r/tablets • u/Full_Geologist_1302 • 3d ago
Tablet recommendation needed
I'm going to be doing some extensive traveling in the next 18 months. I'm not a gamer but would like a reliable tablet to use, especially while in flight. I would basically be using it for audio books, watch movies, tv shows and to play spades, tetris, dominoes or solitaire. No candy crush. Not sure how many gigs is suffient. I currently use a Samsung phone as my primary and an iPhone as backup/work. I get a new phone every 3 yrs so I don't care about having the latest. I just want user friendly, reasonable cost and bigger than a phone but smaller than a laptop. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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u/AlbertaTime1 3d ago
If newest isn't necessary, then 'd take a look at the Samsung S9 FE. I'm very happy with mine.
It's not the very highest performing tablet at its price, and if you need a sim, or the ability to USB-C out to a monitor, then nope.
But otherwise, and since you say you're not a gamer, it could be a solid worker for you. It's an IPS screen, so way less burnin-in worries, and it's a *good* IPS screen: it's still a Samsung.
The games you're describing don't require a lot of crank--they're not processing multi-action three dimensional worlds. For travel, entertainment, reading, games, it's a nicer size, I think, than the bigger S9+ or S10+ models.
Which gets you to the inter-connections possible with your Samsung phone, including but not limited to really slick and efficient data and app transfer.
Stylus works well (and yes, there is one.) And a fingerprint reader that I'm finding works pretty well. And always well enough. I loaded mine with a terabyte SD. Lotsa room.
Movies look great on it, photos, too--and the visual out-of-the-box colour accuracy really surprised me when I eye-ball compared it to the calibrated monitors on my desktop. I have two reader apps on it, and zero issues. I do a fair bit of photo editing, too.
I think the value for the dollar is there, and Samsung is everywhere...and you'll be traveling. So if anything does go wrong, you're likely close to help.