Learn me Tablets

I'm looking to possibly get a tablet for streaming stuff and watch YouTube more than anything. Looking to not spend a ton of money on one. Is the Amazon Fire the easy button? Also should I get an unlocked one?

From a hardware standpoint, yeah Amazon is the easy button.  But daaaaammn their user interface might really make you regret your choice, its berkeleying terrible

We've got...3 or four. I've got a surface pro8. It wasn't cheap. We have a galaxy tab... something. It works like a big phone. If you're on Android it's good. We also have a...Kindle? Fire? Amazon whatever. I wasn't impressed personally, but swmbo likes it for ...romance novels. 

In reply to ProDarwin :

Check and see if you can still put Google play store on the Amazon fire , then you have access to all the apps which you will not have with the Amazon interface.

And do not worry if the Fire comes with ads , those only show at start up.

I replied on your other thread but yeah I did the Amazon Fire and then deamazoned it removing ads and adding the Google play store.  It does the basics fine.

I have a couple of Galaxies.   The best one is the oldest, an old Tab S 8.1".   it needed a new battery last year, but other than that, it takes everything thrown at it.  I thought to replace with a newer one last year, but I hate it's replacement.  It's slower and more laggy than my trusty old one.   I have a larger one too, but I have that in a waterproof case and it is only for navigation use aboard the sailboat.

I have an old Galaxy Tab A 8" that works well. It has been a great tablet for years and I still use it as a mapping GPS when traveling.

However the Lenovo Tab P11 Pro I recently purchased is a streaming machine. By far the best tablet I've ever owned. Best picture, outstanding battery life, and an amazing sound system in a small package.

Stampie said:

I replied on your other thread but yeah I did the Amazon Fire and then deamazoned it removing ads and adding the Google play store.  It does the basics fine.

Reading this on an Amazon fire. Google play wasn't hard to install, watched a video. I use Firefox for the browser.

I like the small format college ruled yellow paper ones, like so:

Wait, what are you guys talking about?

This is what I've always liked

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

Stampie said:

I replied on your other thread but yeah I did the Amazon Fire and then deamazoned it removing ads and adding the Google play store.  It does the basics fine.

Reading this on an Amazon fire. Google play wasn't hard to install, watched a video. I use Firefox for the browser.

Same setup as me. Do you find that Firefox crashes a lot?  It doesn't crash on my desktop. 

Question for the tablet dorks.  I have a 10" tablet I bought on sale for $60.  It was some off brand that would keep crashing Google Play so that you would use their proprietary app store.  I deleted the proprietary thing and now nothing works.  Eh, $60.

Anyway, is there a way to wipe the whole thing and install a generic version of Android?  I am just looking for something that can run TunerStudio as a car embedded tablet so I don't need to lug the laptop around everywhere.

In reply to alfadriver :

I never warmed up to any graph paper. I like either a unlined white paper, of the white version of the typical yellow pad pictured above yours...

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Back in the day I used to do Cyanogenmod roms.  Seems they are no more and now there's LineageOS as a fork.  Might see if they have a rom for your tablet.