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| 1331925 | 2013-03-07 23:27:00 | Hi Guys. Is the cheap Galaxy Tab2 any good?? or just a disappointment like my old Apad tablet Price seems pretty reasonable at $255 , would be better for youtube vids than my small Andoid phone. It will be more or less a toy :rolleyes: , so dont really want to spend too much. www.jbhifi.co.nz Cheers |
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| 1331926 | 2013-03-08 00:19:00 | Yeah for the price, they're surprisingly decent. They're much better if you run Jellybean on them, either officially from an international source or from the likes of CyanogenMod. I believe the ones in NZ are still running (officially) Ice Cream Sandwich. For the small price, they're pretty damn good, and AFAIK both Vodafone and Telecom are giving them away free on certain plans when you get an SGS3! |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1331927 | 2013-03-08 00:28:00 | Hey yes , i think it is pretty reasonable at $255 . Im looking at the specs that is has a dual core processor , 1gb ram which is alright for the basic things ,8gb flash and msd up to 32 gb . And also it is 7 inch . I just wouldn't bother expecting a tablet good for multitasking . Otherwise I think for you needs it is good . | Nhashon (16466) | ||
| 1331928 | 2013-03-08 00:29:00 | Streets ahead of an APAD at least. Probably a little better than the Acer the warehouse is selling for about the same price. Both are miles ahead of anything else in the same price range. Basically to me, if you can't afford a nexus 7 buy any name brand tablet with at least a dual core processor and try and get android 4 or newer and you'll be happy enough with it. IIRC The tab2 sold poorly when released mainly because it was lower specced than people were expecting and not a noticeable upgrade from the previous model (actually it may have been lower specced). That said it's still a decent tablet for the price. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1331929 | 2013-03-08 00:30:00 | Nah it'll be fine for multitasking and pretty much everything, just it'll be "smoother" with Jellybean, that's all :) | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1331930 | 2013-03-08 00:59:00 | Thanks for the replies, I'll pick one up on the way home. Does Jellybean actually need/use more processor power/memory than Ice Cream?, ie would an upgrade to Jellybean slow down this low spec(?) tablet ? Or is Jelly Bean more of a bugfix/minor update ? ice cream. mmmn :p |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1331931 | 2013-03-08 01:07:00 | I got an iPad 2 when they came out and we recently got the Galaxy Tab2 10.1 free with a new mortgage (thanks ASB), anyway, I do like the wide screen and while some of the apps have more function than iPad ones, or you dont have to pay for all the extra features, the iPad is hands down a better unit, the Galaxy is quite slow browsing the interent, moving the page up and down can be jerky....and I would say most of the apps behave in that way! But hey, is good to keep the kids quiet! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1331932 | 2013-03-08 01:37:00 | Nope Jellybean would speed it up quite significantly. Same for the Tab2 10.1, it makes a massive difference in a LOT of ways, and it's *well* worth getting! Even on my old quad-core 1.5Ghz HTC One X, the difference going from ICS to Jellybean was incredible! On slower devices, even single-core 1Ghz and upwards with only 512MB RAM, it still makes an amazing difference! Check this video out for a bit of an example: www.youtube.com PLUS, you get Google Now in Jellybean :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1331933 | 2013-03-08 02:02:00 | I can upgrade the galaxy to Jelly Bean? | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1331934 | 2013-03-08 03:01:00 | I can upgrade the galaxy to Jelly Bean?I presume this is a job for a technician and not a novice?. I have been awaiting an upgrade from Samsung but it doesn't look as though it will be forthcoming. |
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