7" Tablet Suggestions

cddh · ‎03-17-2010

I'm lookin for a 7" tablet with speech to text capabilities to especially text and retrieve/send emails, front and rear camera. The few I've found either do not have the mic icon on keyboard or only have front camera. Wonder if there is a smallish tablet with what I am looking for.

Ainhisg · ‎03-09-2010

Would you consider an 8" tablet, and if so, what is your pricepoint? I have cheap tablets all the way up to the newest iPad mini 4, which is 8 inches. It is...hands down...the best of all my tablets. Blazing fast, amazing display, excellent speech to text capabilities...the cream of the crop. Best Buy often has it on sale for $299. My least favorite tablet is the cheapo $50 Amazon Fire...painfully slow, muted colors, no speech to text...I actually pretty well hate it. lol

cddh · ‎03-17-2010

I agree about the Amazon fire! Hate it! 299.00 is a bit too steep for me. Where do you offer your products?

SilleeMee · ‎05-22-2016

Samsung Galaxy Tab A....around $120.

cddh · ‎03-17-2010

That's very reasonble. Does it have rear camera, speech to text icon on keyboard? Where is it for that price?

cddh · ‎03-17-2010

OK, did a search. There are a few online. Thanks for the suggestion.

Nuttmeg · ‎03-09-2010

@SilleeMee wrote:
Samsung Galaxy Tab A....around $120.

Sometimes Amazon sells the Samsung Galaxy S2 8" for $299. I found one on sale in July 2016. This tablet is on par with an iPad mini.

cddh · ‎03-17-2010

Think I will go to BestBuy to look at them in person and then do an internet search for the model that meets my needs. So hard to do it all online.

Yesyesyes568 · ‎12-22-2010

Oh don't say u hate it. I just ordered 2 fires from the other place to try out the alexa in it. It's built right in it. Oh noooo and you hate it. It's a newer version. Too late. Qq

@Ainhisg wrote:
Would you consider an 8" tablet, and if so, what is your pricepoint? I have cheap tablets all the way up to the newest iPad mini 4, which is 8 inches. It is...hands down...the best of all my tablets. Blazing fast, amazing display, excellent speech to text capabilities...the cream of the crop. Best Buy often has it on sale for $299. My least favorite tablet is the cheapo $50 Amazon Fire...painfully slow, muted colors, no speech to text...I actually pretty well hate it. lol

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Ainhisg · ‎03-09-2010

@Yesyesyes568 wrote:
Oh don't say u hate it. I just ordered 2 fires from the other place to try out the alexa in it. It's built right in it. Oh noooo and you hate it. It's a newer version. Too late. Qq
@Ainhisg wrote:
Would you consider an 8" tablet, and if so, what is your pricepoint? I have cheap tablets all the way up to the newest iPad mini 4, which is 8 inches. It is...hands down...the best of all my tablets. Blazing fast, amazing display, excellent speech to text capabilities...the cream of the crop. Best Buy often has it on sale for $299. My least favorite tablet is the cheapo $50 Amazon Fire...painfully slow, muted colors, no speech to text...I actually pretty well hate it. lol
@Yesyesyes568, everyone has his/her own opinion, and just because I dislike the Amazon Fire 7" tablet when compared to every other tablet I own...including the cheap LePan I bought last year from the Q and really like...lol...you may just think the Amazon Fire is great.

That being said, I don't know of one Android tablet that doesn't have text to speech using Google, which is amazing. I honestly think it is way better than Alexa (my Fire tablet updated recently with Alexa) or Apple's Siri. And you can get an Android tablet reasonably inexpensive.

I will tell you why I dislike the 7-inch Fire tablet. This is just my opinion.
Amazon has its own app store called Amazon Underground. Their store does not have all the apps that Apple or Google Play has...for example Kohl's and a local news channel that I enjoy, but I can use the browser (Silk) to go the websites. The apps also don't update frequently, and there is no way to update them unless Amazon is offering the update.

I like the Amazon Fire for a reader (the size is great for that purpose), and that is about it. There is no easy way to turn wi-fi off and on unless you use the airplane mode. I actually downloaded an app that I can use to quickly turn wi-fi on and off. I find the tablet to be PAINFULLY slow. I also find the color to be muted and dull, and there is no way to change the color contrast or bump it up. Another thing that I don't like is that it doesn't have voice recognition. So if you're used to speaking a search term or dictating a Facebook private message or email or anything for that matter, you are out of luck. I knew that when I bought it but did not realize how much I use voice recognition.

I finally sideloaded Google Play to get a bit more functionality out of it, but I have had to customize this tablet so much, that I most likely will not buy another Fire tablet.

To summarize, if you are just wanting a cheap tablet to use as a reader and occasional internet use, the Amazon Fire will work albeit slowly and not with the best display. Perhaps more expensive Amazon tablets are better, but I won't be purchasing any more.