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Read more.What do you get in a tablet that costs £20 less than Tesco’s Hudl?
It's like a rebranded Archos tablet or something?
Would rather pay the 20 notes extra for the hudl, argos specs suck.
DittoOriginally Posted by raven1001
This sounds more like the spec that people were expecting the Hudl to come out with, at their price point, did Tesco drop this and then the maker go shopping it to other chains?
Personally, I'd rather pay £80 more than the hudl for a Nexus 7, but that doesn't mean there isn't a market, and likely a large one, one the hudl or Argos thingy.
Hmmmph, statistics. If the quoted figures attributed to Reuters are correct, 19.7 million users is 25% of the UK population, putting the population at 80 million. I know there's an alleged "flood" of immigrants, legal. or otherwise, but last time I looked, it was more like 61 million.
But seriously, there is a large market for budget tablets, be it hudl or Argos, or anything else, and the more the merrier. What the spec needs to be very much depends what the user wants to do. I use mine as little more than a lightweight, portable web browser and document viewer, and it doesn't need to be a powerhouse. The screen might not be Retina, for example, but it's perfectly adequate for anything I want it for.
There are lots of people that just might buy in at under £100 but won't at over that, no matter the difference in spec. After all, you can do the "just a bit more" logic right up to the iPad. I've done it more than a few times....... (on other product types, certainly not with the iPad)
For people on this website though, who will have more knowledge than your average person in the street, the Hudl is much better. As for the Nexus 7 I currently don't see it being worth the extra £80 especially seeing as the hudl lets you insert a microsd card...
However, each to their own - the Hudl seems the best bang for buck though by a considerable margin
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
Yeah, the Hudl looks to be worth the extra over this - unless you like pink, I suppose.
There's a Sumvision 7" tab on pre-order at Ebuyer which looks to be near identical specs as the Hudl, minus some screen res, for £20 less. Looks better than this Argos unit for the same money.
Of course under £100 is a magic price point, but you can use your vouchers with Tesco thus bringing it down
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
To be honest, agree entirely on the microsd card. I bought a Samsung (at an extremely good price) and one of the reasons was the card slot. Without that slot, I would not have bought. So yup, you got me there.
The hudl does, from my brief look at it, seem like good value. Personally, I fell out with Tesco years ago, and haven't used them since. I wouldn't accept a hudl as a gift, because it's Tesco. But I'd agree there's a market for that, and bang for buck, it looks good.
However, better bang for buck or not, it's still more bucks. Some will go for more bang with hudl, some for less bucks with Argos. I doubt many prospective serious iPad buyers would look at either.
.... if you have vouchers, or have a Reward card, or whatever it's called.
initial reviews show this is crap. literally crap. at least the hudl can compare to the older nexus models , but this is not very good.
ofc , a review might be hard as a certain admin doesn't like Tesco....
For clarity, that certain admin is a FORUM admin. I have nothing whatever to do with what gets reviewed, or what reviews say, on HEXUS, as a website.
Also, I'm a professional, and I review what I get paid to review, and do it impartially, or I simply wouldn't agree to do the review .... and someone else would do it.
I've written thousands of articles, for publishers in this country and outside, for everything from national newspapers, like the Telegraph, to PC press like PC Pro, but not once, ever, written, contributed to or even affected, any HEXUS review.
My involvement with HEXUS is and only ever has been on the forum side, never the review side.
But say, for argument's sake, PC Pro or the Telegraph wanted a hudl review? I'd do it, and do it utterly fairly and impartially, on the merits. I just wouldn't buy one, but my disagreement with Tesco has no bearing on the merits, or otherwise, of the device.
So an admin dislikes tesco, doesn't mean that everyone at hexus does......
However with hudl, as I've written before you need to look at it in the concept of this hybrid digital / physical eco system. This is why their TV On Demand service is so interesting...
However, not to defend Saracen, he doesn't like the Surface RT so obviously is wrong on anything non-chalk tablet related.
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A quick browse around second hand shops shows up a lot of original Nexus 7 in 16GB for around £105. Why the heck would anyone buy this? Hudl I can see - the Clubcard voucher scheme really is a huge bonus - but this is far too watered down.
How long till Microsoft starts asking Argos and Tesco for the "contribution" for their patents as they are using Android, in the way that other OEMs have paid up the "do-not-sue-us" vig.
Of course, Tesco/Argos are likely using an OEM to build it for them, who may have already paid the vig anyhow.
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