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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Lots of free apps available for this. Either size would be good. Personally like the 7" form factor for the lighter weight. Question is how much writing are you planning to do on this. The occasional short note is fine but if you're doing heavy duty note taking, you're probably better off sticking to pen and paper.
So far, all the tablets I've bought recently (even off-brand Chinese ones) have had no issues with this. I use MX Player (free) for video playback.
Even the Nexus devices support loading via USB. However, I find the protocol used in Android 3.0 and newer - Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) - to be a bit buggy (time out errors, can't rename folders, etc) so I prefer a tablet with microSD slot. That way, I can just load up the microSD via the card reader as a regular Mass Storage device.
Lots of EPUB reader apps available for Android . I use Mantano Reader Premium but the free Lite version works just fine, too. There's also Aldiko, Moon, CoolReader, FBReader, etc.
Not sure if you can buy brand name android tablets at that price. However, I have bought some Chinese tablets for around that ballpark figure. The Ainol Novo7 Venus (7" 1280*800, ATM7029 quad-core Cortex A5 1GHz, $130) and Pipo U1 Pro (7" 1280*800, RK3066 dual-core Cortex A9 1.6GHz, $140). You're taking a big chance on warranty support if you go off-brand, though. |
I am glad that there are Chinese tablets that are able to those apps. Thanks for the info.