News - Argos launches £99 MyTablet, available from tomorrow

[Grimley]

You'd have to put a gun to my head to make me buy anything from Tesco (Yep, they upset me too) Besides, I wouldn't buy the argos one either. I bought the Nexus 7 Mk1 last year & havent looked back, Even if I hadnt bought that then the MkII would be considered.

[Brewster0101]

This kind of low spec for a saving of £20 over the Tesco Hudl is just going to pour more and more people into Tesco for the Hudl.

[herulach]

Literally no one on this forum is the target for this. Your guy in the street doesn't look at specs, certainly not for tablets, its bought on price, and for 99 Quid's I suspect this will sell well. They also do a pink one, which means they'll shift a buttload based on that alone.

[noodles2k]

Looks like a giant iPhone.

[HalloweenJack]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/argos...0606.html?vp=1


watch the video - its rather `thick` tbh

[Tips]

Don't think that's the tablet for me, gonna wait another week until the new Ipad mini is unveiled

[Saracen]

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However, not to defend Saracen, he doesn't like the Surface RT so obviously is wrong on anything non-chalk tablet related.

Again, though, there's a difference between my view of whether a device is technically good, and/or good value, and whether I personally would buy one.


There may be reasons why I wouldn't buy a device even if it was superb. For a start, there are some companies with whom, for various reasons, I will personally simply not countenance doing business with.

But, with a journalistic hat on, I have to ask who the reader of the publication I'm writing for is, and consider the strengths and weaknesses, merits and problems, with that reader demographic in mind, not my personal preferences.

A classic example might be a laptop review. If a specific machine a good buy? Depends what you want it for. I reviewed many powerhouse laptops that were leaders in their field, byt that I wouldn't buy, because "powerhouse" wasn't what I needed. What I wanted was to run basic office apps, mainly WP, plus Accounts, a few odd items BUT have a machine as light as I could get, with as good a battery life as I could get, because my personal primary use was on trains, or more often, planes. So I wanted it light 'cos I was lugging it round the planet, and with good battery life because there were no power points on planes in those days.

That has to be the thought process .... not jyst is product goid or bad, but in what context.

It's not so much that I don't consider Surface RT to be good machines. More it's that, first, it's not what I wanted from a tablet, and second, I still haven't forgiven MS for Windows 8 on which, as far as I'm concerned, MUI was all about leveraging tablet market share by using Windows installed userbase and foisting a UI patently oriented towards touch onto vast numbers of machines that, first, don't have touch, and second, for which it is unsuitable.

It's not that I don't like Surface RT. It's that I will not buy one because of the way MS went about things, even if they were suitable for me, which they really aren't. All I need a tablet for, really, as I said earlier, is a portable web browsing terminal. About all I use mine for is Firefox, a BBC News app, a portable cookbook app, and a Sudoku game. Surface RT might be a tad overkillish??

[3dcandy]

I can see where Saracen is coming from, but I'm personally not able to plop down cash like I used to be able, so I'd consider a hudl just because of it's value for money if I was in the market for a tablet. Or perhaps even the Argos MyTablet or whatever it's called today for £99.
However it does appear that others DO have the disposable income to choose where they shop, so I reckon you've got a simple choice in that particular market this Christmas, Argos or Tescos. I imagine in the next couple of weeks that will change though...

[Saracen]

I can see where Saracen is coming from, but I'm personally not able to plop down cash like I used to be able, so I'd consider a hudl just because of it's value for money if I was in the market for a tablet. Or perhaps even the Argos MyTablet or whatever it's called today for £99.
However it does appear that others DO have the disposable income to choose where they shop, so I reckon you've got a simple choice in that particular market this Christmas, Argos or Tescos. I imagine in the next couple of weeks that will change though...

There are a lot of people with cash restraints, and for most people, a tablet of any sort is a discretionary purchase, not an essential. And plonking down iPad cash levels probably implies having to forego, or at least delay, doing or buying something else. I entirely agree with you, and that's precisely why (IMHO, of course) the hudl, and even Argos thing, will open up a new segment of the market.

I wanted a tablet for quite a while, but would not pay over £200 for it, let alone £400 or more for an iPad. It's not that I couldn't, so much as wouldn't. Same with an ereader. I wanted one when they were £300-ish, but told myself "not until they're £100". I gave in at £115, IIRC.

[directhex]

Target market is apparently 8-13 year olds.