How good are cheap Android tablets?
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I feel myself wanting to play with Android to see what it is all about.
How usable are these ~150 Android tablets that seem to be all over the place? Are some better than others? Anything to look out for or avoid? Would I be doing my Android experience a disservice by using something of that cheap a price?
I would mainly be wanting to install things like SSH client, MPD remote, VLC remote, perhaps do some web browsing and the like but don't envisage anything 3D or particularly processor intensive. I feel I should also try to reflash the OS and write an app if I can.
Any advice?
For background I was lucky enough to be given an iPad generation 1 years ago by an old employer as a prize. I don't really like the thing but I have enjoyed not liking it, if that makes sense? I've also managed to get things like VLC and an MPD remote working and at one time had a VLC remote which, since a VLC update, has stopped working.
I also, briefly, owned a Sony-Ericsson smart phone running Android which was a bad purchasing decision as it had a tiny and very bad touch screen which I couldn't use. Luckily it was a second phone. (whole long story)
Currently use a Blackberry 9900 as my day-to-day phone and hope not to have to go to non-physical keyboard any time soon and, also, have no need for "apps" beyond the SSH client I have on it.
How usable are these ~150 Android tablets that seem to be all over the place? Are some better than others? Anything to look out for or avoid? Would I be doing my Android experience a disservice by using something of that cheap a price?
I would mainly be wanting to install things like SSH client, MPD remote, VLC remote, perhaps do some web browsing and the like but don't envisage anything 3D or particularly processor intensive. I feel I should also try to reflash the OS and write an app if I can.
Any advice?
For background I was lucky enough to be given an iPad generation 1 years ago by an old employer as a prize. I don't really like the thing but I have enjoyed not liking it, if that makes sense? I've also managed to get things like VLC and an MPD remote working and at one time had a VLC remote which, since a VLC update, has stopped working.
I also, briefly, owned a Sony-Ericsson smart phone running Android which was a bad purchasing decision as it had a tiny and very bad touch screen which I couldn't use. Luckily it was a second phone. (whole long story)
Currently use a Blackberry 9900 as my day-to-day phone and hope not to have to go to non-physical keyboard any time soon and, also, have no need for "apps" beyond the SSH client I have on it.