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We have a forth coming flight soon with our 18 month daughter, and we are not looking forward to it, its 4 hours! She can't sit still to save her life, so things are needed to keep her quiet. We have the list down to 2 items to satisfy her.

The first one being hard drugs, which I fear may be frowned upon.

The other being a cheap disposal tablet (not of the drug variety) with endless episodes of Justins house and Show me Show me!!

So my query is, will this one suffice, and bets on whether it will last a 2 week holiday!

Make sure it has access to the Google Play app store (I suspect it hasn't) or you won't be able to put any mindless, but gratifyingly time-consuming interactive, educational games on it.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00BI065UA/ref=noref?ie=UTF8&psc=1&s=computers

That one, although horrendously more expensive, at £40, does state Google Play Store included. Hhmmmm, pay cheap get crap, but spend £40 and get an Ipad replacement!!

You can search and download the app. It's a bit tome consuming, but it cam be done.

I'd say go for it, it will almost certainly do the job you want it to. But be prepared to have rules about how long she spends on it - or you'll never see her without it!
Oh, and when she's a bit older, make sure she can't buy apps or make in-app purchases using the card the google play account is registered to...

We got our money back, but my stepson racked up £400 in around a week.

I went for the second one, but an odd experience on Amazon.

I dropped a purple one into the basket at £39.99, then wondered if any of the others were cheaper, so added all colours to the basket and the white went in at £34.99. So I deleted the rest and paid £34.99 for white.

After purchasing the white colour then went up to £44.99, but I checked my invoice and it clearly states £34.99 and now the white is back to £39.99

Thanks for the advice Jim, will watch out for that, on the assumption it lasts more than 2 weeks!

Before you take the plunge: average battery life on that tablet is down as 3 hours. That doesn't sound so good - not on a 4 hour flight!

I saw that, but hopefully she will be happy with some colouring, eating and talking to the air staff as well..

No problem. Nonetheless, if you haven't bought it yet, it might be worth looking for one with a slightly better battery life just to give you some margin! I'm sure your little bundle of joy has already impressed you with her intuitive tablet skills, so expect it to be a very popular distraction!

Granddaughter's experience of tablets:

Pikapau (woody woodpecker in Portuguese) works on daddy's iphone.
Pikapau works on daddy's islab.
Pikapau works on mummy's desktop.
Pikapau works on opa's (me) fondleslab.
Pikapau works on opa's laptop.
Pikapai doesn't work on opa's ebook... WAAAAAAAAAH!

I have a similar cheap tablet, works ok but can be a little slow at times and the battery life isn't good. That said, it plays video fine, plays games fine, the net browser isn't great but works. I use mine mainly for reading the news and google currents.

An alternative to help poor battery life is a battery booster, which does what it says on the tin...i bough a great one from amazon for about £18 and it's a god send

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Well this turned up today, and I can honestly say its the best £30 I have ever spent.

its not that quick, but it does all we needed and best of all the daughter started laughing immediately as she played a game with balloons and a pin and it kept her quiet for a good 20 minutes.

We may be onto a winner - just got to hide it for 2 weeks now from her

Brilliant! Always nice when a plan comes together!

I have a 'nomad' tablet at home which I've been dying to give away to someone. Battery life is something like 40 minutes. If you leave it to its own and not touching it.

It's an easy money maker to be honest. Give it to someone with an added £10 to take it from you. He will come back the next day and offer an added £20 to take it back from him.

Shame you're not in the UK!

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/trade-an...e-tesco-1610548

Pretty sure it won't classify as a 'tablet'. Otherwise - if you cover shipping costs it's yours. Doesn't come with a UK plug though.