 of these, 1 was dead on arrival(just a red flashing light), 1 was at 60% charge and wouldn't go up (despite being plugged in for about 5 hours), the last one has a faulty headphone jack.
All in all though if it didn't have a faulty headphone jack I would have kept it as it seems a pretty capable tablet, streams videos and can play many games like Roblox and minecraft.
Also if you are buying things from eBay as a multi purchase and return 1 of them it makes it difficult to then arrange a return for the next one, ended up having to ring eBay to get the return sorted for the next 2 as I noticed the faults at different times!
phil36 to scrabble123
12 Feb 17#44
I haven't even got a response on my request to return my brick, did you get any reply from the seller?
scrabble123
12 Feb 17#45
Yeah, they replied straight away, raise a return case through eBay, if they don't respond you'll have buyer protection.
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Quad Core CPU - 4 x 1.33GHz - Turbo up to 4 x 1.83GHz
Multi-Touch Screen
WiFi
Blueetoth
Micro HDMI
Micro USB
Micro SD Support
Front & Rear Cameras
Microsoft Windows 10 Home
Office Mobile
I think this was already listed here and the deal has expired, but it looks that it is on sale again.
I bought two of these myself, one for a 6 year old and one for my mum and so far so good. There was a lot of talking about 1GB RAM being not enough to handle Windows 10, but we have not had any issues with them after 2 weeks of use.
Obviously they are not as fast as my PC, but they can easily handle web-browsing, watching movies, playing simple games etc. so what else do you want from a £29.99 product?
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My 32gb tablets had to be formatted to install the anniversary updates as it requires a few 100mb's extra space (I only had Chrome installed extra) and even now I'm using just over 16gb storage.
I mean I'm sure there's some flavour of Linux that could do just that but nothing I know of that could work on a device like this.
The problem with tablets are the locked boot loaders, imagine of PCs were like this! (actually, some are getting that way).
works fine - running opera beta on vpn.
The 16GB flash probably isn't as quick as a decent SSD, since it's probably only a single channel controller, but still way faster than HDD.
Tempted to get one and pair with a spare external HDD to make a low power consumption server.
https://kodi.tv/a-new-webinterface-called-chorus2/
I wonder if we might be able to install the upcoming Windows Cloud OS on this? It looks like Windows RT 2.0, but I'm curious to try it out.
This may be cheap but I honestly beleive it's overpriced. These things are almost junk now, I reckon Zoostorm know this and are just trying to shift old stock and cut thsir losses. If no one buys them they'll probably just bin thsm I expect.
Don't get me wrong, they have value to us techies and maybe granny ahk only uses a web browser to check emails and the bbc website but to retailers this thing is too old to havs much value.
The only gripe I have is the screen size is not great for touch on windows, really needs 8" minimum but with a keyboard case it helps a LOT.
Thanks for posting
Anyone found a good case that fits it ?
All in all though if it didn't have a faulty headphone jack I would have kept it as it seems a pretty capable tablet, streams videos and can play many games like Roblox and minecraft.
Also if you are buying things from eBay as a multi purchase and return 1 of them it makes it difficult to then arrange a return for the next one, ended up having to ring eBay to get the return sorted for the next 2 as I noticed the faults at different times!