The $50 Amazon tablet for the non tech inclined?

[PeoplesElbow]

Anyone have any experience with the $50 amazon fire tablet? What did you think?

Now it is an idea as a gift for someone who doesn't have a smart phone, has a hard time with a regular cell phone, can send and receive emails but attachments are a mystery and can't set up the wifi themselves but has expressed interest in my tablet before.

I'm thinking about the cheap one just incase it sits and gathers dust.

 

[hitchicken]

Even cheaper...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/iRULU-8GB-e...556682?hash=item51b7d53e8a:g:J~0AAOxyRhBS1ffc

Only $39 with wifi, keyboard & carrying case. I have 2. Only scary part: it's from China and pronounced "I rule you".

 

[PeoplesElbow]

Even cheaper...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/iRULU-8GB-e...556682?hash=item51b7d53e8a:g:J~0AAOxyRhBS1ffc

Only $39 with wifi, keyboard & carrying case. I have 2. Only scary part: it's from China and pronounced "I rule you".

My personal tablet is a more generic android, I was thinking the Amazon Fire would be more beginner oriented, the main idea is for someone that would be an absolute beginner and just doesn't "get" things like that.

There is also a rumor that they will be $35 on black friday.

 

[SamSpade]

Anyone have any experience with the $50 amazon fire tablet? What did you think?

Now it is an idea as a gift for someone who doesn't have a smart phone, has a hard time with a regular cell phone, can send and receive emails but attachments are a mystery and can't set up the wifi themselves but has expressed interest in my tablet before.

I'm thinking about the cheap one just incase it sits and gathers dust.

It may be the same one I bought my children years ago (basically). If it is, it's a GREAT child's toy. Mine subscribe to Amazon Free Time which has endless games, videos and books for a single monthly fee. Our biggest problem is restricting their time online, because they're always playing with them, for two years running.

 

[GURPS]

If it is, it's a GREAT child's toy.

I finally was done with my iPad 2 and gave it to my wife
... our daughter is on it most of the time watching mind craft videos on youtube


she loves it

 

[Hodr]

Even cheaper...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/iRULU-8GB-e...556682?hash=item51b7d53e8a:g:J~0AAOxyRhBS1ffc

Only $39 with wifi, keyboard & carrying case. I have 2. Only scary part: it's from China and pronounced "I rule you".

Don't do this. This tablet has a very poor screen and an atrocious processor. Allwinner does make one or two decent CPUs (for media boxes mostly), but the majority of them are craptacular and this one is bottom of the barrel.

It's worth the 10 bucks to get a product with a better screen, much better processor, more ram, newer operating system, and 100x better support from Amazon.

 

[migtig]

I think it's a great idea. My husband started me out with a Nook for very similar reasons. Once I got more comfortable and found I was using it a lot, I told him I was ready to advance and went to fancier tablet with the nook and kindle apps. I hear good things about the Kindle Fire.

However, he made it easy for me too. He didn't just hand it to me and say here you go. He set up things, like adding my favorite apps and setting it up with the home Wi-Fi, so it was pretty much effortless for me.

 

[lucky_bee]

ehh...I think it's the same Kindle Fire I got my mother a few years back. She's incredibly tech challenged. I had just moved down here so I was only able to give her a preliminary set up before heading home after xmas. She just barely got by with it, but bc "I" wasn't around to show her how to use it, she got frustrated and bought herself an iPad (she has a history of having me set everything up for her, me showing her how to use everything, and then promptly forgetting) I played with it a little this summer on a visit home bc I'd forgotten my own iPad here. It was pretty decent, but I struggled being an apple user for 10+ years. I just used it to surf the internet and read a few books she'd already downloaded on there. I didn't touch email so I can't comment on that.

If you're around the help them get acquainted with it, more like how migtig's husband helped, I'd say it'd be worth to try for $35-50.

 

[Chuckt]

Anyone have any experience with the $50 amazon fire tablet? What did you think?

Now it is an idea as a gift for someone who doesn't have a smart phone, has a hard time with a regular cell phone, can send and receive emails but attachments are a mystery and can't set up the wifi themselves but has expressed interest in my tablet before.

I'm thinking about the cheap one just incase it sits and gathers dust.

I ordered one and I'll probably get it on Monday. I was amazed they sold out at Best Buy.
I had a Kindle Fire HDX before and returned it because it would pause unless I had it plugged in all of the time so I guess that the battery couldn't supply constant power to the unit and it was refurbished. I do read the reviews and I can't always figure out what skill level people have but people are having problems so if you aren't tech inclined, you really need someone tech inclined to set it up.

Here is the deal. My first Kindle is pretty much unusable because the first Kindle Fire ever is slow so I have upgraded them.
I bought it because it can accept an SD card and I feel that would allow me to have a tablet that is more computer like. If you've ever tried to get content off of your Kindle before, the SD card is a real blessing because I wouldn't have bought it without the SD card capability.
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The thing I like about the Kindle is that I've never been able to break one and they've been dropped several times.

I'm guessing it isn't any different than any other kindle except that it has the latest operating system and more advanced features.

I heard you can chat with another kindle user face to face using the camera on the kindle but I'm not sure if I want this feature or not.

I do put parental locks on my kindle to keep myself from accidentally buying stuff. I wish there were parental locks to keep books from being deleted and so forth.

 

[Chuckt]

I got the new $50 throw away Kindle Fire and I love it. I bought it on a Black Friday sale for about $35.
There is a learning curve for some things. I set a pin for my device to protect against accidental purchases and somehow locked myself out of the browser for a while and I couldn't figure out how to get back in for a while but I figured it out. Even though I have had a Kindle for years, the commands are something you have to learn. I think this is one of their better Kindles yet. I still think the product has some growing to do and I thought the browser was a little slow but this is decent.