I’m looking for a tablet that I can buy for my kids, so they can watch Plex (connected via a hot spot to my phone) while we’re on long drives.
I don’t need any bells and whistles, nor anything hugely expensive, as they won’t be using them that often.
Does anybody have any suggestions? I was thinking of fire tablets but I’m not sure how well Plex would run.
My kid has gone through a pile of fire 7 and 8 tablets at this point, Plex works great with them after locking down all the Amazon crap possible with parental controls.
Usually end up breaking a screen eventually, some of the older Fire 7s had non-stop wifi issues but the current gen seems to holding up okay. Their cheap on sale so I don’t feel bad when they get busted lol
Id say firetab. They are cheap, they’re gonna be on sale in a week or two during prime day. Cost a fraction of what an ipad does. I use one for reading comics and occasionally watching stuff on it. Works great for that purpose
Awesome thanks. Any suggestions on what fire tab? I was thinking either 8 or 10, is the HD worth it?
What do you use to read comics? I use chunky on iOS.
I use comicrack, I have the fire10HD. I think its great. For Comicrack it takes a little bit of getting used to, but once you have it going I promise you’ll love it, especially if you have a large library. I have like 8000+ comics, so much easier to read. Theres a pretty good workflow someone made on the comicrack subreddit. Note - comicrack isnt available on the play store, but the apk is on the subreddit
We bought two FireHD 8 Kids, which come with a great case, charging over USB-C and the ability to put a MicroSD card. Considering how cheap MicroSD cards are, it made sense to pick a 128GB for each and download as many movies through Plex as we could into it.
Nice! Thanks! How does Plex downloads work on them? It’s terrible on the iPad I have, very rarely works.
I had some issues initially, but it’s been smooth sailing since.
Get them the basic iPad if your budget allows. I’m using Plex on my windows + android phone + iPad. I enjoy Plex on my iPad tbh.
They are currently using an iPad, albeit a VERY old one (older than them haha), but two new ones would be overkill as they’d hardly use them - only for long journeys.
