On the whole custom apps added to smartphones and tablets are garbage, but Tesco has done less-experienced technology users a favour here: Get Started offers comprehensive and clear tips on how to use the tablet for everything from shopping to gaming, as well as showing some basic security measures and ways to share the Hudl safely amongst family members. However, the most surprising attraction of the Hudl 2 are the bundled apps – or, at least, one app: the ‘Get Started’ one.
It can’t juggle more than a half dozen apps without some slow down, but in individual games it ticks along nicely. All in all though, it’s a smooth performing little tablet. There’s only 16GB of storage however, which means this is never going to be a little media centre stuffed full of content - just a streaming device. The rest of technical specs are above what you’d expect for the price, with not-bad speakers positioned in rather ugly grilles on the back of the device (though this means they boom a little better when it’s place flat on its back) and solid 1.8 GHz processor running a relatively unencumbered Android KitKat 4.4.2. We would have liked it just a little brighter, however, and you’re not going to get much used out of it in direct sunlight – it’s an indoors pet.
It’s far from exceptional as far as displays go but it’s a hell of an improvement on the first Hudl (with a meagre 1400 x 900 resolution) and browsing the web and watching films is sharp and enjoyable. The screen itself has been expanded to 8.3-inches and is now fully HD with a resolution of 1920 x 1200. There’s buttons round the edges for power and volume (which are a little too small to be easily found) as well as a Micro USB point for charging and loading media and a MicroSD slot for expanding the memory (left inexplicably without a cover). Like the first Hudl, the Hudl 2 has a soft plastic back that sits comfortably in the hand but that’s a bit of a demon for picking up smudges. Simply put it’s the best budget Android tablet available and perfect for both families and first-time users. The Hudl 2 is undeniably that something.įollowing in the footsteps of last year’s surprise hit Hudl (750,000 units sold), the Hudl 2 is £10 more expensive than its predecessor but offers a bigger, better screen, smoother design and a more powerful processor.
"It’s got a stupid name and it’s made by Tesco." When the two biggest criticisms about a £129 tablet are dismissible as just snobbishness then you know you’ve got something special on your hands.
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