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Which Tablet for general Skpe, email, music: a near Laptop,

Dec 11, 2012 1:57PM PST

Hello,
I want to gift a gadget to my daughter leaving to Kuwait on Nursing employment to skype call, email, surfing, music and light computing, say writing a message etc. No serious computing involved. A laptop is heavy and unnecessary since no computer is involved in her job/work, but need a gadget with bigger monitor mainly to see others online when call, see movies, music etc.

Also at a low cost, but reliable.
I shortlisted 4. Please guide me the best or an alternative one at nearby price:
1. Coby Kyros 7" 4 GB Wi-Fi Black Tablet $100

2. BlackBerry PlayBook 7" 32 GB Wi-Fi Black Tablet $176.95

3. Coby Kyros 10.1" 8 GB Wi-Fi Black Tablet
prices from $149.99

4. Coby Kyros MID8048 8" 4 GB Tablet - Wi-Fi - Telechips Cortex-A5 1 GHz (Multi-touch Screen 800 x 600 SVGA Display - 1 GB RAM - Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich - HDMI) prices from $114.99

Thanks for the help.

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Item 2 is nice hardware but.
Dec 11, 2012 2:01PM PST

I'd load their Android on it to get more apps.

Why not a netbook and avoid learning why a tablet is not near a laptop?
Bob

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Go with Blackberry Playbook 7'' Tablet
Dec 11, 2012 5:38PM PST

From my suggestion you have to go with BlackBerry PlayBook.As it is a fast, powerful 7-inch tablet with HDMI output, and it is capable of advance multitasking and it also comes with adobe flash 10.2 for awesome experience.

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HOW MUCH FOR THE PlayBook?
Dec 11, 2012 5:48PM PST

How much the price?

But I dont think loading android on a B.Berry is easy, even loaded it will work faulty always.
What about the Coby thing? No good?

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I see you are going to learn this lesson the hard way.
Dec 11, 2012 10:57PM PST

You lead with prices for the playbook in your post and then ask which is odd. But your questions are the same as others that want a PC/laptop and try to get a tablet then in a short while discover they need the PC to load or configure or do what they wanted in the first place.

If you don't have a PC you will learn why folk warned you later.
Bob