Tesco Hudl 2

[Dribble]

If you are not in Britain, then this thread is just to make you jealous.

This must be the bargain of the year, costs £65 of tesco clubcard vouchers (tesco fake money you accumulate if you shop there), but comes with amongst other things a £10 blinkbox film voucher and £10 ebook voucher. Both of these are actually useful (eg blinkbox has a huge range of films and tv to rent/buy, can chromecast) so net cost of this tablet is £45 of fake tesco money.

For that you get a well made tablet in whatever colour you like, really good 8.3 inch 1920x1200 screen, intel quad core cpu (1.33GHz Atom Z3745D, boosts to 1.83Ghz), 2gb ram, 16gb flash, stereo speakers, sd card slot. Stock android with some pre installed tesco apps, and other generally useful stuff. It's not perfect - battery life is a little short, it's on the heavy side, touch response isn't the greatest and occasionally it has compatibility problems (Intel cpu is a little unusual).

But really - £45 - given nexus 9 is £320 for the 16gb version but with no sd slot you really need the 32gb for £400 - that's getting on for 10x the cost! It's a no brainer.

 

[Red Storm]

battery life is a little short, it's on the heavy side, touch response isn't the greatest and occasionally it has compatibility problems (Intel cpu is a little unusual).

Those seem like pretty annoying/significant issues to me.

Though slightly different, this reminds me of the chinese tablets that sell for cheap and have obvious flaws.

 

[sm625]

It's nice to know intel isnt just dumping in NA.

 

[Dribble]

Those seem like pretty annoying/significant issues to me.

Though slightly different, this reminds me of the chinese tablets that sell for cheap and have obvious flaws.

But then so does nexus 9 (both having flaws and being made in some far east sweat shop) only google want a lot of money for the nexus. Hudl 2 certainly doesn't feel cheap, it's no iPad but it's no cheap chinese knockoff either.

It's nice to know intel isnt just dumping in NA.

I'm not complaining - if everyone is subsidizing my tablet purchase I win for once.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I honestly think this and the Hudl 1s are interesting devices. It is like if Wal-Mart made a tablet, and it was actually good! Even in an age of constant comic book movies that is beyond the realm of believability for most nerds.

The Android tablet market obviously isn't very good. The only Nexus tablet line to provide real value- the 7 line - is gone. No one else dares to make a mainstream stock tablet, other than the now retired LG G Pad 8.3 or Nvidia (who can't quite get it right). Years after the Xoom/Honeycomb and Android's tablet offers are still a far way away from what iOS offers.

I think it is awesome that Tesco has stepped into that and succeeded. I especially like that rather than trying to skin Android to death, for the Hudl 2 they have done a Moto and simply expanded the stock in ways customers wanted like parental controls. I like how its a populist device, giving access to an SD card slot and can be bought with reward points basically.

I normally feel bad for UKers seeing how much more the same pieces of hardware are there. But between this tablet and the superpower S5 yall get I think 2014 is the year for the British Android fan.

Even beyond that, I see the Hudl line as something of a ZX Spectrum - twenty years from now adults that are now children will reminisce about how they got their start on technology with this tablet. Maybe it will lead to a tech boom in the UK down the road, access to good and cheap technology tends to do that.

In the shorter term it shows that someone other than Google or Amazon CAN make a decent cheap tablet, which is what the market here in the US sorely needs.

 

[preslove]

This sounds like what Amazon should have made instead of the fire.

 

[soccerballtux]

If you are not in Britain, then this thread is just to make you jealous.

This must be the bargain of the year, costs £65 of tesco clubcard vouchers (tesco fake money you accumulate if you shop there), but comes with amongst other things a £10 blinkbox film voucher and £10 ebook voucher. Both of these are actually useful (eg blinkbox has a huge range of films and tv to rent/buy, can chromecast) so net cost of this tablet is £45 of fake tesco money.

For that you get a well made tablet in whatever colour you like, really good 8.3 inch 1920x1200 screen, intel quad core cpu (1.33GHz Atom Z3745D, boosts to 1.83Ghz), 2gb ram, 16gb flash, stereo speakers, sd card slot. Stock android with some pre installed tesco apps, and other generally useful stuff. It's not perfect - battery life is a little short, it's on the heavy side, touch response isn't the greatest and occasionally it has compatibility problems (Intel cpu is a little unusual).

But really - £45 - given nexus 9 is £320 for the 16gb version but with no sd slot you really need the 32gb for £400 - that's getting on for 10x the cost! It's a no brainer.

can you buy some for us and sell them here?

 

[soccerballtux]

Maybe it will lead to a tech boom in the UK down the road, access to good and cheap technology tends to do that.

haha no. In 20 years it will be the same 200 companies in charge that were 50 years ago.

 

[WelshBloke]

Though slightly different, this reminds me of the chinese tablets that sell for cheap and have obvious flaws.

It's pretty well made out of good parts and your buying it from a massive UK chain so you get to take advantage of the UKs 2 year warranty on electrical goods.

It has very little in common with cheap Chinese tablets made from cardboard, lead and leftover electronics from children's toys.

The only downside is whether it would get many updates from Tesco if you're the type to worry about having the latest os revision.

 

[Zaap]

Without that outer layer of rubberized fugliness it'd be a pretty nice little tablet.

 

[WelshBloke]

Without that outer layer of rubberized fugliness it'd be a pretty nice little tablet.

It's one of those soft touch coatings rather than rubber, it feels quite nice.

Oh, the hdmi out is a nice bonus as well.