THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO…
Affordable tablets
You don’t have to pay a huge amount to get yourself a great tablet – and we can tell you exactly what you need to be looking for in a budget slate
Words: David Nield
Photography: Neil Godwin
Picking up a tablet might at first seem like an unnecessary luxury when you already have a smartphone, but you’d be surprised at just how many apps work better on a bigger display – that extra screen real estate really comes in handy for reading emails, browsing the web and working on documents, and of course movies and television shows benefit from the additional space too.
Actually, when you think about it properly, there aren’t many tasks that are more suited to a phone than to a tablet... it’s just that a tablet can’t fit in your pocket, so it’s difficult to take around with you all day. Perhaps taking photos and making calls are best left to phones, but for everything else a tablet really shines.
What’s more, this is an upgrade that doesn’t have to cost you: as we’ll show you here, affordable tablets are becoming better and better in almost every area. While they can’t quite match up to the slates at the premium end of the market in every department, they’re certainly very usable, and there’s the added benefit of not having wasted a fortune if something untoward should happen to your device.