Don't waste your money on an awful Android tablet on Black Friday

It's not only with Black Friday. The Android tablets market is flooded with absolute expensive stinkers for devices. You will notice this in any physical electronic store.

Isn't not buying anything on Black Friday generally a good advice?

Even better tip : Don't waste your money on an awful Android tablet on Black Friday

It gets worse. Visiting a friend recently, they tried to give me an old Kindle, (which I politely declined). They have a drawer of about 6 old ones because they can't help buying the latest every sale. They don't even read that much!!

When it comes to tablets, if it is not an iPad, Galaxy Tab S, or Pixel tablet don’t waste the money period. Everything else is pushed out the door and forgotten about by the OEM before the delivery truck leaves the warehouse.

Don't buy cheap tablets, they're never worth your time. Shop fleaBay for a Samsung Tab S6, S7 or S8 depending on your budget instead - you'll be much happier with the outcome.

I'm still using my 2019 Tab S6 for Netflix, Reddit, PDF reading and annotation, comics and occasionally ebooks via KOReader. Great device, absolutely worth the ~$400 I spent on it on fleaBay ~3-4y ago.

If AMOLED is a must for you the Tab S6, Tab S7 Plus, Tab S8 Plus or Ultra and any Tab S9 model are where you want to start. I'll replace my Tab S6 when the 11in Tab S9 drops below ~$400 secondhand.

This whole thread smells like a Samsung ad...

Just avoid any no name 16core 12gb ram 512gb rom device that's a £100 it's all junk and most likely loaded with malware

On that note, what are GOOD android tablets for different price ranges?

I just need a cheap tablet that can be rooted (hopefully) with an FHD+ display to watch a few episodes on. Which one do you recommend?

I have one of those Lenovos for reading comics, and they're great. Nothing amazing but you can't beat the bang for your buck.

I've hated tablets since they first came out and never really changed on that. It's just a miserable way for me to do anything when I have a phone and computer already. I would be into a Kindle for reading on eink, but outside of that I can't stand tablets.

Pixel Tablet with GrapheneOS is the best choice

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I had bought a P11 Pro Gen 2 because I wanted an Oled tablet for reading, and outside of buying a very old Samsung S5e, it's basically the cheapest option for oled along with its Chinese counterpart (Xiaoxin Pad Pro). Samsung Oled tablets are all of the # Plus tablets, which usually retail for more than the p11 pro gen 2.

NOTE: Lenovo Tab M10 Plus, the 32GB version has 3GB of ram. The 64GB version (which isn't much more, I got it for $150 the other day) has 4 GB ram.

Are there any of these cheapshit 7" tablets that will take something like LineageOS? Because that's the first thing I'd do before I put a spyware laden thing like that on my network.

Yeah if I were to buy offbrand, it'd be a Windows tab. At least due to the driver standardization and everything, and near-endless updates, I got a good chance to be able to use that so long as the raw hardware is up to speed.

The article mentions tablets with resistive touch.

Is that really a thing? I thought, Android only supported capacitative touch.

Resistive touch would mean no multitouch and thus no two-finger gestures.

"They might not have the Google Play Store, or might be loaded up with bloatware apps that you can’t remove" That sounds pretty much like Google app's to me🤔

Blackview tab 16 is the best "offbrand "tablet I have found.

Mega specs,huge storage but less than 200euro with accessories.

Battery life is great,but we will have to see how it is in 6 months....

I want to add that I bought the OnePlus Pad, which has been great for my use case of mainly reading epubs and PDFs. The aspect ratio is 7:5, which is much better for reading than many of the aspect ratios of other tablets I looked at. Also the battery life is pretty good, but I also don't use it for anything computationally intensive

Edit: It's not exactly cheap though, costing $480. But there's a sale right now for $400, which is still not exactly cheap. But I think it was worth the price for me

I now have an S6 Lite (keeping on One UI for an experiment)!