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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

I was given an Android tablet at Christmas but I don't know if it's me or what but I'm totally underwhelmed with it. In fact it annoys me!

I can get a refund up to the end of the month but I wonder if I'm missing something vital that would change my mind over it.

I NEVER play games, don't like Facebook and haven't used a Kindle to read books. I don't have a smart phone and can't see me wanting one either. I've never been into iPods, (I had a cheap mp3 player which I left on an aircraft and didn't bother to replace).

I love my laptop but use it as a desktop substitute so wonder if I'm just not into portable technology?

Any thoughts?

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SantaFefan · Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 8:48 pm Post subject:

I bought an iPad and I must admit we only use it for Solitaire in the bathroom! Mrs SF browses Ebay on it too using our wireless internet but other than that it's pretty useless...
I've been told I slipped up buying this iPad because it won't connect to the internet if I'm away from my wireless set up. If that's true, I wish I'd been told this at PC World.
When I'm at our other place up the coast, as yet without internet, I do use my IPhone to check eBay, emails etc.. but it's not great being so small.
I wouldn't be without my iPod though! one of the best things I've ever had.
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I bought an iPad last year only to store all my photos and to show them easily to other people. I have yet to explore going on line with it but when I go away in Feb for a week's holiday (escaping all my many duties Smile

) I shall have plenty of playtime as the hotel has free WiFi throughout the building.

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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

I doubt I'd ever have an iPhone Colin unless they make the Nokia type obselete and I don't have or want iTunes which was one of the reasons I decided against the iPad.

My laptop sits on my desk and I think has only been moved once in the 2 years that I've had it so I'm wondering if I'm just not a 'mobile' type of person?

I'll see how I get on with it during the next week or so before I make the decision on what to do with it but it just sits there looking at me and that annoys me somehow! I think I have the feeling that I 'should' have one but don't really want one..............

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Colin · Joined: 26 Sep 2013 Posts: 916

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Wish now I'd taken it back for refund to Tesco before Jan 31 deadline!

Started to like it a bit but now it's more than half full of stuff I can't remove. Everytime you turn it on something else updates and takes up more of the precious data! Out of 16GB there is only 7GB of space...........and I've not put anything on it apart from a few apps.

Anyone want a Hudl2?
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Colin · Joined: 26 Sep 2013 Posts: 916

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

It's not so much that it's basic Colin, it's a Hudl 2 not the original one that came out over a year ago, just that it's full of c*ap that can't be removed. It works fine and has got very good write ups.

One of the apps, Blinkbox books closed down today (you can read stuff until next week) and then you have to go to Kobo to read what you have downloaded. I've only a couple of titles that were obtained with a voucher that came with it the Hudl. The annoying thing is that you are going to be unable to remove an app that no longer will have any purpose just taking up space! I'm wondering if that would be means for a refund?

I wonder if the Blinkbox Movies and Music will go the same way and also be unable to remove?

Watched some online craft type courses which I already had on my large laptop, but were much easier to watch from the comfort of an armchair and could just put it next to where you were working.

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Colin · Joined: 26 Sep 2013 Posts: 916

Ian Robinson · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2015 11:26 am Post subject:

Seeing as how Tesco sold off Blinkbox last year - before you purchased the Hudl - perhaps you could return it on the grounds they sold you content that they knew would no longer be available? I can't think of the technical term, sorry!

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

That's what I was thinking Ian. There was a booklet of vouchers supposedly valid until August 2015 then all of a sudden you get an email saying you have to use the £10 (for each app) credit within 2 weeks and you have a week or so longer to read whatever you have bought.

There are 3 or 4 separate movie apps that can't be removed, and the same for music. The all add up to a fair bit of space on the tablet.

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Heard the contents of your e mail today on the JV Show Helen

I didn't think that you really got a proper answer and I rather get the feeling that the so called 'on line' expert isn't really that much of an expert - still I expect she's being paid big money Rolling Eyes

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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

No I'm not much better informed although Jeremy did I think try to help by adding something at the end. I'll listen again and see if I missed anything else.

Must admit I hadn't thought about where it is all stored ie in Europe or the US.

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Colin · Joined: 26 Sep 2013 Posts: 916

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Must admit I didn't think she would have been paid although Jeremy did refer to her as 'Radio 2's computer expert' so maybe she is on a retainer of some kind? I haven't heard her before but it sounds like she's been on before.

Colin one of the topics was about the cloud and what it was, the costs etc. I've not used it or really paid too much attention but it was something I have been thinking about for various reasons.

I emailed and just said I'd recently got a tablet and was thinking I would probably need to use it but wondered about security and costs.

It was a genuine request when I heard Jeremy and Ken discussing the show earlier on.

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Colin · Joined: 26 Sep 2013 Posts: 916

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

It wasn't the setting up of it that was being discussed but what it was and why you would or would not want to use it.

Actually I didn't find a problem in the way Jeremy handled it, he'd had an Apple computer fail on him but hadn't lost a thing due to I presume a form of the cloud (he did say what it was but I can't remember). It was more about using cloud and/or external hard drives and the whys and wherefores of the laws that applied to the country where your data was being held.

Listen back Colin if you're interested, it was the last 25 minutes or so of the show.

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Colin · Joined: 26 Sep 2013 Posts: 916

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Anyone use their tablets for reading books?

Is it normal to get messages implying they know when and guessing where you are reading? I had to switch from Blinkbox to Kobo to finish the book I had from Blinkbox when they closed down week ago, but it keeps showing that it knows when I'm reading and where.

I'm not getting paranoid but does Kindle do this? Blinkbox didn't.

I've finished the book so thinking about uninstalling the app and getting Kindle instead.

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Colin · Joined: 26 Sep 2013 Posts: 916

I read mistly "real" books as opposed to ones on tablets because they're easier on my eyes late at night, but when I do it's on an iPad using Apple's iBooks app. However, you won't have problems with Kindle because it's an Amazon product and therefore tied in closely to Amazon as a book vendor. The Amazon Kindle Fire is supposed to be very good.

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Sorry I should have said I'd be using the Kindle app on the Android Hudl. I had Blinkbox vouchers so thought I'd use them up.

I'm not totally sold on e-books and I'm not sure I like Kobo but wondered what anyone else used. It annoyed me that they keep asking you to review the book.

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 12:28 am Post subject:

Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Thanks Ian. I'll try Kindle and get rid of Kobo. I only used it as they took over Blinkbox and I still had a book to read on it.

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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Kobo isn't Amazon Colin it's WHSmith............

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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19300 Location: Cheshire

Yes they can be somewhat annoying!

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Ian Robinson · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:33 pm Post subject:

It's Amazon's algorithm's that I find annoying. Say I look at a fridge, then buy one, I'm not that likely to want to buy another a week later am I? Yet that's what they keep sending me e-mails about!