I-pad or android tablet ..?

Ignoring the last comment... I think I will have to go with the galaxy tab, I know it isn't much money in comparison. Also, to be fair to him, he did help me out a lot at uni, loaning me my rent money for each year in advance (all paid back now), and then contributing towards the wedding. He deserves far more than this, I just hope he will use it. He loves gadgety things though, and he's never off his laptop, so I'm fairly confident.

 

Before seeing this, I found this one instead Lenovo IdeaTab S6000 Tablet, Quad-core Processor, Android, 10.1", Wi-Fi, 16GB, Black

It is £179 from John Lewis so 2 year guarantee instead of the standard 1 year, compared all the specifications and it beat the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 in every area. Almost definitely decided on this one.

 

Thanks I've watched a few youtube video reviews which seemed fine. It is slimmer than the Galaxy Tab 2, the extra useless software obviously isn't great, but I may be able to remove that. I did notice that the homepage didn't have the best layout. Saying that, he doesn't know any different, so wouldn't be able to compare it to a better layout. He's not the most tech savvy person in the world (despite liking new stuff), the most up to date thing he has is an old laptop, so I don't think he would even notice if it took 1 second to load a screen rather than it being instantaneous. I know there's better stuff out there, but for what he wants it for (literally facebook and Player), and the fact that a 1-2 second wait time for him will probably seem fast/normal, I think it'll be more than fine. I may just be being cheap though. Also, the only other alternative I can afford is the Galaxy, and this is actually better than that (although not as good as more expensive things).

 

Sorry for taking over Ade. Hopefully one of those I was considering may be useful for your wife too, at half the price of the ipad.

 

I've got a Nexus 7 (not the latest one) and I've been very impressed with it. I hadn't really had much experience of Android before but I'm massively impressed with it and after getting used to it on the tablet I got a Nexus 5 to replace an iPhone. As a bit of a tech geek its the best thing I've ever done and I now realise how restricted iPhones and iPads are.

As long as you avoid the really cheap android tablets you can't go wrong, my nexus 7 doesn't have a particularly fast processor (so I'm told) but its very responsive and plays high quality video no problem so I think it'll be good for another 12 months at least.

The benefit of getting a nexus tablet is you get the latest version of android as soon as it's released, a lot of other manufacturers take ages to release it to their devices - a lot don't actually bother to push out the new versions so you miss out on a lot of new features and performance improvements.