MoDaCo Recommends... Best Tablet under £200 - Nominations needed

[Guest Mark Dearlove]

This time round on 'MoDaCo Recommends...' we are taking the hardware route as we ask for your nominations for the best tablet under £200. This is becoming an ever more popular category for those not willing to part Transformer Prime or iPad sums of money on a tablet. Have you got a tablet you can recommend to those readers undecided on which tablet to go for?

Make your nominations in the comments - you have until Sunday evening to give us your suggestions, with the voting starting at 9am on Monday.

Please only give a single nomination, along with any reasons for using your chosen tablet.

Get nominating!

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[Guest curtisg2500]

Archos 80 G9. I have one, amazing tablet! ICS update just a few days ago too, dual core, decent screen. £200.

[Guest tilal6991]

Ainol Novo 7 advanced. Great dual core tab for around a £100

[Guest aaww]

Ainol Novo7 Aurora

Gemei G9

Ainol Novo7 ELF

Teclast A15

would love to review some of them for Modaco.

[Guest aaww]

Dear tilal6991. Ainol Novo 7 advanced Is not dual core!

[Guest Christian Edwards]

Advent Vega, a bit left behind now but it was great for us geeks with its Vegacomb ROM!!!!!

[Guest tilal6991]

Really? Oh well I thought it was. Still a great tab for the price.!

[Guest tilal6991]

Just checked the box. It says its a dual core a10 processor...

[Guest dr_nick]

I'll second advent Vega, especially with new VegaICS beta1 rom. NOT great out of the box, but a definite contender once updated (easy to do), and LOTS of developer support online...

:)

[Guest aaww]

Ainol Novo7 Aurora (7 inch ICS 4.0.3 IPS screen with 1024X600 resolution OTG port and HDMI out )<br style=color: rgb(75, 75, 75); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0273438); "><br style="color: rgb(75, 75, 75); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0273438); ">Gemei G9 ([very thin and has a metallic back panel] 9.7 inch ICS 4.0.3 IPS screen with1024X768 resolution 2xOTG ports and HDMI out ) <br style="color: rgb(75, 75, 75); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0273438); "><br style="color: rgb(75, 75, 75); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0273438); ">Ainol Novo7 ELF (7 inch ICS 4.0.3 Normal screen with 1024X600 resolution OTG port and HDMI out ) <br style="color: rgb(75, 75, 75); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0273438); "><br style="color: rgb(75, 75, 75); font-family: Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0273438); ">

Teclast A15 (9 inch ICS 4.0.3 Normal screen with 1280X800 resolution OTG port and HDMI out )

[Guest djgabi]

Advent Vega - Tegra2, decent screen, ICS WIP, 3.2 stable.

the chinese tabs are coming up, the Ainol tablets mentioned above have great price/performance ratio.

[Guest aaww]

tilal6991 never believe chines boxes :)

it has 1 core for the CPU and one for the GPU in one chip. but its the same as a single core.

I have the first Advance and the ELF and they are grate toys and very cheap.

[Guest kaizoku_san]

cool. i am just getting into the idea of getting a tablet. looking for a 3g one with support from the android community.

i'll be following this thread :):)

[Guest tilal6991]

tilal6991 never believe chines boxes :)

it has 1 core for the CPU and one for the GPU in one chip. but its the same as a single core.

I have the first Advance and the ELF and they are grate toys and very cheap.

cool. Thanks for the info. I did think when I used it that it seemed slower than other dual core devices which I've used.

[Guest weeo]

3RD the Vega here.... Also, Expansys are having a 50% off of all tablets sale

[Guest philmein]

another vote for the archos 80 g9 great tab for the price

[Guest leetron1]

if it ever makes it to release...;)

[Guest everett_psycho]

I'd 4th the vega if it was still widely available, mine got bust and I've struggled getting a new replacement. It's a shame the scroll extreme hasnt made it to market yet as I think this could be a contender for this crown following the excels triumph on the gadget shows budget tests

[Guest aaww]

everett_psycho

just so you know the scroll extreme is worse than the Gemei G9 !check it out on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtZQkzm3vHcThe G9 already avaliable and comes with the latest ICS and has Market unlike the scroll extreme that is not even out yet...

[Guest achim w.]

HTC Flyer (I bought it for 229 € - which should classify for the below 200 GPD limit).

Pro

1 GHz CPU

1 GB RAM

Nice and luminous 7" screen with a solution of 1024 X 600

light weight (420g)

solid body

Con

Not really rootable :-(

ICS not to be seen yet

Conclusion

I really got to like this tablet and use it for almost everything now (at least for those things a tablet is intended for :-) - this is

Reading, watching movies, doing my email, facebook, google+, twitter ...

[Guest achim w.]

Oh - and I forgot: I tested almost every tablet below 200 €. This included Lenovo A1 7" Ideapad, Archos G9 7" and some no name products. All of them had something to it which I couldn't get around to really like them.

[Guest doncoop]

Well I'm just going to speak from experience and say I love my G9 80.

Faults aside it's a solid choice for the budget

[Guest Jonas.suchanek]

I just bought the NATPC M009S, although i didn't try the other budget tablets mentioned, i think this one is a real contender.

CPU : A10 1.2 GHz<br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Graphics Processor : Mali 400 MHz<br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Touchscreen : 5 point multi touch capacitive resolution 800 x 480<br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Operating System : Android 2.3.4<br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Memory : 512mb DDR II / 8gb NAND Flash - upgradeable by Micro SD memory card (max 16GB)<br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">WiFi : 802.11 b/g/n<br style="font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; ">Connectivity : 1 x Micro SD slot, 1 x AC Jack, 1 x 3.5mm Earphone Jack, 1 x Mini USB, 1 x HDMI out

So far i am very happy with it...however could really use a custom rom to absolutely perfect it, as i know what a huge difference that can make.

Running my ZTE Skate with the CyanogenMod 7 and loving it! :)

[Guest rebeldx]

HP Touchpad, running CM9 Alpha 2 ...... paid £130 for the 32gb version n its really something special

[Guest leetron1]

Archos G9 80 Turbo with 1GB RAM and OMAP4 1.5 GHz dual core for £199 in 8GB version