Originally Posted by
jimbouk
Trying not to put a spanner in the works, but is there wifi in the hospital? If not you're either going to have to get a tablet that has 3G built in and a data allowance, or share the data connectivity of a phone with bluetooth/a wifi hotspot and need a large data allowance.
We don't want you spending £100 on a tablet then racking up another £100 going over your data allowance, set limits and be sensible (because children aren't always).
Tablet recommendations, if it was 7" then I'd say a second hand Nexus 7 (1st generation). If it's just a video player and internet browser than I'd just look for something with a mostly up-to-date Android version and reasonable screen resolution and not worry about the finer details. 7" does seem to be a lot more common in that price range though.