Anyone here familiar with Tablet specifications - need help pls.

[clumsymum]

I own an Acer A210 tablet, had it for just over a year, get lots of use from it, and love it to bits. I'm not into games at all, surf with it, online shopping, read digital editions of the papers, kindle books, zinio magazines (free thru my library yay!!), iplayer radio, audio books - thats about it.
As I say I love it, but it does seem to get a bit slow sometimes - I'm thinking of doing a factory reset perhaps but ...

I've seen an offer for a refurb Acer A3-A10 at a decent price. I've pulled up the spec for it, and apart from the fact that the A3 has a camera on the back (the A210 doesn't), more on board storage, HDMI output and Dolby sound!!, I can see it has more screen colours and a different processor (both quad core tho')

I don't know if the different screen and processor would make an appreciable difference to my experience in use. If not, i might as well save the money. If it is likely to make a difference then I'll buy the A3 and sell my A210 (I might get about £40 for it.

The compared specs are here - I'm looking at the A3 which DOES NOT have G2/G3, just the WiFi version.

If anyone who knows the inner technicalities of these things could give me some pointers, I'd be really grateful.

Thanks in anticipation

[Matth]

IPS = better colour and better viewing angle

BUT - Every review puts the Tegra 3 CPU / graphics (A210) above the Meditek 8125 of the A3

So I'd say it has those extra features, but gives away something on performance ... how much do you want the features

[clumsymum]

Thanks very much, just the sort of info I wanted. No point in paying for extra features that I happily live without, to move backwards in terms of the processor.
Cheers mate

[techguyone]

Nexus 10

[clumsymum]

Originally Posted by techguyone

Nexus 10

Well, apart from the fact that my budget is rather limited for this type of thing, my biggest problem with Nexus is the lack of extra storage.

I know everyone witters on about cloud storage these days but ...
my mother lives in a very rural location with b*gger all by way of mobile signal, and doesn't have broadband (because at 83 she has no desire to join the digital age, no matter how hard society tells her she should).
So if I have to go and look after her for a period of time (or just to visit) I want to know that I can take lots of films/kindle books/magazines/my own music/radio 4 podcasts/etc etc on my additional sd card.
Same applies by the way for a hospital stay (try getting access to broadband in our city hospital)

So to me, an SD card is an important feature.

you want 2 gig of ram whichever route you take.

[techguyone]

Originally Posted by clumsymum

Well, apart from the fact that my budget is rather limited for this type of thing, my biggest problem with Nexus is the lack of extra storage.

I know everyone witters on about cloud storage these days but ...
my mother lives in a very rural location with b*gger all by way of mobile signal, and doesn't have broadband (because at 83 she has no desire to join the digital age, no matter how hard society tells her she should).
So if I have to go and look after her for a period of time (or just to visit) I want to know that I can take lots of films/kindle books/magazines/my own music/radio 4 podcasts/etc etc on my additional sd card.
Same applies by the way for a hospital stay (try getting access to broadband in our city hospital)

So to me, an SD card is an important feature.

Its got USB OTG so just hook up a usb drive, or meenova type of thing, I've got a 64 Gig card connected to mine right now, and I have the 32 Gb model.

It's a seriously nice tablet for the money you wont get better.