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Posted 19 December 2016
SAMSUNG Galaxy Tab A 2016 7" 4G Tablet with 6 Months iD Data Included 8GB Black £119.99 @ Currys / Ebay
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Samsung Galaxy Tab A 4G including 2GB of data for 6 months
I assume has full calling function like other Samsung tablets and can be held against the ear like a mobile phone ; or used with bluetooth
now down to £109
I assume has full calling function like other Samsung tablets and can be held against the ear like a mobile phone ; or used with bluetooth
now down to £109
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73 Comments
sorted byCompletely disagree. The Pixel, albeit a good phone, is massively overpriced.
Huawei are making some excellent handsets these days and they sport some very useful features not found in stock/vanilla Android devices.
Take camera apps for example. The default camera app on a Nexus or Pixel is so basic you can hardly do anything with your photos. Huawei and Samsung's camera interfaces allow you to do so much more and fiddle around with loads of different options. My Honor 8 (and other devices) even allow you to keep the shutter open, so you can create some very nice looking light trails etc.
I've had near-stock Android phones such as the Moto G and Smart Ultra 6, and after owning a Huawei phone I'm amazed at how feature rich it is in comparison to a stock Android experience
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BUT - if you don't care about having a SIM slot, you can get the higher specced Lenovo Tab 3 8" tablet from Argos with more RAM, double the internal storage and a slightly faster processor for £30 less.
If it was the 10" incher i would have been in there..
Very good deal indeed
Heat
4g too!
And new.
Must buy if you need one...
Care to elaborate?, the reception and data speeds in my area are excellent, perfect for a tablet data service!
Could the data sim be used be used in another device? (such as a mifi)
And (sorry about all these questions, but trying really hard to justify buying this to OH) can this tablet with the ID sim be used for tethering?
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What's the difference between disagreeing and completely disagreeing.
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Why would it being Samsung make it cold? Samsung are easily the best Android manufacturers, and were it not for the Note 7 debacle they were wiping the floor with Apple with superior products.
I meant the quality of Samsung's flagship devices are vastly superior to what Apple offer, and also superior to rival Android brands.
Samsung is the premium Android manufacturer (imo, though I really don't think that's disputable), and this was just the point of my reply. Its phones are consistently the best specc'd, well built, well designed, best features, and most sought after market leading Android devices. They were exceptionally unlucky with the battery issue as that Note 7 was a beast of a phone in every category and would have been the best phone on the market by some margin. HTC, LG, whoever manufactures Google's line of devices, Huawei, etc, their flagships are rarely as good. For phones I think you'd have to go back to the original Google Nexus for a non-Samsung leading flagship Android phone, and even that was manufactured by Samsung. Since then their Galaxy (S or Note) lines have always been the best Android phones around. The other manufacturers really need to up their game.
Can anyone else confirm that this ISN'T locked to ID?
It will be unlocked.
The team who responded on eBay clearly don't have a clue.
iD Mobile and Three do not lock handsets or tablets.
Yep, I can second the comment above - mine was unlocked - worked fine with my GiffGaff SIM on calls, text and data. The phone is packaged with the original box inside an ID box with the SIM card stuck to the lid. Discard or ignore it, and you have the same packaging as a factory unlocked SIM free phone. You'll see what I mean once you get yours. Let us know how you get on.
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Hello!
Yeah, mine has a bit of 'light bleed' around the edges of the screen, like you say, most noticeable at boot up - don't tend to see it at other times unless I look for it.
The 8GB is a bit stingy - some apps can be moved to an external memory card through the application manager - but not all. If this gets an update to Android 6, then I believe ALL apps can be moved to external memory, so that issue should hopefully go away. Apparently Samsung have confirmed the WiFi version is getting Android 6 and have started to roll it out in some countries, so it should only be a matter of time before the 4G one gets the same. They are notoriously slow to update OS's on their devices though.
Glad it worked out for you.
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Hey Goopster, thank-you for taking the time to reply to my question so thoroughly - it's very kind of you.
I'm not sure if I / we should be worried or relieved by the 'light bleed' as you called it - as I mentioned aside from the issue itself everything seems to be 'fine'.
Fingers crossed for the android 6 update! Although judging from the end of your message it would seem it's almost certain to happen at some point? As, as I said I'm currently using this as a phone! (or phablet as people are calling them lol). I'm just anti-social enough that it works and am very happy I grabbed one.
Thanks again for the reassurance with the SIM card and all the other help, without people like you idiots like me wouldn't stand a chance!
You are most welcome!
I think the screen showing the colour bleed at boot up is just a consequence of the screen type / design, I dont think it is anything to worry about. I have seen it mentioned on some other reviews of this device that I read prior to purchase.
I would imagine that this device will see an OS upgrade at some point. My previous phablet, a Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0, was always about six months behind every other device on the market as Samsung take some time to tweak their front end to support the new OS prior to pushing it to their devices. I can imagine this will likely be the same with this Galaxy Tab A 7.
All the best and Happy New Year.
Op was given the frank......
I have been with iD for over a year and before with 3. Signal great and speed by my work up to 80-90 Mbps what else can u want. Now Vodafone and only 3G poor but only for a year
I think currys are the useless ones lol
Now I'm broke and stumped. I basically need something that'll be okay for GPS and good battery / not fragile - I'm careful but a total idiot and accident prone. Any suggestions for phones / (or tablets that'll accept my sim card and allow me to make calls) would be greatly appreciated merry christmas all and happy new year.
this is the one with 4g does the john lewis one have 4g
This might help
It doesn't and you can't.
Never had a problem with ID although their customer service could be better but their network is solid.
Try to go abroad, no roaming. No network at all, not even if you want to pay it. Customer service is just useless. I went to the US with 3 and saved almost 5k in a bill thanks to Feel at home. I had Internet and with id my partner couldn't connect with home unless WiFi. To me ID could go bankrupt for the experience we had.