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General discussion

Tablet for travel

Jan 21, 2014 6:49AM PST

I travel extensively in S.E. Asia and the cheap MID tablet I have is excruciatingly slow when I use it, even in sophisticated cities like Bangkok. Yet I have watched others with their iPads and Nexus cruising along quite nicely in the same area. Would buying a Kindle Fire HDX 7" help with the speed or is it all about the wi-fi signal/modem where I am traveling? I really only need it for email, web searches and occasional Skype calls.

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It's cheap Chinese, and not up to the job.
Jan 21, 2014 7:06AM PST

The Kindle would be better but Google around.

Dafydd.

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I knew it was cheap
Jan 22, 2014 1:52AM PST

I'm asking about the Kindle because it is faster than most other tablets at 2.2GHz and has 2G RAM. The Nexus 7 which it is often compared to is only 1.2GHz and 1G RAM. The Kindle is also on sale at Best Buy. for $199. My only concern was being locked into a smaller app choice. But since I only really want it for email, web surf and Skype calls, it probably isn't too important. Everything else I Googled around the same price was more like the Nexus 7 in speed and RAM.

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My buddy got that 7 inch Samsung.
Jan 21, 2014 7:07AM PST

Here it's in Best Buy and just 140 bucks. Why go cheaper?