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I'm continually impressed by how powerful tablets have become. A few years ago, it felt like the tablet market consisted of the iPad and little else, but now there's a flourishing market of Android tablets.
And they're cheap.
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You can pick up a very good tablet for under $150. Take, for example, the Tabwee T80. This packs a lot of tech into, well, a 10.1-inch tablet.
This is an Android 15 tablet -- according to Tabwee, it will be upgradable to Android 16 at some point -- equipped with a Unisoc T310 octa-core processor, 1,280 x 800 pixels, 178-degree wide viewing angle screen, 6GB of RAM (you can bump this up a further 12GB using virtual RAM to get better, smoother performance), 128GB of storage, and a microSD card slot capable of taking up to 2TB.
This hardware is perfectly acceptable for powering the Android operating system, even allowing it to run Gemini AI 2.0 assistant and pretty much any app or game you throw at it.
The system gets its power from a 6,000mAh battery, offers about five hours of web browsing, or about four hours of video playback or gaming. If that isn't enough, the tablet supports 10W fast charging using the USB-C port.
There's also the obligatory set of cameras -- a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, and a 5-megapixel main camera -- that are nothing special, but perfectly acceptable for social media snaps and video calling.
The Tabwee T80 comes with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse and stylus. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET
The tablet also comes with a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, folio case, and stylus, all of which do the job.
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I've used a lot of Tabwee tablets, and I've been super impressed by them all. They're all budget tablets; the T80 is at the upper end of the budget tier, but it's hard to find fault with it for the price.
Why I recommend this product
The Tabwee T80 is an example of just how far technology has come. You can get what feels like barebones tech -- nothing in the T80 can be considered anything close to cutting-edge -- and yet it works fine.
The display -- the bit that you interact with -- is more than acceptable (and I'm not even going to add "for the price"). It's great in all but the most extreme bright sunlight, and the colors are vivid and bright.
The tablet runs surprisingly smooth. I recommend boosting the virtual RAM to the max because it makes quite a difference, and keeping this low is a false economy.
Taking the virtual RAM to the max dramatically improves system performance. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET
This tablet is super aggressively priced. The retail price of $230 is not bad at all, but right now there's an on-page discount coupon for $105, bringing the price down to an unbeatable $125.
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This tablet is never going to win you any bragging rights, but if you're looking for a tablet that's at home in an office, school, or a home, the Tabwee T80 is definitely worth a look -- especially if you're not one of those people who brag about the specs.
How I rated this deal
As per ZDNET's rating system, I give this deal a solid score of 4/5. The $105 discount being offered at Amazon is about as good as it gets, making this quite unmissable.
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