[jon-wood]

I bought one of those £28 Android tablets from Amazon to experiment with for work a while back. The thing was utterly unusable - it turns out the hardware you can get for £28 is just barely enough to boot to the Android launcher. Don't even think about doing anything crazy like opening a web browser, or reading an eBook on it.

[icebraining]

You had poor luck; I've used one of those for a couple of months and all my heavier apps (Firefox, Aldiko and Komik Reader) worked fine, albeit the memory pressure was felt (background apps were immediately dropped when opening a new one). You can easily get a tablet with 1GB of RAM for less than £28, which is equivalent to my Nexus 7 (2012), which I still use every day.