You guessed it: It’s the Amazon Fire 7″ tablet, with wi-fi, 8 gigs of RAM, a beautiful 7″ IPS display, a quad-core processor AND a microSD card slot capable of adding 128 Gigs to your unit. Tell me this: Why would ANYONE want to carry something that costs more than 5 times as much when he or she could carry THIS? Get 7 hours of battery life, a video camera capable of 720p High-def video, and real-time tumble tests showing that it’s likely more than twice as durable as the other tablet to which it will likely be compared. In fact, you can buy a SIXPACK of these tablets for less than $250. Christmas suddenly got easier. Order today. Ships in less than a week. (Thanks for the tip, Caleb!)
Where can these be purchased at this price?
There are a number of good tablets in this price range. I bought my Noblis 7.8″ at a major office chain on sale for $50, regular $75. The cheaper models of tablets are worth checking. Mine has similair specs to the above and comes with an adaptor for USB, and has a mini-HDMI slot, which can connect to other monitors/projectors. Not perfect for everything, but very good for most of my purposes.
Can you tell me if I can connect a projector to this tablet?
As you’re being tempted by this, please keep several things in mind: First, Amazon Fire tablets are toys, not for actual productivity usage. Second, Amazon’s version of Android is crippled, so it may or may not run key apps that will actually make this useful for anything other than consuming Amazon content and surfing the web. Third, if you’re getting this for your children, make sure it has parental controls so you can protect them from the multifarious dangers that internet-enabled devices present. Lastly, if you’re eyeing this, thinking, “Hey this can be my next primary computing device,” do not allow yourself to be deceived. While an iPad or higher grade Android tablet can be used marginally well for productivity, you’ll find this one will not fulfill that need. If you really want to have a tablet for productivity, consider a Surface 3. It may cost more, but is a FAR better use of your Lord’s money.