Ipad

[NickFitz]

Women love iPads. It does what they want without any messing around.

On the other hand, you could buy a mid range Android with the promise to do so again every time her birthday comes round. Five years down the line you will still have saved cash.

Do mid-range Android tablets really only cost £93? I'd have thought that was the cheaper end of the market, not mid-range.

And I'm basing that calculation on the top-of-the-range iPad (currently the Air 2) with the maximum memory (128GB).

[unixman]

Do mid-range Android tablets really only cost £93? I'd have thought that was the cheaper end of the market, not mid-range.

And I'm basing that calculation on the top-of-the-range iPad (currently the Air 2) with the maximum memory (128GB).

Making it a birthday present means you don't tell her the price.

[unixman]

I bought my 3GS in 2009, running iOS 3; it received its last OS update to iOS 6 in 2012. It still works.

Meanwhile, the Samsung Galaxy S was released in 2010 with Android 2.1, was upgraded to 2.2 that year and in 2011, at around one year old, was upgraded to 2.3, after which it received no further updates.

I think Apple win that round when it comes to duration of support.

Samsung stopped OS updates for my S3 phone two years after it was launched, or sooner. One OS update then poof, nothing.

What goes around comes around, Sammy. Just bought my first tablet - a Sony, after hearing that Sony and Google are best at supporting older kit.

[VectraMan]

Samsung stopped OS updates for my S3 phone two years after it was launched, or sooner. One OS update then poof, nothing.

What goes around comes around, Sammy. Just bought my first tablet - a Sony, after hearing that Sony and Google are best at supporting older kit.

You should go for "pure" Android as much as possible; avoid the manufacturers that insist on giving you lots of extra crap because those are the ones that don't get updated. My two year old Moto G has just updated to brand spanking new Android 5.1.

Some of this comes down to whether you think 4x3 is better than 16x9. It is, unless you want your tablet to be a TV.

[unixman]

YES, all we want is a system. No crap ware. Updates to the latest OS as appropriate.

And factory fit the screen protectors FFS.

[MicrosoftBob]

Samsung stopped OS updates for my S3 phone two years after it was launched, or sooner. One OS update then poof, nothing.

What goes around comes around, Sammy. Just bought my first tablet - a Sony, after hearing that Sony and Google are best at supporting older kit.

Quite, I'm still getting updates on my Nexus 4 and that's an antique now

[AtW]

Making it a birthday present means you don't tell her the price.

Yeah, like she would not be able to figure it out that you gave her cheap present...

[unixman]

Yeah, like she would not be able to figure it out that you gave her cheap present...

It's either that or cubic zirconia.

[FarmerPalmer]

These guys sell reconditioned apple kit:

http://www.elf.co.uk/PriceList.pdf

no connection etc.

Personally I like my Samsung Android kit.
I have a Tab3 8" which still works great but I fancied a bigger screen to display specifications on whilst I'm coding on my desktop, so have just got a Tab S 10.5" which is very nice.

[d000hg]

That reminds me, I need to install the iOS 9.1 update on the iPad 2 I bought back in 2011.

I hope it's better than iOS8... my iPad2 is noticeably slow these days. It's like an old Windows PC when it slowly got slower and slower except iOS doesn't (IIRC) suffer from general system slow-down.

Even my iPad3 is a bit sluggish these days and I'm sure it was lovely and slick when I got it 2nd-hand.

Shall have to update once I here 9.1 didn't break anything major