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    News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    The supermarket reveals that it plans to launch a revamped Hudl tablet later this year.
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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    Its a shame they didnt keep it up to date with android really, Hopefully the next one will have a little more GPU oomph

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    Yeah it's a good tablet for the price, bought one for my son for xmas. Totally agree with Biscuit, a bit more GPU power would be good. It handles most games but the really demanding games it really struggles with. Overall a great tablet still

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    Well done Tesco.

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    Well done Tesco for firing a serious warning shot at Samsung and the other Android makers - that cheap can also mean good quality.

    Shame their food doesn't equal the same value.

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    There are two in my household, one for each of my boys, we paid for one with Tesco vouchers, so it was half price (£60), making the already low price even better.

    They are great little tablets. On of my sons uses his for all sorts of casual games, which work fine on it. My other son mostly uses it for Netflix.

    I will be interested to see what Tesco add with their device refresh. My guess is they will add a 3G version so they can bundle SIM cards and contracts and continue making a profit on the thing after it goes out of the door.

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    I was expecting more than 500,000 units considering the amount of 'promotion' it gets in store and the pretty much constant half price (£60) if you buy it with vouchers.... having said that a lot of people buy based on the looks of the thing or on 'cool factor' and the huddle is in no way a looker....

    I'll stick with my nexus 7 2012 until I get a win 8 tablet

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    Wife has my old nexus 7, I replaced it with a hudl. I rather like the Hudle, main reason to switch was hdmi output, which works perfectly.

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    Quote Originally Posted by Biscuit View Post
    Its a shame they didnt keep it up to date with android really
    Archos, tbh

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    At its full retail price this cannot hold its own against the LG g-pad which tesco are also selling at £119. (if you can find one in stock that is)

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    It is a good device for the price, but I can't knowingly buy anything from Tesco. There are a lot of other companies that I should also be boycotting (but don't) but Tesco is the one that really grates on me. I just can't stand their business ethics.

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    I bought one £60 with vouchers but still had to return it. Areas of the screen just had zero touch response. We literally had to rotate it quite often just to press the home button etc.

    I can only imagine that most have fully responsive screens and we were just unlucky. Otherwise it would have been a cracking deal and I hope they do keeping making them to keep the other tablet markers honest.

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    Quote Originally Posted by Noli View Post
    I bought one £60 with vouchers but still had to return it. Areas of the screen just had zero touch response. We literally had to rotate it quite often just to press the home button etc.
    I had a similar problem with a Hudl I had. There was an inch wide strip on the left edge of the screen (When held in a portrait position) that did not respond to touch events. It was obviously faulty. When I got through to tech support they where familiar with the issue and authorised an exchange right away, so it sounds like there have been a few with that fault. The only annoying thing is that the store would not let me swap it without talking to tech support.

    The replacement worked perfectly and has had no issues.

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    I wouldn't by anything techy that tesco made. Once bought a TV and the Screen departed from the insides as it was glued together. Cheep and nasty.
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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    Quote Originally Posted by deejayburnout View Post
    I wouldn't by anything techy that tesco made. Once bought a TV and the Screen departed from the insides as it was glued together. Cheep and nasty.
    Tesco don't make tech. It's all subcontracted. Hudl is Archos

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    Re: News - Tesco hits 500K Hudl tablet sales, now working on a successor

    Quote Originally Posted by deejayburnout View Post
    I wouldn't by anything techy that tesco made. Once bought a TV and the Screen departed from the insides as it was glued together. Cheep and nasty.
    I would agree that you have to be careful, but I would not rule out all Tesco products.

    I have had a bad experence myself with a Tesco branded TV. It suffered from poor viewing angles, tinny sound and a confusing on screen user interface. For that reason I would be caution about buying own brand tech from any retail chain. Not just Tesco but any brand, even John Lewis.

    I think the lession to lean is to check reviews and do your homework, and if the product does turn out to be faulty then you are in a better position if you got it from a chain like tesco who have a presence everywhere because it is easy to get it sorted.

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