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View Palace Passion's Profile Palace Passion Flag Bromley, South London 16 Nov 20 4.35pm Send a Private Message to Palace Passion Add Palace Passion as a friend

Anyone know if Vankyo tablets are any good? I was looking at possibly getting the Vankyo Matrix Pad S20...

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 16 Nov 20 5.10pm Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Amazon tablets are cheap but they do not run on Android so if you need Google Play Store it's not for you.

 


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View Palace Passion's Profile Palace Passion Flag Bromley, South London 16 Nov 20 6.02pm Send a Private Message to Palace Passion Add Palace Passion as a friend

Yes I need Google play store

 


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View martin2412's Profile martin2412 Flag Living The Dream 16 Nov 20 7.06pm Send a Private Message to martin2412 Add martin2412 as a friend

I would recommend the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1" .

I've had mine for about 3 years and it does everything I need it to.

Has the play store and Microsoft package installed, and is quite fast.

Other than that I'm not really techy!!

 

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View Harpo's Profile Harpo Flag Oxfordshire 16 Nov 20 11.18pm Send a Private Message to Harpo Add Harpo as a friend

Originally posted by martin2412

I would recommend the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1" .

I've had mine for about 3 years and it does everything I need it to.

Has the play store and Microsoft package installed, and is quite fast.

Other than that I'm not really techy!!


Yep, I've been looking for one for Mrs H, and came to the same conclusion. They are sold all over the place for £199, so sensibly priced too.

 

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View heff75's Profile heff75 Flag london 17 Nov 20 12.43am Send a Private Message to heff75 Add heff75 as a friend

My advice is buy a cheap amazon tablet..black Friday is only around the corner and you can download Google play..just youtube it. Pretty easy

 

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View Palace Passion's Profile Palace Passion Flag Bromley, South London 17 Nov 20 8.18am Send a Private Message to Palace Passion Add Palace Passion as a friend

Originally posted by heff75

My advice is buy a cheap amazon tablet..black Friday is only around the corner and you can download Google play..just youtube it. Pretty easy

You can't get Google play on amazon fire tablets sadly...

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 17 Nov 20 8.49am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by Palace Passion

You can't get Google play on amazon fire tablets sadly...

I was a bit quick the other day with that comment. Amazon software is a subset of android so with some minor tinkering will work.

It is not preinstalled but you can download it although you would need to have some basic IT knowledge. Just google can I install Google play store on my amazon tablet and it will tell you how.

The other point I would make is Amazon does have its own store so depending on which apps you need they may already be on there.

In terms of money they are always doing a deal so you can pick up a cheap one especially black Friday.

 


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View JohnB's Profile JohnB Flag 17 Nov 20 9.49am Send a Private Message to JohnB Add JohnB as a friend

First question is what are you wanting to use the tablet for?

Secondly, you can load google play store on an Amazon Fire and other devices, you just have to load it from an APK. Takes about 5-10 minutes. Only caveat is that a small percentage of the apps you download from there will be temperamental when updates are done to the tablet OS.

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 17 Nov 20 10.07am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by JohnB

First question is what are you wanting to use the tablet for?

Secondly, you can load google play store on an Amazon Fire and other devices, you just have to load it from an APK. Takes about 5-10 minutes. Only caveat is that a small percentage of the apps you download from there will be temperamental when updates are done to the tablet OS.

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Thank you better put than me.

 


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View CrazyBadger's Profile CrazyBadger Flag Ware 17 Nov 20 10.22am Send a Private Message to CrazyBadger Add CrazyBadger as a friend

Originally posted by Badger11

I was a bit quick the other day with that comment. Amazon software is a subset of android so with some minor tinkering will work.

It is not preinstalled but you can download it although you would need to have some basic IT knowledge. Just google can I install Google play store on my amazon tablet and it will tell you how.

The other point I would make is Amazon does have its own store so depending on which apps you need they may already be on there.

In terms of money they are always doing a deal so you can pick up a cheap one especially black Friday.

I have added Google Play Store successfully to my fire HD, and not that difficult.
However, if you want to use the Kids Freetime profiles, Apps added via the Play Store cannot be Shared across profiles - these apps are only available to the main user.


 


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View Palace Passion's Profile Palace Passion Flag Bromley, South London 17 Nov 20 12.34pm Send a Private Message to Palace Passion Add Palace Passion as a friend

Mainly want it for watching TV and Movies when I'm away fishing (will connect to my phones Internet using mobile hotspot) I need it for storing photos, reading amazon kindle, the odd game, social media etc..

 


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