>>>Hi All, I'm in the market for an Android tablet and would like your views / suggestions as to which one to go for - my budget is up to £500 so I should have a chance of a good one
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>I just got the Kindle Fire ($199) and while I'm not on cloud 9, I'm fairly happy with it.
>It's a good first step into the Android tablet world which is changing so rapidly that almost anything we buy will be obsolete in a few months.
>As a reading device, it's really slick and I have all my magazine subscriptions on it as Apps.
>I doubt that I'll ever read one in paper form again.
>It's WI-FI, which is fine with me since:
>A - I'm really cheap and hate to spend that monthly money for 3G
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>B- I'm not really into mobility and web browsing on one of those little things is silly, I think. My fingers are more suited to blacksmithing than to typing, and those little touch typing things are a nightmare for me so I wouldn't be sending any mail with it anyway.
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>My one regret is that it doesn't have GPS.
>Otherwise is a good, cheap, first step into the Android world.

The Kindle Fire is getting beat up pretty good by reviewers and early users. Amazon is already promising to make changes. I can understand the appeal of the price point but the thing still needs to work.