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This is HudlвЂ™s main advantage вЂ“an unobstructed and unfiltered Android experience directly from Google, without manufacturerвЂ™s intrusions you will face in Samsung, Amazon or Acer. However, when it comes to the charging, it is going to take you some three hours to get the battery fully charged.ДЄndroid 4.2.2 Jelly Bean is not the latest OS, but rather current as of now, and Hudl is one of the few tablets that run on almost stock Android, besides GoogleвЂ™s Nexus. Tesco claims 9 hours in video mode, and it seems to be true, with the tablet lasting as long as two days of moderate usage that included some light gaming, photo shooting and browsing.

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Now, speakers leave a lot to desire, so a pair of earphones packed in the box come really handy when you choose to watch a movie or listen to some music. In fact, camera is the weakest link in Hudl, with a 3.2 megapixel producing rather poor quality.

Image quality is just not fantastic, with white balance disproportionate and images do not come out sharp or perfectly clear. With a solid 242 pixel density, which of course does not stand up against AppleвЂ™s products, nor Samsung or Nexus 7. In terms of display, Hudl does not stand up against Nexus 7, but offers a decent 1440Г—900 resolution, which is quite sharp and can easily compete with, say, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2.7.0. However, it would have been a welcome addition to have a micro-HDMI cable in the box, but you will have to buy it separately if you need one. The top edge also holds a Micro-HDMI port to plug the Hudl into your TV, a feature that clearly was designed with the aim to promote TescoвЂ™s Blinkbox. The microSD can potentially expand the storage to 32GB overall, which means Hudl can potentially last a long time and store a lot of your multimedia files. Tesco has a micro USB charger and microSD card slot, in addition to the in-built 16GB, of internal storage, which is a surprise for a budget tablet. Overall, the menu is intuitive and very easy to use вЂ“ perfect for tablet beginners, and children. They are quite unobtrusive but may lack immediacy of a home button in iPad mini. You will be able to go back to the home screen, back up, or go to the multi-tasking menu with the help of the three controls.

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Tesco also chose not to integrate the physical home button, resorting to standard Android context software controls. Nevertheless, Tesco Hudl is aimed at first-timers with tablets so it wonвЂ™t be a problem for those who do not have any expectations as to where those hardware buttons should be located. The keys are plastic but seem solid and clickable. However, in portrait view it might result rather tricky to get to those key, and truth be told, we still do a lot of things in the portrait view. The design solution comes handy when you need to wake the device or adjust the volume in the landscape mode.

The landscape dominance is reflected in an unusual positioning of the camera and hardware buttons вЂ“ the camera is in the middle of the bezel while the buttons are located along the top right edge, if you align the tablet in landscape view. Tesco designed Hudl to be predominantly used in landscape view, which makes perfect sense since most of the gaming, browsing and watching is done in landscape view. It is not exclusively stylish mainly due to its shiny plastic on the edges, and it is rather heavy, too, weighing good 370g. Hudl has a solid built despite its price вЂ“ the deviceвЂ™s body has very much the same class as Kindle Fire HD, with a plastic front and rubberized back.

With a budget Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, a 7 inch display and a 1.5GHz processor, Hudl has made its way to consumersвЂ™ Christmas presents threatening to outsell GoogleвЂ™s pace-setting tablet. Tesco Hudl comes at 119GBP in the UK, which is a significant 80GBP cheaper than Nexus 7. Tesco came along before Christmas, and while it is not a wow tablet, it certainly undermines the success of GoogleNexus 7 and Amazon Kindle Fire HD in price, setting a new trend to make tablets even cheaper.

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