Design and features
There's a micro HDMI connection that allows you to view content from your Hudl directly on your TV -- not quite so common on tablets these days -- though you'll have to shell out for the necessary cable, as one is not supplied. There's also a brace of 1W stereo speakers on the back, which makes for a pretty decent sound if you're sharing and don't want to plug in your headphones (again, none supplied).
The seven-inch multitouch screen offers 1,440x900 pixels, which won't trouble the high-enders, but with 242ppi it's a perfectly good resolution for this price point. It's a little sharper than the similarly priced Asus MeMO Pad HD 7 (1,280x800) for instance, and well ahead of the slightly cheaper Argos MyTablet (1,024x600) and it's certainly more than sharp enough for good movie watching and web browsing.
Processor and Android
A quad-core processor under the hood clocked at 1.5GHz and backed by 1GB of RAM. It's not up there with the best and there are often brief delays when opening apps and browsing websites. In our usual AnTutu benchmark test it clocked up a perfectly respectable score of 18,960 (a little behind the recent Nexus 7's 20,491) but it was able to at least run any of the HD games we tried it with. Still, if you like speed from your tablet, this probably isn't the one for you.
Photography
There's a three-megapixel camera on the back and a two-megapixel one on the front for video calls. The better camera is pretty low quality, even for a budget tablet, and the picture quality is so-so at best. However, the two-megapixel front-facing camera is arguably the more important of the two on a tablet, since it's the one you'll be using for video calls via Skype and other apps, and it's considerably better than you'd expect at this price, where too many tablets all too often try to palm us off with a VGA or sub-megapixel model.
