Bought my daughter one of the cheaper 9 inch tablets last year (10'' Epad) was great for the first few weeks but then went to crap, needed to reload the software several times and then it started chewing battery power so had to be plugged in to use it etc etc around the same time I bought my other daughter a 7'' tablet from a well known brand, suffered the same [censored] within a few days..........
Needless to say the eldest now has an Ipad2 and the youngest an Ipod Get a 2nd hand Ipad instead its money well spent ! And I have the original Ipad still Love it!