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Recommend me a *cheap* Android tablet.
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Would this be any good? I'd really like one that I can use my Wii remote with, so it needs Bluetooth. 
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Do not buy cheapo shitty off-brand tablets like the one in your link. Especially ones with only 4GB of storage space.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/nexus-best-of-google-now-in-three-sizes.html
But in any case, @Iceman.USAF, if you like your 8GB and the storage is sufficient for you, there's no reason to be upset. It's not like it's a weaker device than the 16 and 32 in any way besides capacity. 8-)
I've found a cheap tablet in my searching that seems to have decent reviews except that it apparently can't use the Google app store but instead has some third party generic app store. Can anyone tell me exactly what this would mean as far as getting and using popular software on this tablet? Keeping in mind that I know absolutely nothing about how anyone's app store works.
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For the OP, save up for a good tablet. Spending money now on a bad tablet is a waste. If you are desperate or in a hurry get a (original) Kindle Fire. It has no bluetooth or camera, but everything else is nice and it runs Cyanogenmod 9 (generic Android OS) if you don't mind spending a lot of time doing that.
The 16GB N7 is now priced what, $100 or so above the POS you linked to? Do you have to have something right this minute? Or as @Great Scott mentioned, the original KF is $159 (under 100 pounds your pricing) and will be immeasurably better than than a "Senua," unless bluetooth is the only thing you care about.
Save your money for a week or a month and get something decent. Don't throw your money away on junk where the only review is from some lady buying it for a 10 year old. Just because something is cheap doesn't mean it's a bargain.
The going rate for a Kindle Fire at the moment is about £110 ($176) from iffy-looking ebay sellers, and about £120-130 ($192-208) from anywhere reputable. The HD is about £200 ($320).
The 8Gb Nexus 7 is about £150 ($240), and the 16Gb about £200 ($320).
Still well worth the money. I don't think I'd use the thing OP linked to if you gave it to me for free.
I'm not trying to be harsh, @Zilla360. It just seems like (no offense) you don't know too much about Android tablets and I (and others in the thread) want you to have a good experience and make a good investment with your money. And cheap off-brand Android tablets are a serious pet peeve of mine because they flood the market and confuse consumers and give the whole platform a bad name. Drawback of being an open platform, I guess.
It does not. While the radio and chip are present on some (not all) Kindle Fire motherboards, the Cyanogenmod team hasn't figured out how to enable it. It might be a hardware support problem. That said, I am running CM9 (from the Forums, not an official build) and it's flawless other than needing a 3rd party Brightness control (CM9 controls stop before the dimmest backlight settings are reached).
One note about the KF, it has hardly any RAM, so multitasking can get odd. If I switch away from Opera to another app and switch back I usually have to reload all the tabs from scratch. It's not a big deal for me but would be a pain for massive multitaskers.