Picture the scene: you're checking your emails on a shiny new device (worth two months pay) and from nowhere, a greasy-fingered infant is screaming at you to play. Reluctantly, you pass it over, weight-watching your own hands cup the air beneath any quiescent drop zone, wondering how best to explain the jam-smeared calamity to your third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 company. Then you wonder if there isn't a useful, hard-wearing and cheap device you could let them play on without fear of bankruptcy. That's what prompted Norwich-based bedding magnate Andrew Kerry to conceive the AndyPad, an inexpensive, 7-inch Android tablet he could fling at kids. It wasn't long before jealous adults were trying their own version, so a tooled-up edition of the device called the AndyPad Pro was born.



The tablet is currently UK-only and it retails for a lot less than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7 (£280; $345 on Amazon) and Acer Iconia Tab A100 (£273 for the 8GB version; $328 on Amazon), and HTC Flyer (£330; $499 on Amazon). What's more, Verticool, an outfit founded by a man more famous for his Mattressman chain than any interest in technology, believes it can match the war in a fair fight. Do the radios giants have separate to fear from the bargain-basement tablet or does it promise much and deliver little? Read on to find out.

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