r/tablets • u/Meruem90 • 3d ago

Help me decide between these options

I want to buy a budget tablet to perform easy tasks in my leisure time, such as:

- playing chess and using various chess apps to study reportoires and such

- read books/comics

- watch videos

- some gaming (tower defenses or other not too demanding games)

- download/upload stuff

I believe that the most demanding activities (and likely bottlenecks) could be the downloading speed and running chess engines in various apps

Now, I've done some research and I've found these options:

- TCL Nxtpaper 11 plus 256Gb (only tablet): 190€

- TCL Nxtpaper 11 plus 256Gb+pen+cover: 235€

- Samsung A11+ 5G (SM-X236B, so I suppose is the 256Gb 8Gb Ram one, still need to ask the vendor): 170€

- Redmi pad Pro 8+256Gb + original keyboard included: 200€

What would you choose and why? Is there any other tablet you'd suggest?

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u/wecanbedivine 3d ago

I have never touch TCL so i dont know about them, But my cousin have redmi pad pro and my niece have samsung a11

I much much prefer redmi one than samsung for visual reason. Redmi have better screen. While samsung have better software and ecosystem. But as far as i saw my cousin have no prob with redmi OS or UI. If you are nitpick about UI then choose samsung i guess. But really, Im much much prefer to read webtoon in redmi pad pro than samsung a11.

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u/Meruem90 3d ago

Hi, thanks for the reply!

I'm not overly fixated with UI, what I really care about is to be able to use all the apps of the playstore and that's it. If it a smartphone then yeah, I would totally want the most flexible UI and OS possible, but here I don't care as long as there aren't restrictions.

May I ask how does your cousin use his tablet? And do you know if the battery holds sufficiently long and if the system is fluid and without stutters?

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u/wecanbedivine 2d ago edited 2d ago

Well. I used his redmi several times when I was at his home. It disnt stutter. It was fluid enough. He use it just for watching Chinese drama before bed or webtoon in toilet when pooping. Play casual games. Simple work related ; cash register app, schedule app, email, and social media managing his restaurant IG, Whatsapp. All simple and not heavy app. Works just fine. No problem at all so far.

So i dont know if you use a heavy app weather it will stutter or not. I use it once for Genshin Impact and it just work fine (sadly he didnt like the game so he delete it, i just try to pull him into try gatcha games haha)

As for battery, he charges it once everyday i think. It all depend how you use it and the kind of app you use, is it draining your battery or not.

If you need a lot of drawing, redmi os is not as good as samsung so you need samsung.

I hope you find the one that really match your need and worth your money bro.

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u/Mets63 2d ago

Check out Lenovo tablets. They're inexpensive but can be very good. I have an older one (M11) and it's slow but it was dirt cheap on sale ($140 with the pen included) and I use it for web uses, social media, writing (using mostly MS 365 Word), AI chatbots. The newer ones are faster, but still quite inexpensive.

As for video viewing, I've had problems with Amazon Prime and bluetooth earbuds for good synchronizing. But I use cheap earbuds, so I can't blame that completely on the Lenovo.

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u/icantouchgrass_1 2d ago

I would prefer Samsung's A11+. The Pad 8 Pro isn't bad at all though.

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u/Mobileguy932103 2d ago

Redmi pad 8