[bluesjunior]

I have just bought a Hisense Sero 8 tablet as a present for my wife's birthday next week. I am pretty PC savvy myself as far as security, safe programs to use etc,etc but have never owned a mobile phone myself as at my age of 65 I have never felt the need. The missus has never been techy interested in the least but I did convince her to get an Android based phone a couple of years ago which she is quite used to. We read a lot and both have Ereaders which we could not do without now. Hers is old and I thought first about just buying her a new book reader but then having read up on some very good reviews on the Hisense Sero 8 I decided that it was a better option as she could also use it together with our 4yr old grand daughter.

I understand how to set up the tablet out of the box to get it working okay, and if it was a PC I would also know which programs to then install such as Comodo CIS, VLC Player, Calibre, Firefox etc what I am unsure about is which apps to use for those purposes in the tablet?. Reading through the install instructions it appears that Google has heaps of apps for most every function but not being a great fan of Google on the whole and knowing that there are certainly better ones available as substitutes for those mentioned above I thought I would ask here if anyone could offer any advice or point me towards a thread or post on this subject?. Thanks in advance again for any help offered, it is very much appreciated.