Figured this sub might find it interesting! I think I have the only remaining prototype, it still runs like a champ and has great battery life.

by OrionGrant

29 comments

  1. I loved my Hudl tablet! I loved Blinkbox as well 

    I’ve still got the tablet, it’s long since been retired to the drawer of random electronics 

  2. What an odd look. The translucent case is giving ‘off milk’. But I had a Hudl tablet and it was excellent for what it was – I remember I bought it on Clubcard vouchers and it only cost me about 50p in real money.

  3. It’s a shame they abandoned the Hudl line. They were genuinely good, affordable, looked cool and definitely had a place in the market.

    It was bizarre that they were being made by a supermarket chain but somehow it worked.

  4. Loved the mini HDMI out on the Hudl, so easy to connect to hotel TVs, etc when traveling.

    Mine and my wife’s ended up going to the kids and then I used them to trade them in for Samsung tablets on some offer.

    I had no idea they tried a phone!

  5. The Hudl (particularly Hudl 2) was a great idea and Tesco had a decent tech team at the time judging by the specs-to-cost and firmware. Shame they didn’t stick with it!

  8. I remember the tablet , they were really good value for the specs but I never knew they considered doing a phone. The blunt edges remind me a bit of the Nokia Lumia line.

  9. I wish they’d bring back a proper successor to the Nexus 7, it was cheap and light and did the job. My kids have iplay 60 8 inch tablets and yeah they’re quite pokey for the money but they just don’t feel as pocketable.

  11. Amazon did a smartphone too, a mate had one, it had about 6 cameras on the front for some reason and only one of them was actually for taking photos with. It was properly shit.

  12. Never saw the phone, but my partner had a Hudl tablet which was a brilliant piece of equipment. Affordable, durable, powerful for day to day tasks (browsing, streaming, etc).
    Shame they stopped making them.

  13. The Hudl was amazing. Got me out of a bind when I was in Snowdonia on a trip and a customer needed urgent help fixing some servers. Didnt have a laptop with me, so I went to a nearby Tesco and bought a Hudl and managed to do what I needed to do. Teaco were also good enough to give me a refund 2 hours later. 😛

    Not very powerful, not even premium feeling but when you absolutely, positively needed to SSH to something in a pinch. They were great.

  14. Wow, that translucent case is a serious blast from the past. It’s a real shame Tesco got out of the hardware game because the Hudl was such a solid, affordable piece of kit. I remember getting so much use out of mine for the price. It’s awesome that your prototype is still kicking after all this time.

  16. Since it’s basically just a small Hudl tablet they should have called it Lidl

  17. I had a Hudl, it was a great for a dirt cheap little tablet for a couple of years. Until I dropped it.

    Don’t remember ever throwing it away, reckon it’s in a drawer somewhere hiding in some cables.

  20. My kids had a Hudl tablet, it was great for the time. SD card loaded with Looney Tunes and Peppa Pig, car journeys got a whole lot better after we bought that bad boy. The thick rubber case made it perfect for dropping a few feet as well. It was a shame Tesco cancelled them they could still have been selling well, tablets are still well used by many.

    That phone though… yuck.

  21. I worked 2 days at a company that was refurbishing Hudl’s, I was just grading them and wiping them. Bastards said “see you tomorrow” and by the time I got home I had a text from the agency saying they didn’t need me tomorrow 🙄 I left half a big bottle of fanta there under my bench, sods.

  22. “will be comparable to phones”

    Well… Yes… It is ALSO a phone.

  23. If the screen was upside down when it was starting up, the logo looked like ‘Ipny’. In my own head I called it an iPony.

  24. I had a hudl tablet when I was younger, both mine and my parents one cracked in exactly the same way when charging. Apparently the flaw was well known, not that we got any money back

  26. I still have mine and I wanted to put a newer Android version on it to read comics, but it didn’t work. It’s on its way out anyway

  29. How did you get hold of that? I like seeing people get the hold of unsold tech.

    A guy on windows central once got hold of a Surface coffee table type thing.

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