![]() ![]() New voice recognition software is a boon to those who find typing difficult. The fact they are always on – albeit in sleep mode – and can be fired up in a second to end the dispute over which actor starred in a certain film, has helped make them indispensable. It's not much of an exaggeration to say many users would rather go on a near starvation diet than hand their tablet over, so dependent upon them have they become! If you haven't tried a tablet, it's worth giving it a go. The smallest iPad Mini is £249 at Currys, though you can get £20 cashback, as long as you don't forget to claim it afterwards. Technology comparison website 's expert Gareth Beavis says that pound-for-pound it is the best – and it's hard to disagree. However, if you can find an extra £60 – and we'd urge you to, if you can – the Google Nexus 7 (from £180) is Money's top pick. In the £120 price bracket, the one to go for – somewhat to our surprise – is the Tesco Hudl. But having weighed them up, we reckon the sub-£200 market will, for most people, come down to a choice of two. ![]() We also talked to the experts who live and breathe this stuff.Īiming at the lower end of the market, we have been largely restricted to seven-inch screens, and ones that use Wi-Fi rather than connecting via a phone network. We've weighed them up, checked the camera quality and surfed a thousand websites, so you don't have to. With the countdown to Christmas starting in earnest, Guardian Money decided to check out the non-Apple market – ie, the options for those who don't have the minimum £250 it costs to get your hands on the smallest iPad. Then there's email that you can talk to rather than type, a web-surfing experience done by touch rather than mouse, and more games and apps than you can shake a stick at. Want to catch up on a missed TV programme or watch a downloaded film on the go? It's now possible, and on a screen whose quality puts many TVs to shame. Once dismissed as a product that would never catch on, tablet computers have transformed the way households access the internet and entertain themselves.
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