Quote Originally Posted by oj88 View Post
Please update this thread for 2022.

I am looking to gift a family member a 7-8" tablet. Based on this person's usage habits, potentially, it will likely be used for video streaming, playing puzzle games, email, social media, and some web browsing. I hear that a lot of cheaper tablets (and phones) are laden with ads and whatnots and it's something I want to avoid, if at all possible.
Sadly, cheap android tablet is not equal to a happy, contented face, more so if it's a 7-8incher. If we were in pre pandemic years it's easy to say get the Samsung Tab A with SPen or get the Mi Pad 4. Those worked quite well new. Sadly both now show significant lag and whoever's using it might just be frustrated. The very low RAM and built in storage they offer are just bad. I agree with what Cathy mentioned above that it's still Apple for tablets. If budget permits, get an ipad or maybe an ipad mini. If you're going Android, at least look into the 10inch entry level models. They may give better performance than the 8inchers.